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Yemen's Worst Locust Outbreak In Years
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 2:12 pm | United Nations
Yemen faces its worst outbreak of crop-devouring locusts in nearly 15 years, a United Nations agency warned today, urging action to head off the damage. More >>
Secretary-General Pledges ‘Green’ UN Complex
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 2:11 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today pledged that the United Nations will help safeguard the planet by making its own in-house practices more climate-neutral and environmentally sustainable. More >>
Opening Of War Crimes Trial Of Charles Taylor
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 2:11 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed today’s start of the war crimes trial of the notorious former Liberian president Charles Taylor, calling it “a significant move towards peace and reconciliation” in West Africa. More >>
Dispatching UN Political Chief To Horn Of Africa
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 2:10 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today that he will dispatch the world body’s top political officer to the Horn of Africa to discuss how to bring peace and stabilization to troubled Somalia. More >>
Ki-Moon Urges Students: Join Climate Change Fight
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 2:06 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on students around the globe to join the fight against climate change. More >>
Donation Facilitates Aid Flights In Somalia
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 2:04 pm | United Nations
A $3 million contribution from a United Nations humanitarian fund will help facilitate the delivery of badly needed aid to Somalia, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today. More >>
Audit Finds No Large-Scale Diversion Of Funds
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 2:02 pm | United Nations
An external audit of the United Nations’ activities in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has found there has been no large-scale or systematic diversion of UN funds provided by the world body’s agencies to help in humanitarian relief ... More >>
Child Hunger Costing Central America Billions
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:45 pm | United Nations
Child undernutrition cost the economies of Central America and the Dominican Republic almost $7 billion – or 6.4 per cent of the region’s gross domestic product (GDP) – in 2004, according to a new joint study by two United Nations agencies today. More >>
Almost One Quarter Of Somalis Fleeing now Returned
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:45 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today said that nearly a quarter of the hundreds of thousands of people who fled deadly fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu since this February have gone back but insecurity is preventing more returns. More >>
45 Sites Nominated for UNESCO World Heritage List
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:43 pm | United Nations
The committee that oversees requests for inscription on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s World Heritage List will have 45 nominated sites to choose from when it meets for its annual session next month in New Zealand, ... More >>
Bosnian Serb Indicted On Genocide Charges
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:42 pm | United Nations
A Bosnian Serb ex-army officer and aide to the notorious army chief Ratko Mladic was today handed over to the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to face genocide charges over the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys ... More >>
Timor-Leste: UN Official Predicts Peaceful Poll
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:42 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste UNMIT today voiced optimism that upcoming parliamentary elections there will be as peaceful as the recent presidential ballot, and predicted the possible need for a coalition government. More >>
UN Launch Global Race For Safe Water
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:37 pm | United Nations
Two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank today helped kick off a race to bring safe drinking water to 20 million people by 2015 at a United Nations Headquarters ceremony that included live world music and students that have raised funds for water ... More >>
Millions Suffering From Mental Illness
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:36 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Health Organization WHO today called on countries to provide a network of community health services to alleviate the hardships faced by the nearly 54 million people around the world suffering from mental disorders as well as those ... More >>
United States Call For Climate Change Summit
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:36 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today praised a call by the United States for a summit of the countries that have the world’s biggest emissions of greenhouse gases to discuss the growing threat posed by climate change. More >>
Western Sahara Disputing Parties Invited To Talks
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:35 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited Morocco and the Frente Polisario to talks, along with their neighbours Algeria and Mauritania, later this month in an attempt to resolve the long-standing dispute over the status of Western Sahara. More >>
Africa To Dominate talk at Security Council
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:35 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council will have a “fairly heavy programme” this month, dominated by African subjects and including a visit to the continent, its President for June said today. More >>
Officials Appointed To UN Children’s Agency
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:34 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today named a former Norwegian development minister and a former senior Somali government official as deputy executive directors of the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF . More >>
Aid Refugees Displaced By Lebanese Fighting
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:32 pm | United Nations
The main United Nations agency tasked with helping Palestinian refugees launched an appeal today for nearly $13 million to help the thousands of people who have had to flee the Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon because of deadly fighting. More >>
Climate Change Raises not only Environment Issues
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 1:31 pm | United Nations
Projected changes in Earth's climate present more than just an environmental concern, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told the Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Panama City, warning of the “serious social and economic ... More >>
