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| U.N. rights boss calls on Syria to halt "assault" Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - The top UN human rights official called on Syria on Thursday to halt its "assault on its own people" and said more than 1100 people may have been killed and up to 10000 detained since March. Navi Pillay, United Nations High ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| New Move to Condemn Syria in UN New York Times By DAN BILEFSKY UNITED NATIONS — Britain and France circulated a revised draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday that would condemn the Syrian government for using force against its own civilians, but would scrupulously ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN marks 30 years of battling HIV-AIDs pandemic Xinhua by William M. Reilly UNITED NATIONS, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Marking 30 years of the HIV- AIDS pandemic, scores of heads of state and government and ministers took to the UN General Assembly podium on Wednesday to list their country's accomplishments and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Syria Faces UN Security Council Over Alleged Atomic-Weapon Work San Francisco Chronicle June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Syria faces a referral to the United Nations Security Council over a site, destroyed in a 2007 Israeli raid, that the US says was a clandestine nuclear plant designed to build weapons. European nations joined the US today at the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Myanmar still faces deep-seated challenges: UN chief Xinhua UNITED NATIONS, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar continues to face the same challenges it has faced for too long, UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement released here on Wednesday. "The country's human rights, political, social, economic and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN expert criticizes human rights situation in Sudan CNN International Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- Citing the political, military and humanitarian crises of Abyei, Darfur and southern Sudan, an independent United Nations expert on human rights offered a critical view of human rights in the African nation Wednesday. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Native children ask United Nations to probe education problems Toronto Star A host of these problems, found in reserve schools across Canada, are poignantly laid out in heart-wrenching letters from First Nations children — part of a report to the United Nations urging the body to investigate historic inequities in native ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Nepal top police officers charged over UN graft Sin Chew Jit Poh KATHMANDU, June 9, 2011 (AFP) - An anti-graft body in Nepal has charged 34 former and current high-ranking police officers with corruption offences over buying equipment for a United Nations peace mission in Sudan. The Commission for the Investigation ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| North, South Sudan Fights Intensify in Border State, UN Says Bloomberg About 7000 civilians are taking refuge in the vicinity of the UN compound in Kadugli, the capital of Southern Kordofan state, where heavy clashes were reported today, United Nations spokesman Kouider Zerrouk said by phone from Khartoum, Sudan's capital ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN Asks for Privacy for Alleged Libyan Rape Victim Voice of America Photo: AP The United Nations refugee agency on Wednesday appealed for privacy for alleged Libyan rape victim Iman al-Obeidi who has been taken with other refugees to a special center in Romania. UNHCR spokeswoman Sybella Wilkes told VOA on Wednesday ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Internet Access Is A Human Right, United Nations Report Declares Huffington Post Internet access is a human right, and ensuring universal access to the Web "should be a priority for all states," according to a new United Nations report. According to the Los Angeles Times, the report -- which comes on the heels of a communications ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Vice President Mahama Addresses UN AIDS Conference Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Ghana's Vice President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, on Wednesday addressed the high level plenary meeting on AIDS at the 65th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Vice President John Mahama said that in Ghana, HIV/AIDS is a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Intellectual property a real UN right: AFACT ZDNet Australia Last week UN special rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Frank La Rue, delivered a report to the UN stating that there should be as little restriction as possible in the flow of information on the internet, as it was a form of expression. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Nature won't wait for climate deal, warns UN chief Vancouver Sun By Louise Gray June 8, 2011 The United Nations secretary-general has appealed for the world to agree a new deal on climate change, warning that "nature will not wait while we negotiate". Ban Ki-moon, speaking at the Cancun Climate Conference in Mexico, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The IPCC as UN Funding Mechanism Men's News Daily UNFCCC stands for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This international treaty was adopted back in 1992 at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro. What happened there was that the cart was put before the horse. