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As the country waits to hear the decision of the Minister of State for Environment & Forests on the issue of Bt Brinjal, Kheti Virasat Mission (KVM) urged him to seize the opportunity to tackle the problem of unsustainable and hazardous agri-technologies ... More >>
Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua today articulates his deepest appreciation for the Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) for funding a new multi-million dollar Office Complex for members of parliament in Solomon Islands. More >>
Oscar winner A.R. Rahman’s (Slumdog Millionaire) music for “Sultan The Warrior” film will be released in the near future, according to reports. More >>
The top United Nations political official will arrive in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) tomorrow for talks with senior Government officials after wrapping up meetings in Beijing and Seoul. More >>
The outgoing United Nations envoy in Sudan has lauded recent developments in the country’s electoral process, and urged the parties to the north-south peace agreement to press ahead during what will be a crucial year for the nation. More >>
The United Nations is calling for the traditional age-old truce during the XXI Winter Olympics which open in Vancouver, Canada, this Friday, urging warring parties to lay down their arms as the Games’ ancient Greek founders did some 2,700 years ago. More >>
Below is a description of today's events in the Israeli Supreme Court and how the case of two internationals was heard there. This is a case that will set a precedent for internationals who come to Palestine in the future. More >>
Gender equality, respect for women’s rights and the fight against sexual violence in West Africa received a new weapon in its arsenal today with the launch of a United Nations initiative to enhance cooperation among all stakeholders in the region. More >>
The United Nations said today it is racing against time to bring in hazard-resistant tents for Haiti’s earthquake victims before the rainy season starts, provide sufficient agricultural input to save the next planting season, and raise greatly increased ... More >>
The United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty has granted Chad $19.5 million to finance a water project for nomadic herders in the arid sub-Saharan Sahel region. More >>
Tribal peoples’ rights organization Survival International has appealed to Avatar director James Cameron on behalf of an Indian tribe through an ad in the film industry magazine Variety. More >>
The number of women raped in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where sexual violence committed by warring factions has become endemic, topped 8,000 last year, according to fresh estimates released by the United Nations Population Fund ... More >>
Instead of belt-tightening in this time of financial crisis, resources must be redirected to spur ‘clean’ economic growth in developing nations, according to a report from the United Nations trade agency issued today. More >>
The International Criminal Court (ICC) today declined to confirm the charges made against a rebel leader accused of directing the September 2007 attack that killed a dozen African Union peacekeepers in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, citing ... More >>
Although Pakistan has a plan of action to tackle HIV and AIDS, the country is facing a lack of resources that could jeopardize an effective and timely response to the epidemic, according to the lead United Nations agency on the issue. More >>
The United Nations agricultural agency has launched a scheme for some 600 Haitians affected by the Caribbean country’s devastating earthquake to quickly clear irrigation canals in a bid to save this season’s bean and maize crops, the Food and Agricultural ... More >>
Another international aid worker abducted in the strife-torn Sudanese-Chadian border area has been released in a move hailed by the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID), which has had some of its own members kidnapped. More >>
The leading United Nations official in Iraq today strongly condemned the assassination of a female candidate in the northern city of Mosul ahead of the start of the electoral campaign for the 7 March general elections. More >>
Top officials from 14 small island developing nations in the Pacific Ocean are gathering in Vanuatu today for a United Nations-backed meeting to review strides made in sustainable development. More >>
The final batch of the nearly 3,000 child soldiers who served in the Maoist army during Nepal's decade-long civil war have been discharged and re-entered civilian life today, in a move hailed by United Nations officials as a milestone in the country's ... More >>
Today's scheduled Race 1 of the 33rd America's Cup Match was postponed due to light and unstable winds on the Mediterranean Sea. “It was very light,” said navigator Juan Vila. “We had some puffs up to 6 knots but they didn't last long. More >>
The Attorney General ignores the recommendation of the National Commission for Human Rights while victims commemorate the 21st anniversary of the atrocities. Charges More >>
THE impoverished local people of Biseni, a rustic Ijaw community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, one of the frontline oil and gas states in Nigeria, are currently being harassed by 'money bags' who are invading the area to grab lands. More >>
“The members of Fiji Club of New Zealand (FCNZ) are in an ecstasy since Fiji won the Wellington Sevens final” Alton Shameem JP the Fijian leader and president said today in Takapuna, North Shore City, Auckland the City of Hello Sailor. More >>
