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New Measures To Protect Endangered Species
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 11:27 am | United Nations
A fish and a small primate whose survival is threatened by their use in traditional medicine, pink coral, rosewood and the perennial issue of whether there should be any easing of the ban on ivory are high on the agenda of this year’s meeting of ... More >>
Discussions on Lebanon Situation
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 11:19 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations official today discussed with Lebanese officials full implementation of the Security Council resolution that ended last summer’s war between Israel and Hizbollah, following similar talks earlier this week with Israeli authorities. More >>
Iran Continues Nuclear Enrichment
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 11:18 am | United Nations
Iran has continued uranium enrichment despite a Security Council call that it suspend such activities, the United Nations atomic watchdog says in a new report, adding that without greater transparency and spot checks it cannot affirm that Tehran’s ... More >>
UN Peacekeeping Must Remain Flexible
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 5:13 pm | United Nations
United Nations peacekeeping operations must continue to evolve in a period of sustained high demand, with the number of blue helmets deployed around the world the highest in its history at nearly 100,000 and still rising and an annual budget that has more ... More >>
UN Bid To Focus On Global Water Crisis
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 5:13 pm | United Nations
Exhausted, sore, sun-scorched, dehydrated, satisfied and proud, three young athletes have completed a remarkable ultra-marathon across the Sahara Desert, running the equivalent of two traditional marathons a day for 111 days over 7,300 kilometres ... More >>
Global Warming At North, South Poles
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 5:12 pm | United Nations
The largest polar research programme in 50 years, with a major focus on global warming, gets under way this week with United Nations support as thousands of scientists from over 60 countries prepare to carry out 220 science and outreach projects in both ... More >>
War Crimes Suspects In Darfur
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 5:12 pm | United Nations
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor today named a Sudanese minister and a militia commander as the first suspects he wants tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan’s conflict-wracked Darfur region. More >>
Victims Of Forced Labour In Myanmar
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 5:11 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today hailed a recent agreement reached between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Government of Myanmar on the establishment of a complaint mechanism for victims of forced labour. More >>
‘Courage’ Of Palestinian Unity Government
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 5:11 pm | United Nations
The agreement to form a new Palestinian Unity Government challenges the international community to “match the courage and compromises” shown by the rival parties with “bold steps of its own,” a senior United Nations official said today. More >>
Nearly 1 In 6 Suffer From Neurological Disorders
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 5:10 pm | United Nations
Up to 1 billion people, nearly one in six of the world’s population, suffer from neurological disorders, from Alzheimer and Parkinson disease, strokes, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy to migraine, brain injuries and neuroinfections, with some 6.8 million ... More >>
Outrage Over Attack On Public Works Ministry
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 5:09 pm | United Nations
Top United Nations officials today voiced outrage at yesterday’s attack in Baghdad on the Ministry of Public Works and Municipalities while Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi was visiting the building. More >>
Critical Funding Shortfall Threatens UN Food
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 5:01 pm | United Nations
Because of a critical shortage of funds, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it would be forced to cut the vital food aid rations it currently provides to around 500,000 of the most vulnerable people in Zambia over the coming ... More >>
Profit At Cost Of Infant Health
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 4:59 pm | United Nations
An independent United Nations rights expert today denounced a campaign by Filipino milk companies to promote breast-milk substitutes for manipulating UN data to protect their huge profits regardless of the interest of a country where 16,000 children ... More >>
Food Aid Ship Remains In Pirates’ Hands
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 4:56 pm | United Nations
Authorities in northern Somalia today arrested four men alleged to be part of a group that hijacked a United Nations-contracted food aid ship, but the vessel itself and its 12-member crew still remained in the hands of the pirates six miles off the coast. More >>
Information Technology Plays Key Role
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 4:54 pm | United Nations
Information and communications technologies (ICT) are crucial in spurring “development, dignity and peace,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today told a gathering of technology experts, activists, corporate leaders and government officials. More >>
Atomic Watchdog: Damaged Art Detective
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 2:23 pm | United Nations
The United Nations atomic watchdog agency, better known around the world for its efforts to curb nuclear proliferation and stop weapons of mass destruction from falling into the hands of terrorists, is helping an Austrian museum assess damage and identify ... More >>
First Report of Human Bird Flu in Laos
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 2:22 pm | United Nations
United Nations health agency officials are monitoring an area of Laos following the first human case of bird flu to be reported in the South-East Asian country, bringing to one dozen the total number of States with human infections. More >>
Plan for Cutting Climate Change Risk
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 2:21 pm | United Nations
Improved transportation systems, tighter building codes and financing for energy-efficiency investments are among the measures recommended in a new scientific report on coping with climate change that was prepared at the request of the United Nations. More >>
80,000 Mozambican Children Displaced
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 2:19 pm | United Nations
Around 80,000 children in the southern African country of Mozambique have now been displaced by flooding after Friday’s cyclone added to the misery of almost a month of floods that destroyed the homes of at least 160,000 people, the United Nations ... More >>
SG Calls for Aid for Guinea
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 11:17 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today calls on the international community to increase its economic cooperation with the new Government of Guinea following President Lansana Conté’s appointment of a consensus prime minister, ending weeks ... More >>
