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Solar Energy Plan Poised for Expansion
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 12:09 am | United Nations
An estimated 100,000 people in poverty-stricken rural India are now receiving several hours of reliable solar-powered lighting every night thanks to a United Nations-led pilot project that is set to expand to a number of other developing countries. More >>
Rising Somalia Civilian Deaths Deplored
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 12:08 am | United Nations
Deeply deploring the civilian deaths resulting from renewed fighting in Somalia, the Security Council today urged the country’s Government to reach out to all segments of the war-torn country’s society, while demanding that the warring parties allow ... More >>
International Agreement To Protect World’s Forests
Monday, 30 April 2007, 10:44 am | United Nations
After 15 years of discussions and negotiations on a global approach to protect the world’s forests, countries meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York have adopted a landmark agreement on international forest policy and cooperation following ... More >>
Millions Excluded From Economic Growth
Monday, 30 April 2007, 10:44 am | United Nations
Millions of people, especially children, across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are not reaping the benefits of rapid economic expansion in the region, according to figures released by the United Nations today. More >>
Lift of Ban On Diamond Exports From Liberia
Monday, 30 April 2007, 10:43 am | United Nations
The Security Council voted today to lift its six-year-old ban on the export of diamonds from Liberia that was introduced to stop proceeds from the sale of these so-called “blood diamonds” from fuelling wars across West Africa. More >>
Spotlight ‘Forgotten’ Situation In Eastern Sudan
Monday, 30 April 2007, 10:42 am | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR pledged today to shine the spotlight on the “forgotten situation” in eastern Sudan, where the agency has been running camps since 1968 for displaced Eritreans and Ethiopians, but has attracted ... More >>
Death Of Master Russian Cellist Mourned
Monday, 30 April 2007, 10:41 am | United Nations
The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO today expressed his “profound sadness” at the death of the great Russian cellist who also served as Goodwill Ambassador for the agency. More >>
Ki-Moon’s Meetings With Ex President, Al Gore
Monday, 30 April 2007, 10:40 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today held separate meetings on climate change with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and former United States Vice President Al Gore. More >>
Ban Ki-Moon Heads To Sharm El-Sheikh
Monday, 30 April 2007, 10:39 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon heads to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, next week for the formal launch of the International Compact with Iraq ICI , a five-year peace and development plan which envisages a reciprocal relationship between peace-building ... More >>
Fatal Violence During Protest At Statue Removal
Monday, 30 April 2007, 10:39 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed dismay today after one person was reported killed and dozens of other were injured in the Estonian capital amid unrest after authorities removed a contentious Soviet-era war memorial. More >>
UN Inter-Agency Fact-finding Mission to Fiji
Monday, 30 April 2007, 10:38 am | United Nations
27 April 2007 (Suva) - The UN Inter-Agency Fact-finding Mission to Fiji concluded its consultations in Suva today. The Fact-finding Mission was dispatched in response to the Security Council's call for a peaceful resolution to the situation in Fiji ... More >>
Leadership Capacity Scheme For Poorest Countries
Monday, 30 April 2007, 9:30 am | United Nations
The United Nations has launched a programme to develop the national leadership capacity in the world’s least developed countries (LDCs), a group of States on the lowest economic rung. More >>
Expert Group On Darfur To Hold Meeting With Sudan
Monday, 30 April 2007, 9:28 am | United Nations
The Group of Experts on Darfur established by the United Nations Human Rights Council last month announced plans today to meet with senior Sudanese Government officials next month to discuss how to introduce practical measures to improve the human rights ... More >>
Death Of Master Russian Cellist Mourned
Monday, 30 April 2007, 9:26 am | United Nations
The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) today expressed his “profound sadness” at the death of the great Russian cellist who also served as Goodwill Ambassador for the agency. More >>
Fiji: Mission On Post-Coup Situation Finishes Work
Monday, 30 April 2007, 9:25 am | United Nations
The United Nations fact-finding mission dispatched to Fiji to assess the political and electoral situation in the Pacific island nation in the wake of the coup d’état last December wrapped up its work today. More >>
Further Steps On Access To Justice
Monday, 30 April 2007, 9:22 am | United Nations
Tajikistan must take active steps to ensure there is wider access to justice and it should also allow local and international monitors to visit places of detention, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said today after ... More >>
Call On Sri Lanka To Stop Using ChildrenTo Fight
Monday, 30 April 2007, 9:20 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) today voiced concern about a paramilitary group which sides with the Government of Sri Lanka against separatist Tamil Tiger rebels that the agency believes is not living up to public assurances to eschew recruitment ... More >>
Mortar Attack On Somali Hospital
Sunday, 29 April 2007, 2:36 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today condemned a mortar attack on a hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu, which has been wracked by escalating violence in recent weeks. More >>
Fund Against Disease Seeks To Ramp Up Spending
Sunday, 29 April 2007, 2:00 pm | United Nations
The United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria needs to treble its spending by 2010 to keep up with demand for its financing that is projected to rise around the world, especially in developing countries, the Fund’s Board ... More >>
Strategy For Burundi
Sunday, 29 April 2007, 1:58 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, which was established to help countries recovering from war avoid a relapse of violence, today held talks in New York on its strategy for Burundi, which suffered decades of ethnic conflict pitting the Hutu ... More >>
