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Melting Of Mountain Glaciers Accelerating - UN
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 10:49 am | United Nations
Mountain glaciers around the world melted from 2000 to 2005 at 1.6 times the average loss rate of the 1990s and three times that of the 1980s, with much of the accelerated change attributable to human-induced climate change, According to tentative figures ... More >>
Unity Of Purpose In Bringing Peace To Darfur
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 10:45 am | United Nations
Calling the situation in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region “the largest humanitarian crisis in the world,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Africa’s leaders to use the same unity of purpose and partnership with the UN ... More >>
Iraq: Outrage at Attack on Girls’ School
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 10:42 am | United Nations
Two United Nations agencies joined forces today to voice outrage at the needless waste of children’s lives after an attack on a Baghdad girls’ school killed five students and injured at least 20 others. More >>
UN Citigroup Launch Emergency Network
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 9:00 am | United Nations
The private sector pledged further support for United Nations relief work today with the launch at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, of a major new partnership between the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and Citigroup to deliver pre-planned aid ... More >>
UN Citigroup Launch Emergency Network
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 9:00 am | United Nations
The private sector pledged further support for United Nations relief work today with the launch at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, of a major new partnership between the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and Citigroup to deliver pre-planned aid ... More >>
Soccer Star Drogba Shoots For UN
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 8:57 am | United Nations
Côte d’Ivoire soccer star Didier Drogba, currently top scorer in the English Premiership and the European Champions League, has become the latest football great to shoot for the United Nations, where he will seek to score a different kind of goal in achieving ... More >>
UN: Singapore Urged Not to Hang Nigeria
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 8:54 am | United Nations
An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on Singapore not to proceed with tomorrow’s planned hanging of a Nigerian for heroin trafficking, charging that the island state’s Government has failed to ensure respect for relevant legal ... More >>
Global Unemployment Remains High
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 8:51 am | United Nations
The number of people unemployed worldwide remained at an historical high of nearly 200 million in 2006 despite strong global economic growth, only modest gains were made in lifting some of the 1.37 billion working poor living on less than $2 per ... More >>
UN Calls For Saddam's Men To Be Spared
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 8:48 am | United Nations
The Iraqi authorities should suspend without delay any further executions until it is ensured that a fair trial is provided following major concerns over shortcomings in the trial and hanging of former president Saddam Hussein and two of his co-defendants, ... More >>
Ban Ki-Moon Meets With EU Leaders
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 8:44 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today began his first overseas trip since becoming the world's top diplomat, meeting in Brussels with European Union (EU) High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, with ... More >>
Lebanon: UN Force Rises Above 12,000
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 12:52 am | United Nations
The enhanced United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, sent to monitor the end of hostilities after last year’s conflict between Israel and Hizbollah, now numbers over 12,000, the mission said today, while reporting that two of its de-miners were ... More >>
$635 Million for 33 Emergencies Sought
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 12:51 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) today launched its Humanitarian Action Report 2007, calling on donors to provide $635 million to aid children and women in 33 emergencies, ranging from Darfur in Sudan, which accounts for nearly a fifth ... More >>
Trial For Congloses Miltia Leader Hailed
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 12:50 am | United Nations
The top United Nations official dealing with children and armed conflict today welcomed a ruling by the International Criminal Court ( ICC ) to try Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo for war crimes involving recruiting children as soldiers, in ... More >>
Nepal: Concern at Recent Violence
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:22 am | United Nations
Responding to violence in Nepal, which has been the scene of deadly clashes in recent days, the senior United Nations envoy to the country has urged all parties to promote tolerance. More >>
UN to Fully Audit DPR Korea Activities
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:21 am | United Nations
An external audit of all United Nations activities in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) – called for by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon following press reports that funds from the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) improperly went to the Government ... More >>
Regional Involvement Key to Helping Iraq
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:21 am | United Nations
Meeting in Damascus today with Syria's Foreign Minister, the top United Nations envoy to Baghdad said regional involvement is key to helping Iraq achieve stability and national reconciliation. More >>
Violations of Rights in C Africa
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:20 am | United Nations
Around 40,000 people in the impoverished Central African Republic (CAR) have been forced to flee their homes because of summary executions and ethnic violence, a joint United Nations mission reported today, as the world body’s top aid official warned ... More >>
Peace Laureate for Darfur Rights Mission
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:18 am | United Nations
Jody Williams, winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize and co-founder of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, will lead a five-person high-level mission to evaluate the human rights situation in the war-ravaged Darfur region, the United Nations Human Rights Council ... More >>
Transport of Urgent Aids Reaches Somalis
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:17 am | United Nations
A truck was allowed to cross the Kenya-Somalia border to deliver much needed aid supplied by United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to the small town of Dobley where thousands of Somalis are taking refuge from recent ... More >>
Lebanon Focus of UN-FranceTalks
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:17 am | United Nations
The reconstruction of Lebanon and an upcoming international environmental summit topped the agenda during talks today in Paris between United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and French President Jacques Chirac. More >>