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) extends its solidarity to Sri Lanka’s five main organisations of journalists as they begin a campaign of protests to draw attention to the new wave of media suppression since the country’s presidential ... More >>
The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog expressed concern at Iran’s announcement today that it will step up its enrichment of uranium, with the country having still not signed an international agreement on fuel for its civilian nuclear research site ... More >>
Instead of belt-tightening in this time of financial crisis, resources must be redirected to spur ‘clean’ economic growth in developing nations, according to a report from the United Nations trade agency issued today. More >>
Another international aid worker abducted in the strife-torn Sudanese-Chadian border area has been released in a move hailed by the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID), which has had some of its own members kidnapped. More >>
The leading United Nations official in Iraq today strongly condemned the assassination of a female candidate in the northern city of Mosul ahead of the start of the electoral campaign for the 7 March general elections. More >>
Top officials from 14 small island developing nations in the Pacific Ocean are gathering in Vanuatu today for a United Nations-backed meeting to review strides made in sustainable development. More >>
The final batch of the nearly 3,000 child soldiers who served in the Maoist army during Nepal's decade-long civil war have been discharged and re-entered civilian life today, in a move hailed by United Nations officials as a milestone in the country's ... More >>
The global food and energy crises and climate change, and coupled with the financial and economic crises, have eroded economic and social gains made in Africa over the past decade, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report, calling for a stronger ... More >>
MANY IMPORTANT struggles in Israel are calling out to people of conscience. Among others (in random order): The struggle for preserving the environment and the future of the planet. The struggle for democracy against fascist trends. The struggle for ... More >>
The Japanese government breached a series of internationally guaranteed human rights by detaining two Greenpeace activists who had uncovered major corruption in the Japanese whaling programme, according to a working group of the United Nations Human Rights ... More >>
Oxfam is calling on the New Zealand Government and the international community to rethink traditional assumptions about economies in the Pacific, in order to best support people through the global economic crisis and out of poverty. More >>
Oxfam is calling on the New Zealand Government and the international community to rethink traditional assumptions about economies in the Pacific, in order to best support people through the global economic crisis and out of poverty. More >>
Following the successful Peter Spencer Tower of Hope Property Rights rally in Canberra on the 2nd February, Peter Spencer, Alastair McRobert and Agmates Steve Truman are making plans for Peter and Alastair to embark on a speaking tour all over Australia. More >>
The President of East Timor, Dr Jose Ramos Horta, has presented medals and expressed his nation's gratitude to nearly 200 Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel who are about to return home. More >>
We are pleased to be among 55 countries – including all of the world’s major economies -- that have submitted pledges to limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the Copenhagen Accord. These countries represent nearly 80% of global ... More >>
I think what’s fair for Americans to think is that we have had a continuing threat from al-Qaida and related terrorist organizations over many years now. It hasn’t gone away. We have contained it. More >>
Northern Ireland has taken another important step toward a full and lasting peace. Its political leaders have agreed on a roadmap and timeline for the devolution of policing and justice powers, and they’ve taken other productive steps as well. More >>
Palestinian forces loyal to president Mahmoud Abbas in West Bank have raised their assaults against Palestinian activists, whom most are loyal to Hamas Movement. Since last Thursday, 18 people were arrested and tens others were called for inquiry. More >>
‘It has became clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield et al are incorrect, contrary to the findings of an earlier investigation.’ So concluded one of the longest misconduct inquiries in medical history. The editors of Britain’s ... More >>
Statements by Timor-Leste Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, and his Deputy Mario Carrascalao, highlight the Gusmao administration's unwillingness to combat corruption within its own ranks - and suggest Timor-Leste's new anti-corruption commission has little chance ... More >>
The lawyer of Eva Nováková, the former International Solidarity Movement (ISM) media coordinator, who was taken from her apartment in Ramallah on 11 January 2010 and subsequently deported, filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice today ... More >>
Three high-level United Nations meetings will take place in Vanuatu next week, bringing together top UN officials, other development partners and leaders from the Pacific to assess the challenges faced by the region and to map out strategies to spur development ... More >>
The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that the Emissions Trading Scheme proposed for Australia and now before the Australian Parliament was far more than “A Great Big New Tax”. More >>
