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United Nations Opens Doors to LGBT rights: Extrajudicial Executions ... Huffington Post (blog) This week the U.N. opened its doors to the international lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community with a panel entitled Leadership in the Fight against Homophobia, headlined by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, human rights defenders ... See all stories on this topic »

UN: Financial crisis hit women harder on jobs Sun.Star Sunday, December 16, 2012. UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. labor agency says in a new report that the global financial and economic crisis hit women harder than men in the job market — and no improvement is likely. The International Labor Organization ... See all stories on this topic »

U.N.: Ghana must free Argentine ship UPI.com UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A United Nations tribunal ruled Saturday that navy ships are immune from civil claims and ordered Ghana to release the Argentine training vessel Libertad. A U.S. hedge fund, NML Capital Ltd., requested that Ghana detain ... See all stories on this topic »

Ban expresses deepest condolences to Connecticut Governor following school ... UN News Centre 15 December 2012 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has written to the Governor of Connecticut in the United States to express his deepest condolences at the murders which took place on Friday at an elementary school there, according to his spokesperson ... See all stories on this topic » UN News Centre

UN Bid to Seize Internet Fails but Threat Remains The New American Activists worldwide were celebrating after a United Nations conference, which was seeking to hand control over the Internet to an obscure UN agency known as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and its mostly dictatorial member regimes, ... See all stories on this topic »

Confusion on internet future at UN The Australian Financial Review Eighty-nine countries endorsed the global treaty on telecom regulations at the UN's International Telecommunication Union gathering in Dubai on Friday, but the United States and dozens of others refused to sign, saying it opened the door to regulating ... See all stories on this topic » The Australian Financial Review

UN, EU urge more Syria aid as conflict enters 'new phase' FRANCE 24 A Syrian refugee boy plays along the outer fence of a refugee camp on the Syrian border near the east Turkish village of Apaydin on December 12, 2012. EU and UN aid chiefs called in Beirut on Saturday for urgent funds to help internally displaced and ... See all stories on this topic » FRANCE 24

Civilian casualties are on rise in Afghanistan: UN report Press TV A UN report says the number of civilians killed in Afghanistan increased by 28 percent between August 1 and October 31 of 2012 compared to the same period last year. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released the report on ... See all stories on this topic » Press TV

UN preparing for further influx of Syrian refugees to Lebanon | Breaking News ... Philippine Star BEIRUT (Xinhua) - Visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said Saturday that the international organization is preparing for a further influx of Syrian displaced into Lebanon, the National News Agency reported. The NNA ... See all stories on this topic »

UN court orders Libertad frigate release, to arrive in Argentina on Jan 9 Buenos Aires Herald The UN's International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ordered the release of the Libertad naval training ship which was detained in the West African state of Ghana at the request of holders of defaulted Argentine state bonds. Defence Minister Arturo ... See all stories on this topic »

UN, EU call for fresh Syria aid GlobalPost European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) officials today called for aid for Syrians who fled the violence or have been internally displaced since fighting broke out in the country over a year ago, according to Agence-France Press. More from ... See all stories on this topic »

UN Elections Scams from DRC, Pension to UNCA, Banning Democracy Inner City Press UN Elections Scams from DRC, Pension to UNCA, Banning Democracy. By Matthew Russell Lee. UNITED NATIONS, December 15 -- What is it about election scams and the UN? On December 14, Inner City Press asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's ... See all stories on this topic »

Kim Jong-Un keeps the world guessing Mail & Guardian Online One year after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, little seems to have changed in the country he bequeathed to his son, Kim Jong-Un. Kim Jong-Un's first and only priority has been to cement his legitimacy as the dynastic successor. See all stories on this topic »

Chinese volunteerism more active: UN official China Daily SHANGHAI - Chinese have become increasingly active in volunteering activities on the international stage, a visiting UN official has said. Rebecca Grynspan, UN Under-Secretary-General and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) associate ... See all stories on this topic »

Normalizing China-DPRK relations China.org.cn The UN Charter's goal is to achieve peace, and it respects the sovereignty to secure a nation. But it states clearly that a nation's sovereignty can not be superior to human rights and international security. However, the Five Principles of Peaceful ... See all stories on this topic » China.org.cn

Students confront real-world issues Frederick News Post (subscription) Frederick High School senior Elizabeth Dawson said her five model U.N. conferences have changed her future and taught her why it is so hard to get a group of nations to come to consensus. "It's been a fantastic experience," she said. She intends to ... See all stories on this topic » Frederick News Post (subscription)

UN nuclear inspectors in Iran Eyewitness News DUBAI - Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog were in Tehran on Thursday for talks on Iran's disputed nuclear programme. But there was no sign they would gain access to the Parchin military complex as requested. The Iranian Students' News Agency ... See all stories on this topic »

Nation & World | | The Bulletin Bend Bulletin Syrian official blames sanctions — Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem blamed international sanctions for his country's problems and called on the United Nations to push for lifting the measures, imposed to punish the government for its crackdown ... See all stories on this topic »

War Crimes: Iraq's Red Crescent under Attack. Complicity of US Occupation Forces Center for Research on Globalization The national Chaldean movement issued a statement on 14 December asking the United Nations to change Martin Kobler, accusing him of condoning human rights abuses and diminishing the rights of religious minorities, and described him as the "Minister" ... See all stories on this topic »

Are the new democracies pro-democracy? Boston Globe The Clinton administration helped establish the Community of Democracies, a global meeting of nations held for the first time in Poland in 2000, which eventually expanded to create a democracies' caucus at the United Nations. Other regional pro ... See all stories on this topic » Boston Globe

Congo's Kabila says plans initiative to unite country AngolaPress The United Nations launched a review of the world's biggest and most expensive U.N. peacekeeping mission - known as MONUSCO - after it let M23 rebels seize the city of Goma in November when Congo 's army retreated. "The limits of the approach of ... See all stories on this topic »

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