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| Food Prices Posing Risk to Poor Nations Wall Street Journal Drought in some areas and heavy rain in others are keeping world food prices near record levels, threatening the food supply for poorer, food-importing countries, the United Nations' food body said Tuesday. A worker harvests coriander at a farm in the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US and UN condemn burning of West Bank mosque Jerusalem Post COM STAFF AND REUTERS UN envoy: Act is "threatening", Israel responsible for protecting Palestinian sites; US: Mosque vandalism undermines comprehensive peace. The US State Department on Tuesday condemned the burning of a Mosque in the West Bank ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Afghanistan Wants 50 Taliban Off UN Blacklist Voice of America Photo: AP The Afghan government is asking the United Nations to remove 50 Taliban members from a UN blacklist, in an effort to promote peace talks with insurgents and end the 10-year war. The head of the UN committee overseeing sanctions against ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Thousands of IDPs return home with UN help The Nation, Pakistan UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations refugee agency has helped 38000 people displaced by militancy-hit Pakistan's tribal areas return over the past two months, a UN news release said on Tuesday. The latest phase of the voluntary return operation, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Future Of AIDS Response Focus Of UN General Assembly High Level Meeting Medical News Today (press release) More than 3000 people will come together at the United Nations in New York tomorrow for the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS. The meeting, which runs from 8-10 June, will provide an opportunity to take stock of the progress and challenges ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Home News World Pakistan donates $20000 for UN memorial honouring slave trade ... Associated Press of Pakistan UNITED NATIONS, June 8 (APP): Reaffirming its full support for Africa's aspirations, Pakistan Tuesday contributed $20000 for the construction of a permanent memorial at UN Headquarters in New York to honour the victims of the 400-year transatlantic ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Wheat Falls on New UN Production Forecast ABC News By SANDY SHORE AP Business Writer Wheat prices dropped Tuesday after a United Nations agency predicted global production will increase this year. Wheat settled down 1.4 percent while other commodities were mostly higher as the dollar grew weaker. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| France, Britain seek UN Syria vote RTE.ie France and Britain have intensified efforts for a UN Security Council vote condemning the Syrian government's suppression of opposition unrest. France and Britain are intensifying efforts for a United Nations Security Council vote condemning the Syrian ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN High Commissioner rebukes Israel, Syria in protester deaths CNN International (CNN) -- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed concerns over Israeli forces' use of live ammunition against protesters along the cease-fire line between the occupied Golan Heights and Syria, as well as reports that ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Ahead of Palestinian UN gambit, Europe is in play Jewish Telegraphic Agency If he refused, it would have made it seem like he was the intransigent party in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations -- a perilous position as France and other leading European states consider voting for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| United Nations declares Internet access 'a human right' Catholic Online It is so important that the United Nations has declared free and uninterrupted Internet access as a basic human right, "an indispensable tool for realizing a range of human rights, combating inequality, and accelerating development and human progress. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Rudd secures Hungary's vote for UN post Ninemsn Hungary and Australia have swapped votes ahead of September's United Nations vote for positions on the UN Security Council. Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd made the announcement while in Budapest for a meeting of Europe and east-Asian governments. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| UN: 100000 Flee Sudan's Abyei Region Voice of America The United Nations refugee agency says the number of people who have fled Sudan's disputed Abyei region has reached 100000. A spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Fatounata Lejeune-Kaba, said most of them are seeking refuge in Warrap ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| GA chief: Negotiations to reform UN Security Council must start now EurActiv Enough talking: for the sake of credibility, countries have to start real negotiations to reform the United Nations Security Council, said Joseph Deiss, president of the UN General Assembly, in an exclusive interview with EurActiv. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN Admits Time Has Expired For Post-Kyoto Climate Agreement SustainableBusiness.com The United Nations on Monday admitted what everyone knows: international climate talks will not reach agreement on a binding treaty for cutting carbon emissions before the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. The admission, made by Christiana Figueres, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Iraq: UN human rights official urges stronger action to protect civilians UN News Centre A senior United Nations official has called on the Iraqi Government to do more to protect civilians from violence, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported today. Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| UN provides help to relief efforts in flood-hit Haitian capital UN News Centre United Nations peacekeepers and humanitarian staff are helping with relief efforts in Haiti, where floods sparked by torrential rains earlier this week have killed at least 10 people in the capital, Port-au-Prince. At least four neighbourhoods of the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Brazil creates entities for UN conference People's Daily Online Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday announced the creation of a national commission and a national organizing committee for a United Nations (UN) Conference. Rousseff said the national commission will work together with different groups at ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US Should Reduce Funding of UN, Watchdogs Say Fox Business By Elizabeth MacDonald On Monday, South Korea's Ban Ki-moon threw his hat into the ring to serve a second five-year term as head of the United Nations. While he is very likely to keep his post, and has the backing of the White House, he continues to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN-backed court for Sierra Leone war crimes charges five with contempt UN News Centre The United Nations-backed court set up to try suspects indicted for war crimes in Sierra Leone today charged five people with contempt of court for allegedly interfering with prosecution witnesses who testified in two separate trials. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| UN agency hails Panama's decision to join treaties to protect stateless people UN News Centre The United Nations refugee agency today hailed Panama's recent decision to accede to two major international treaties on statelessness, a problem which affects up to 12 million people worldwide. Panama is the first State to accede since the UN High ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Russia Won't Support Libya-Like UN Syria Resolution - Diplomat NASDAQ BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- Russia would not support a broad United Nations resolution against Syria of the type adopted on Libya, the country's ambassador to the European Union said Tuesday. In a briefing with reporters ahead of this week's EU-Russia ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ban Ki-moon urges proper management of marine resources Antigua Observer In his message to commemorate today's observance of World Oceans Day, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon deemed the day an opportunity to reflect on the importance of oceans to humankind's sustainable development. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| WikiLeaks Dribble Out to Other Nations, 'The Nation' New York Observer By Kat Stoeffel 3:02am The Nation is publishing a series of articles based on United States and United Nations diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks, and it didn't even have to wrestle egomaniac Julian Assange for them! The Nation's cache comes ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Senate's Indian Affairs to hold hearing on UN statement on indigenous rights Arctic Sounder US Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, will hold an oversight hearing Thursday titled, "Setting the Standard: Domestic Policy Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples," a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| IAEA should end political disputes over Iran's nuclear program: Soltanieh Tehran Times TEHRAN - The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations has said the time has come for the International Atomic Energy Agency to end the political arguments over Iran's nuclear program that it has been using ad nauseam. Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| At UN, Push For Vote on Ban Without Reform Answers, 5 Latins Ask Time Inner City Press For example, Inner City Press asked Ban if he ever followed up on his 2007 announcement, through his chief of staff Vijay Nambiar, that top UN officials shouldn't stay more than five years in the same position: Inner City Press: on reform, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Research and Markets: The Directory of the United Nations 2011 Gamut News The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| UN holds campaign to fight HIV/AIDS stigma AngolaPress Luanda – The United Nations Organisation (UNO) is due to launch on June 08 a global campaign called "The stigma feeds HIV/AIDS", designed to raise an awareness and mobilisation against stigma and discrimination in the work place. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| White House Supports Ban Ki-moon For Second Term At United Nations NASDAQ By Jared A. Favole, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The White House on Tuesday said it supports Ban Ki- moon for a second term as head of the United Nations. "Under Ban's leadership, the United Nations has played a critical role in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Rise Of The Post-American Empires – OpEd Eurasia Review The United Nations is a potemkin village backed up by the armies of the United States and Europe. If the United States should fall, then its nemesis ensconced in a modernist skyscraper on Turtle Bay will fall with it. The United Nations has built ... See all stories on this topic » |
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