Israeli soldiers raided a Ramallah apartment around 3AM to arrest a Spanish and an Australian activist over expired visas in direct violation of the Oslo Accords. At three in the morning, the Israeli army forcefully entered an apartment in the Area ... More >>
A maritime rescue mission is underway off Christmas Island after messages were received (Saturday) afternoon from a boat of asylum seekers in the vicinity of Christmas Island. More >>
The great weight of science still supports the findings in a landmark 2007 report from a United Nations-backed panel of experts that global warming is man-made, the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said today following recent attacks from ... More >>
While there has been progress in reducing the incidence of female genital mutilation or cutting in several countries, there are still three million girls who continue to be at risk each year, United Nations officials warned today, calling for redoubled ... More >>
General Sir David Julian Richards' official trip to Nepal which includes a visit to the Panchkal army training camp has raised issues concerning the British government's responsibilities in dealing with a foreign government and an army that is accused ... More >>
A 12-feet 3.5 ton black granite statue of entertainment icon Michael Jackson has been etched in India and the creators want to donate it for display at Neverland Valley Ranch (Santa Barbara county, California, USA), according to reports. More >>
Sébastien Loeb, already by far and away the most successful rally driver of all time, will be aiming for a new record of seven consecutive World Rally Championship titles when the 2010 WRC season kicks off in Sweden this weekend (11-14 February ... More >>
The Bob Barker had suddenly approached the Yushin Maru No.3 to launch butyric acid-containing bottle projectiles. When the Yushin Maru No.3 tried to avoid this, the Bob Baker collided against its stern. More >>
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, sending Mahashivrati greetings to one billion Hindus of the world, has asked them each to take a vow of adopting at least one charitable project on this auspicious occasion for less fortunate members of the community. More >>
At 1209 PM Fremantle, Australia time, the Yushin Maru 3 intentionally rammed the Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker, penetrating it's hull and endangering the lives of it's crew. The collision occurred at 65 degrees 21 South, 67 degrees 58 East, about ... More >>
The emergency relief wing of the United Nations voiced deep concern today over the dire humanitarian situation and safety of more than 1 million people forced to flee their homes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a result of violent ... More >>
A widespread humanitarian crisis persists in war-torn Somalia, with an estimated 3.2 million people, or 42 per cent of the population, in need of emergency aid or livelihood support, and one in six children acutely malnourished and requiring specialist ... More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has transmitted a report to the General Assembly on the follow-up to the report made by the United Nations fact-finding mission into the deadly conflict in the Gaza Strip at the start of last year. More >>
Any agreement between the Afghan Government and the Taliban should include a clear commitment to protect women’s human rights, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women said today. More >>
The head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) today called for boosting the body’s partnership with the United Nations to tackle threats to peace and security. More >>
Livestock farmers in the central and southern regions of Apurimac, Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Puno and Cusco are in a serious crisis, according to FAO, as the rains threatened their means of livelihood. On Monday, Peru's Civil Defence announced that some 37,000 ... More >>
The leader of the Serb Radical Party was today charged with contempt of court by the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the Balkans over allegedly revealing details about protected witnesses in his own trial. More >>
The former United States president Bill Clinton flew into Haiti today in his expanded role as United Nations coordinator of international quake relief efforts, and immediately pledged to see the tasks through to its successful conclusion "long after the television ... More >>
More than 100 additional United Nations police officers are already on the ground to help Haiti, which was devastated by a massive earthquake last month, following a call by the Security Council for extra forces to support the beleaguered Caribbean ... More >>
Trade unionists in countries visited by Dowa Line ships are taking action today in support of the All-Japan Seamen’s Union (JSU) which is being sued by the shipping company. More >>
The disappearance of Pregeeth Ekanaliyagoda, a political analyst, journalist and visual designer, attached to LankaENews; the arrest of Chandana Sirimalwatta, the editor of the Lanka newspaper and the assassination of Chandaradasa Naiwadu, the ... More >>
Physical and sexual violence, honor killings, forced marriages and structural inequalities within the society are constant violations of women’s fundamental rights. The cases in this article were provided by Mister Mohammed Nafees from Karachi, based on news ... More >>
Brazilian Gisele Bündchen, said to be the world’s highest paid model, reportedly kept herself in good shape during pregnancy with yoga and meditation. To prepare, gorgeous Bündchen (The Devil Wears Prada) admitted that she did yoga and meditation, ... More >>
The Punjab and Haryana High court was today moved by social activist Hemant Goswami for preventing the Ministry of Environment and Forest to approve genetically engineered and modified crops and vegetables. More >>