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| San Carlos Apache Tribe voices opposition to Land Swap at the United Nations Arizona Silver Belt New York City – During the 10th annual Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues of the United Nations, on May 25, 2011 as an ambassador for the San Carlos Apache Tribal Council, Tao Etpison, Gilson Wash District Councilmember, met with US officials ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UK, France offer UN resolution condemning Syria Jerusalem Post By REUTERS UNITED NATIONS - Britain, France, Germany and Portugal handed the UN Security Council a draft resolution on Wednesday condemning Syria's crackdown on protesters, despite the risk of a Russian veto. The UN ambassadors of the four European ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| EU Won't Process Carbon-Permits Transfers During UN Log Tests Bloomberg By Ewa Krukowska - Thu Jun 09 10:05:35 GMT 2011 The European Union said its carbon transaction log won't process any transfers of permits between 3 pm Brussels time on June 10 and 9 am on June 12 because of tests carried out by the United Nations ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Explainer: How will Syria crisis unfold? CNN Here CNN correspondent Arwa Damon in Beirut and Richard Roth at the United Nations in New York outline what is happening both in and outside Syria, as efforts to resolve the crisis continue. Arwa Damon: Initially protesters wanted basic reforms, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| United Nations: Size Matters For CSR Sustainable Business Forum "While the sustainability movement has taken great strides in recent years, significant challenges remain," said Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact. "Helping smaller companies close performance gaps, stimulating collective action ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Libya Contact Group Meets In UAE As NATO Intensifies Airstrikes RTT News The Contact Group was formed at an international conference of Foreign Ministers in London in March to offer a systematic coordination mechanism and broad political guidance on the full range of efforts under the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Iran Mission to the United Nations Accepts 21000-Plus Petition Signatures from ... PR Newswire (press release) NEW YORK, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On behalf of Amnesty International, Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis delivered a stack of 21000 petition signatures into the hands of an officer of the Iran Mission to the United Nations on Wednesday ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN rights group asks China to report on missing monks and stop 'disappearances' UN News Centre An independent United Nations human rights group today called on Chinese authorities to report on the fate of some 300 Tibetan monks who reportedly were arrested in April, and to investigate "the ongoing practice of enforced disappearances" in the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN report mirrors PHL ambitions toward self-sufficiency in rice GMANews.TV A United Nations (UN) agency sees the Philippines improving its rice production in the next two years, reflecting projections of the Aquino administration though to a lesser extent. In its Food Outlook for June 2011, the UN Food and Agriculture ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Nations Bombing Libya Ask for Help Amid Strain New York Times Mr. Gates said at the meeting that nations that had been tepid about the air campaign should do more to help carry out the United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force to protect Libyan civilians. An official familiar with ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN to help West African musicians get paid for their creativity UN News Centre The United Nations intellectual property agency today announced a project to help musical artists in 11 West African countries to get paid for their work through a single, standardized registration system. Francis Gurry, Director General of the World ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| UN award for SA's Dr Maths mobile tool South Africa.info Dr Math, a mobile-based mathematics tutoring programme developed by South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, has received a Technology in Government in Africa award from the United Nations. The United Nations Economic Commission ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Libya: UN trip to conflict areas finds displacement, violence and humanitarian ... Modern Ghana By United Nations - www.unic.org 6/8/2011 10:40:24 PM - The United Nations refugee agency said today that its officials in Libya have visited both Government and opposition-controlled areas and found significant displacement of people, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN Small Arms Treaty Targets Second Amendment Rights The New American The United Nations seemingly has it out for Americans' Second Amendment-guaranteed rights as it continues to promote its "Small Arms Treaty." The pact has already riled many gun owners as well as lawmakers such as Kentucky's Republican Senator Rand ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UNRWA: Palestinian unemployment rose in second half of 2010 Jerusalem Post By TOVAH LAZAROFF According to a study fromthe United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees, the number of jobless Palestinians is up to 25 percent. Palestinian unemployment went up in the second half of 2010, according to a study published Wednesday ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Ending Sanctions on the Taliban: A Good Idea The Nation. (blog) More importantly, the diplomat, Peter Wittig, the German ambassador to the United Nations, says that although the list penalizes members of both the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the two groups ought to be treated as separate and distinct. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| U.N. Issues Warning on Food Prices Democracy Now The United Nations is warning global food prices are expected to remain high for the rest of the year and beyond. In a biannual report, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says dwindling stocks and modest gains in crop yields will prevent a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Kati Marton: Lessons I learned from Richard Holbrooke UN Dispatch On Monday, the journalist Kati Marton received the Leo Nevas Human Rights Award from the United Nations Association of the United States. Marton is a long time human rights champion and is also the widow of the late Richard Holbrooke. ... See all stories on this topic » |
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