In a shock move, the Church of England decided today to disinvest from controversial miner Vedanta Resources on ethical grounds, dealing a devastating blow to the company’s credibility. More >>
After four years under the leadership of Oscar Arias, Costa Ricans will vote for a new president this Sunday, February 7th. In October 2008, Laura Chinchilla resigned as Vice President and Minister of Justice and Peace to launch her presidential campaign ... More >>
Despite the recent hysteria over Prince William’s visit, and the usual Australia Day identity debate that avoids the core issue of sovereignty, the Australian people have a rich desire to defeat the British Empire. More >>
Refugee advocates call for restraint and guarantees from Australia and Indonesia for safety and future of the asylum seekers More >>
A new media study among 300 Americans revealed that respondents were split on the decision by CBS to reject an ad sponsored by a gay dating website, after viewing the ad. More >>
Countries participating in a major endangered species trade conference in March must back better protection for red and pink coral, according to SeaWeb and WWF. These coral species are disappearing because of overfishing to make jewelry. More >>
Two United Nations agencies today warned that a lack of funding is hampering their efforts to assist the estimated 250,000 civilians uprooted by conflict in Yemen, with the UN refugee agency saying it has received less than three per cent of the ... More >>
The Security Council today welcomed the communiqué from the recent international conference on Afghanistan, saying it set a clear agenda and agreed priorities for peace and security in the country, and was underpinned by a comprehensive strategy ... More >>
Hindus have wished happiness and peace to Christian communities world over for the upcoming Christian season of Lent, which starts on February 17. More >>
Board of Supervisors of Nevada’s capital Carson City will reverberate with Sanskrit mantras from ancient Hindu scriptures reportedly for the first time on February 18. More >>
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire has deplored recent violence in the towns of Katiola and Divo and appealed for calm as the voter registration appeals process for the upcoming elections takes place. More >>
A large number of Iraqi refugees sheltering in neighbouring countries will be able to vote in Iraq’s parliamentary elections early next month with help from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the agency announced today. More >>
Nearly 200 cyber experts and other stakeholders seeking access to the Web for scores of millions of people with visual and other disabilities wrapped up a four-day United Nations workshop in Geneva today, stressing the need for universal access despite ... More >>
A new $2.4 million project between the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Finland aims to help countries develop affordable land administration systems to improve tenure security and land governance. More >>
With hundreds of Haitian schools destroyed or damaged by last month’s devastating earthquake, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has launched a public appeal for donations to help re-establish the education ... More >>
Lohan wrote on social networking service ‘twitter’ sometime back: “i'm all about Karma.. what goes around comes around!” More >>
The Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, has agreed to open the World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2010, the global summit meetings of the world¹s press, to be held in Beirut, Lebanon, from 7-10 June next. More >>
Amnesty International today questioned the impartiality of a proposed police investigation into alleged forced evictions near the Porgera gold mine following media reports that the Police Commissioner dismissed allegations of police misconduct. More >>
Boa Sr, who died last week aged around 85, was the last speaker of ‘Bo’, one of the ten Great Andamanese languages. The Bo are thought to have lived in the Andaman Islands for as much as 65,000 years, making them the descendants of one of the oldest ... More >>
The meeting of G7 Finance Ministers in Iqaluit, Canada, this week needs to press ahead on financial regulation and restructuring of banks, as powerful global financial interests step up their fight against reform. More >>
The terms of a controversial business deal to import Chinese fruit and vegetables into Timor-Leste should be made public given its potential to disadvantage local farmers, former Minister for Agriculture and Prime Minister Estanislau da Silva said ... More >>
The life of a student leader who was arrested by state intelligence officials is in danger. It is apprehended that he might have been killed. The government of Balochistan says that he was released on January 22, 2010, but his family members have said that ... More >>
This picture, which has become familiar to all Sri Lankans, is a symbol of the collapse of Sri Lanka’s policing system and the loss of a sense of security among the Sri Lankan people. More >>
Wellington, 5 February 2010. – Keeping children safe and reuniting them with family is a major concern in post-quake Haiti, says UNICEF NZ. Thousands of children are believed to have become lost and separated from their families in the chaos following ... More >>
Prime Minister Stephen Harper suspended the Canadian Parliament for the third time since he first took office in 2006 and the second time in just over a year. This comes at a time when Harper has faced increasingly vocal criticism from the opposition. More >>
Some 1,000 of the best university-level students worldwide are expected to take part in a Global Model United Nations Conference in Malaysia in July as the world body seeks to harness the energy and intellect of Earth’s younger citizens in achieving ... More >>
The United Nations is seeking to scale up its cash-for-work programme that is enabling Haitians to earn an income as they help their country recover from last month’s devastating earthquake, and the world body is calling on donors to help fund the ... More >>
Large-scale fishing operations are seriously threatening the lives of the majority of toothed whale populations, which include dolphins and porpoises, warned a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report released today. More >>
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has set up an expert group to find ways to increase tolerance around the world, as part of her commitment to promoting a “new humanism” to pursue a rapprochement ... More >>
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today launched an appeal for $1.2 billion to help provide life-saving emergency support to women and children impacted by the most severe humanitarian crises around the world, including the Haitian earthquake. More >>
To help combat high maternal mortality rates in Timor-Leste, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has supplied equipment to assist in child delivery to a hospital in the capital of the fledgling nation. More >>
An independent United Nations human rights expert today called for the immediate cancellation of Haiti’s external debt to allow it to recover from the devastating earthquake that struck the nation last month and move towards reconstruction. More >>
A legal complaint from agribusiness giant ADM has resulted in the removal from Youtube of a fake video of ADM's CEO making over-honest pronouncements. (The video is still available here, here, and, for download and reposting, here.) More >>
The United Nations today announced a further allocation of $20 million from its Peacebuilding Fund to the Central African Republic (CAR) to support security sector reform, economic revitalization and the rule of law in consolidating peace in the impoverished African ... More >>
I am delighted once again to meet with the foreign minister of a very valued partner of the United States, Bahrain.Our two nations a enjoy a time-tested relationship based on mutual interest and mutual respect. And our meeting today was another opportunity ... More >>
The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of Arab resistance. But its military strategists are as shrewd and unpredictable as ever. The recent rhetoric that has escalated from ... More >>
Save the Children, in partnership with the World Food Program (WFP), successfully distributed critically needed food supplies over the past two days in Marissant and Tabarre to about 30,000 people. More >>
The disaster of Haiti is well represented in Canadian media, with significant coverage in print and on television. MacLean’s magazine’s recent cover article photo is one of the very few that perhaps accidentally represents what is really happening ... More >>
Nowhere is this more urgent than in our efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. To meet this core goal, President Obama has outlined a strategy that includes supporting the Afghan and Pakistani Governments’ ... More >>
A new media study among 601 Americans revealed that the majority (77%) reported that the apology by Jim Lentz, President of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc., was sincere after viewing it. More >>
Progress on achieving greater social integration as envisioned in a landmark declaration in 1995 has been mixed, the head of the United Nations social development commission said today, calling for accelerated efforts to boost the participation of the world’s ... More >>
The year 2009 was one of the worst for Ahmadis (a religious minority community) in Pakistan. Eleven Ahmadis were murdered for their faith. Since the promulgation of the anti-Ahmadiyya law in 1984, there has never been a year when less than 11 Ahmadis ... More >>
The day before his annual State of the Union speech, President Obama telegraphed his disillusionment with the job: “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” More >>
Last week, Australia’s Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Hon Bob McMullan MP, announced that Australia would provide AUD2 million (around SBD13.5 million) over the next three years for the Pacific Financial Inclusion Program ... More >>
The ITUC and its Guatemalan affiliates within the Indigenous and Rural Movement (MSICG) strongly condemn the murder of Pedro Antonio García, a member of the Malacatán Municipal Workers Union, which is affiliated to the Confederation of Trade Union ... More >>
Commenting on the news that 37 GW [1] of new wind energy was added to the world's grids in 2009 Greenpeace International energy expert Sven Teske commented: "As the world looks to build an economic recovery this boom shows that wind energy is the ... More >>
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have condemned the sentencing of two Burmese journalists to long prison terms and called on the country's military junta to immediately release them and ... More >>
International relations and security analyst Dr Paul Buchanan is returning to NZ for a month and will deliver a public lecture on SE Asia/Pacific geopolitics and security. The lecture is open to the public and is hosted by AUT University's PMC. More >>
Indications of fraud in the June 12 Iranian presidential election, together with large-scale street demonstrations, have led to claims that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not actually win the election, and that the majority of Iranians perceive their government ... More >>
Over the past several months, a number of reports have circulated that address the subject of drug trafficking ties between South American narcotics trafficking interests and terrorist organizations, principally Al Qaeda and its smaller affiliates now ... More >>
Next year will mark a half-century since the Bay of Pigs, the failed assault on Fidel Castro’s young regime in Cuba that helped ignite the long cold war across the Straits of Florida. More >>
MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), an insurgent network, has again called on foreign oil and gas workers to leave the Niger Delta, warning that they will strike anytime without further notice. More >>
Somalia has been without a functioning central government or systematical law and order for almost two decades. The National Association of Somali Science and Environmental Journalists (NASSEJ) would like to agglomerate different options about the past and ... More >>
Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs Chief Executive Dr Colin Tukuitonga today paid tribute to Tongan emeritus Professor Dr Futa Helu of the Atanesi Institute for Critical Education in the South Pacific. More >>
Three weeks after the earthquake in Haiti, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations’ oldest agency, is still trying to re-establish reliable telephone and internet connections in the country, but also has long-term plans to ... More >>
A second Australian soldier has been identified as receiving minor wounds from a road-side bomb blast incident on the 30th of January 2010. The second soldier received minor head injuries as a result of the blast. A medical assessment does not class ... More >>
The United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office has joined forces with a network of over a dozen other UN entities to prevent sexual violence in armed conflict and respond effectively to the needs of survivors. More >>
The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Darfur region today strongly rejected “unfounded allegations” levelled by the Sudanese military’s spokesperson that it is collaborating with the rebel group known as ... More >>
The pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) today was ordered to reconsider adding the charge of genocide to the arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir issued last year. More >>
The United Nations Women’s Fund (UNIFEM) has announced that the outgoing Chilean President will work closely with the agency to speak out on behalf of Haitian women suffering from the massive earthquake that devastated the Caribbean country on 12 ... More >>
The number of people in Ethiopia who will need food assistance this year has risen to 5.2 million, an increase of several hundred thousand from estimates released just two months ago by United Nations relief agencies and the Horn of Africa nation’s ... More >>
The United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) is providing medical kits to thousands of expectant mothers in Haiti in case they cannot get medical attention in time and give birth at home or on the streets where they are living after last month’s earthquake. More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today asked former United States President Bill Clinton, already deeply involved in Haiti before last month’s devastating earthquake as the United Nations Special Envoy to the country, to assume a leadership role in coordinating ... More >>
With adverse weather causing air traffic delays and aircraft accidents, the United Nations today kicked off a week-long meeting in Hong Kong to examine the link between aviation and climate and look at improving the accuracy of forecasts, especially ... More >>
The possibility of yet another U.S. war became more real last week, when the Obama administration sharply confronted both China and Iran. The first aggressive act was performed by Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who “warned” China ... More >>
The Obama administration’s pact to use seven Colombian military bases accelerates “a dangerous trend in U.S. hemispheric policy,” an article in The Nation magazine warns. More >>
We, the undersigned, pledge to vote only for sound candidates regardless of their party. We seek traditional candidates who favor an anti-globalist, America First platform. We shall only vote for a candidate who: Supports reductions in legal immigration More >>
I think each day we are seeing improvements not only in the coordination but in the ability for the delivery of the different services and resources that are necessary given the magnitude of this particular tragedy. And so we are hopeful that we continue ... More >>
The Citizens’ Constitutional Forum (CCF) expresses concern on the reduction of penalties for coups and treasons under the new Crimes Decree which came into effect on 1 February 2010, as this could lead to greater acceptance of these crimes. More >>
200,000 tents are needed. Nine EU Member States have provided in total 1.342 tents for approx. 8.200 persons. Emergency shelter remains a major challenge: estimations settling on a figure of approximately 1 million people in need of emergency shelter. More >>
While the hacked emails episode several months ago revealing attempts by scientists to withhold information about global warming from publication has put the matter of peer review under scrutiny like never before , secrecy in peer review continues ... More >>
Jan. 27--``What we're seeing in Gaza now, is pretty much slow-motion genocide against the 1.5 million Palestinians who live in Gaza.... If you read the 1948 Genocide Convention, it clearly says that one instance of genocide is the deliberate infliction of conditions ... More >>
A new media study among 602 viewers of a news clip regarding the Focus on the Family organizations’ Super Bowl ad revealed that while the majority of viewers (62%) reported that the ad should not be pulled, pro-choice viewers were split on whether ... More >>
The United Nations refugee agency has closed a makeshift camp located between the borders of Iraq and Syria and relocated the last of the Palestinians who had been stranded there for nearly four years. More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today praised the role of international political, military, business and faith leaders in pushing for the phased elimination of all nuclear weapons with a global campaign to build public and political support. More >>
Beyond food, hundreds of thousands of Haitian earthquake victims displaced from their homes in Port-au-Prince, Léogâne and Jacmel urgently need shelter, with plastic sheeting taking priority over tents, the United Nations reported today in its latest ... More >>
UNICEF has maintained a presence in Haiti since 1949. The earthquake that struck this country with such disastrous force on 12 January has significantly affected the agency’s capacity to respond, but staff members have been adapting to difficult ... More >>
Thousands of Georgians displaced by the 2008 conflict with Russia over South Ossetia are getting access to computers for their education and livelihood purposes, thanks to an initiative by the United Nations refugee agency. More >>
The United Nations has taken no position on next year’s referendum on independence for southern Sudan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underscored today as he refuted recent media reports to the contrary. More >>
The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP) has temporarily suspended deliveries in north-western Afghanistan after a convoy was attacked over the weekend, resulting in the loss of over 100 metric tons of food aid. More >>
At 4PM in a showing of solidarity with the forcefully evicted families of Sheikh Jarrah, Israeli, Palestinian and international supporters will gather to rebuild the Gawi family tent after it was demolished by police earlier today. More >>
Among the lists of disappeared persons from Balochistan province are the names of 168 children and 148 women. Two lists of disappeared persons were released separately, one by Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), an NGO which works to document the ... More >>
The failure to appoint the Election Commission as required by the 17th Amendment makes a mockery of any attempt to hold elections in Sri Lanka. The manner in which the election for the executive presidency would have been conducted if the commission ... More >>
The parties in the dispute over the status of Western Sahara, where fighting broke out between Morocco and the Frente Polisario after Spain’s colonial administration ended in 1976, have agreed to a United Nations proposal to hold their next set of ... More >>
Some of the world’s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide have formally submitted to the United Nations their national targets to cut and limit greenhouse gases by 2020 – abiding by the 31 January deadline specified in the Copenhagen Accord produced ... More >>
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is ramping up efforts to assist nearly 4.3 million people in southern Sudan where the number of hungry has quadrupled over the past year due to conflict and drought. More >>
The United Nations refugee agency today called on Europe to play a larger role in refugee resettlement, 90 per cent of which is currently borne by the United States, Canada and Australia. More >>
The United Nations refugee agency today reported that a sharp rise in violence in Somalia in January left nearly 260 civilians dead, in addition to uprooting over 80,000 and causing widespread destruction. More >>
Despite the commitment shown by Ecuador to eliminate child labour, the scourge remains a major obstacle to the country’s development efforts, said an independent United Nations human rights expert. More >>
Thirteen Israeli human rights organizations sent an urgent letter (attached) to the president, the Knesset speaker and the prime minister, protesting the increasing and systematic campaign against human rights organizations in Israel: "A democracy ... More >>
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) condemns in the strongest terms the slanderous, ugly, and manipulative campaign targeting our longtime partner, the New Israel Fund (NIF), and its president, Professor Naomi Chazan, by the organization ... More >>
The Pope has criticised UK equality laws, including the Equality Bill that is currently before parliament. This attack comes ahead of the pontiff's State Visit to Britain, scheduled for September this year. More >>
The government of Papua New Guinea must investigate the conduct of police who burnt down homes and threatened people with guns while illegally evicting them from land next to one of the biggest gold mines in the country, Amnesty International said ... More >>
Global union federation the ITF today called on its 751 member unions worldwide – including 214 dockworkers’ unions – to protest at mistreatment of trade unionists in Costa Rica. More >>
Survival International supporters will demonstrate tomorrow (3 February) outside Tiffany stores in five countries to protest at the company funding water boreholes for game animals on Bushman land where the people are forbidden access to their own ... More >>
The top United Nations envoy in Iraq is continuing talks with the country’s various Iraqi leaders to ensure that elections scheduled for the first week in March can be conducted in a credible manner with the help of the international community, leading ... More >>
This morning, the President has sent the 2011 budget to the Hill, which provides significant funding for a balanced national security strategy and provides resources so that together the Department of State, the Department of Defense, Department Homeland ... More >>
U.S. Congressman Howard Berman (CA - Dem.), Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, and eleven senior Members of the House of Representatives, have sent a high-level letter to the Lao government in Vientiane asking it to grant the United ... More >>
U.S. Congressman Howard Berman (CA - Dem.), Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, and eleven senior Members of the House of Representatives, have sent a high-level letter to the Lao government in Vientiane asking it to grant the United ... More >>
Three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed, and two wounded after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonated under the vehicle in which they were travelling. More >>
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is “cautiously optimistic” about a newly launched scheme that could provide rice to some 2 million Haitians over the next two weeks, and promises to cut down on the recent chaotic scrambles around food ... More >>
A campaign is building to demand the impeachment of Jay Bybee, a sitting federal judge and the former head of the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Council (OLC), who wrote memos to facilitate offensive war and torture. More >>
The U.S. Department of State has named Faisal Hassan, a Malaysian alumnus of the Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program, as State Alumni Member of the Month. Hassan was selected in recognition of his work as president of YES Alumni Malaysia, an association ... More >>
As immediate efforts to provide food and other aid to hundreds of thousands of Haitian quake victims improve, the United Nations is also looking to longer-term goals of procuring 200,000 tents for the upcoming rainy season and encouraging many residents ... More >>
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of media killings, including 32 victims of a single massacre ... More >>
A senior United Nations official today welcomed the release of a Lebanese citizen apprehended by Israeli Defense Forces on Sunday in a disputed area of land located on the border between southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights, announcing that the ... More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today named a Filipino general as the new Force Commander for the United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Golan Heights, tasked with observing the ceasefire between Israel and Syria in the region. More >>
Forensic science, more often associated with solving murders in prime time television crime series, is now helping the United Nations fight illegal fishing, fraudulent product substitution and false documentation that not only cheat consumers but also ... More >>
Some 100 people were slaughtered by a notorious Uganda rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month, the United Nations humanitarian arm has said. More >>
EXECUTIVE Director of Grassroots Initiative for Peace and Democracy (GIPD), a civil society group, Mr. Akinaka Richard, says armed youths of the Niger Delta are bracing to return to the path of hostilities because the protracted health condition of President ... More >>
Unresolved Queries Are Allegedly Threatening To Breed Mistrust In The Promises Of climate-change funding that governments made in the Copenhagen Accord at December’s United Nations summit. This claim is contained in a paper published on Monday by ... More >>
As Canada prepares to host the G8 and G20 Summits this June, the International AIDS Society (IAS) today congratulated Prime Minister Stephen Harper for saying that the G8 "discussion should be less about new agreements than accountability for existing ... More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – who as a citizen of the Republic of Korea understands the “emptiness” of a country divided into north and south – voiced optimism today that a solution to long-running problems is “within reach,” calling for ... More >>
The top United Nations official in Iraq today expressed his shock and sadness at the suicide bombing targeting Shi’a pilgrims, reportedly killing over 40 people. Media reports say that more than 100 people were also injured in the attack which ... More >>
Farmers and villagers are taking part in United Nations-backed efforts to rid Afghanistan of landmines, which is also providing a much-needed boost to their incomes. More >>
Women must be given a key role in all aspects of the emergency relief effort in earthquake-ravaged Haiti for it to be effective and to protect the human rights of the most vulnerable, a United Nations committee warned today. More >>
Where did you sleep last night? Where did you eat? What does your neighbourhood look like? These are some of the questions United Nations staff are asking hundreds of children in Haiti after launching a new programme to keep track of children orphaned ... More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today paid tribute to one of his predecessors, U Thant, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, calling the third holder of the United Nations top post as a statesman of “great skill and quiet persistence,” who steered the ... More >>
Dozens of African leaders met today in Ethiopia to tackle the challenges facing the continent in the effort to meet the United Nations target of ensuring universal access to malaria control measures by the end of this year. More >>
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