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Viet Nam: UN Alarmed By Conviction of Human Rights Lawyer
Monday, 7 October 2013, 11:02 am | UN News
The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of Viet Nam to review the conviction of human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan, who was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $60,000 for alleged charges of tax evasion. More >>
2013 APEC Ministerial Meeting - Joint Ministerial Statement
Monday, 7 October 2013, 9:51 am | APEC
We, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministers, met on 4-5 October 2013, in Bali, Indonesia. The meeting was co-chaired by H.E. R.M. Marty M. Natalegawa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Indonesia and H.E. Gita Wirjawan, Minister for Trade ... More >>
Three West Papuans occupy Australian consulate in Bali
Sunday, 6 October 2013, 12:13 pm | Anne Noonan
Three West Papuans have occupied the Australian consulate in Bali to demand the Indonesian government treat them “like human beings”. More >>
Ministers: Ensure resiliency in the Asia-Pacific
Saturday, 5 October 2013, 12:45 pm | APEC
Bali, Indonesia, 4 Oct 2013 - APEC Ministers opened their two-day meeting on Friday in Bali by assessing member economies’ progress towards fostering a more resilient Asia-Pacific that can serve as an engine for balanced, sustainable growth with equity ... More >>
Global dispute over Qatar 2022 World Cup
Saturday, 5 October 2013, 12:42 pm | ITUC
Brussels, 4 October 2013 (ITUC OnLine): FIFA's offer of only a 'courtesy visit' to the Emir of Qatar is totally inadequate and fails to put in place any plan to stop more workers dying. More >>
Greenpeace applauds Dutch arbitration over Arctic 30
Saturday, 5 October 2013, 12:40 pm | Greenpeace
Greenpeace International applauds Dutch arbitration over Arctic 30 Amsterdam, 4 October 2013 – The Dutch government today announced that it would initiate arbitration proceedings against Russia under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea to secure ... More >>
Shaping the Future of Sustainable Energy
Saturday, 5 October 2013, 12:35 pm | UN ESCAP
Opinion-Editorial Piece Submitted for Publication by Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and Special Advisor of the United Nations Secretary-General ... More >>
Cancellation of the President’s Trip to Asia
Friday, 4 October 2013, 4:03 pm | The White House
Due to the government shut-down, President Obama’s travel to Indonesia and Brunei has been cancelled. The President made this decision based on the difficulty in moving forward with foreign travel in the face of a shutdown, and his determination to continue ... More >>
Rights groups critical of charges, global protests Saturday
Friday, 4 October 2013, 9:13 am | Greenpeace International
A further 15 Greenpeace International activists and a Russian freelance photojournalist were today charged with piracy in Murmansk. This means that all 28 activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, as well as two freelancers, now face the charge. ... More >>
TPP: Anti-gas mining groups say no to investors suing govts
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 5:36 pm | AFTINET
More than 70 organisations including 54 regional groups ranging from Mirboo in Victoria, to the Cassowary Coast in North Queensland, to Walgett in NSW, in traditional areas of Coalition support, have endorsed a letter to Trade Minister Andrew Robb. More >>
Team Australia Ready For 2013 Asia-Pacific Amateur Champions
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 2:08 pm | Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship
The best amateur golfers from Australia will travel to Nanshan International Golf Club in China for the fifth-annual Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship (AAC), from 24-27 October, as they attempt to bring the coveted title to their homeland for the ... More >>
UN Mission to Disable Syria’s Chemical Production Facilities
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 11:44 am | UN News
The joint team of United Nations and international inspectors overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons production facilities completed its first day of work in Damascus, a UN spokesperson announced today, adding that dismantling of the facilities ... More >>
Syria: UN Urges All Sides to Give Access to Humanitarian Aid
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 11:08 am | UN News
Gravely concerned by the deepening “humanitarian tragedy” in Syria, the United Nations Security Council today urged the Syrian Government to immediately allow cross-border aid deliveries and called on all parties to the conflict to agree on humanitarian ... More >>
UN and Malawi Launch Relief Operation for Food Aid
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 11:06 am | UN News
With nearly one and a half million people in need of food assistance in Malawi, the United Nations, the Government and other partners have launched a relief operation to meet growing needs owing to bad weather and high food prices. More >>
Kenyan Accused of Bribing Witness in Ruto Case
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 11:06 am | UN News
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for a man accused of bribing a prosecution witness in the case against Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto. More >>
Israel Insists on Sanctions against Iranian Nuclear Threat
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:48 am | UN News
Addressing the United Nations today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the only way diplomacy will stop Iran’s “feverish efforts” to acquire nuclear weapons is to keep up international pressure through “tough” sanctions ... More >>
Some 74,000 Tuberculosis Deaths Could Be Prevented Each Year
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:46 am | UN News
The deaths of more than 74,000 children from tuberculosis (TB) could be prevented each year through measures outlined in the first action plan developed specifically on TB and children, which was launched today by the United Nations health agency ... More >>
UN To Boost Support for Countries Hosting Syrian Refugees
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:45 am | UN News
Participants at a United Nations meeting in Geneva today agreed on urgent action to mitigate the economic and social impacts of the humanitarian crisis spawned by the Syrian conflict on neighbouring countries struggling under the weight of more ... More >>
Construction of Massive Steel Plant in India Must Be Halted
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:42 am | UN News
United Nations independent experts today called on Indian authorities to immediately halt the construction of a massive steel plant in the eastern state of Odisha – formerly known as Orissa – which threatens to displace more than 22,000 people ... More >>
DPRK Urges Financial Support for Sustainable Development
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:41 am | UN News
International efforts towards achieving universally accepted anti-poverty targets have not produced due results, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pak Kil Yon of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) told the United Nations today, urging ... More >>
Serbia: Protection of Gay Rights Needed As Pride Parade Off
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:40 am | UN News
The United Nations human rights office today urged Serbian authorities to ensure the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community can exercise their rights to freedom of expression and association, following the Government’s decision to ... More >>
One In Eight People Worldwide Still Chronically Hungry - UN
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:38 am | UN News
Some 842 million people – roughly one in eight – suffered from chronic hunger in the period from 2011 to 2013, the vast majority of them in developing regions, says a new report released today by the three United Nations food agencies. More >>
UN Chief Condemns Murder of Students at Nigerian College
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 10:16 am | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “strongly condemns” the murder on Sunday of more than 40 students and the wounding of several others by gunmen at an agricultural college in north-eastern Nigeria, his spokesperson said today. More >>
Russia: Drop ‘absurd and damaging’ piracy charge
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 9:36 am | Amnesty International
The “piracy” charge levelled against activists from Greenpeace in Russia is absurd and damaging to the rule of law and must be dropped immediately, Amnesty International said. More >>
Piracy Charge Against Arctic Activists 'An Assault'
Thursday, 3 October 2013, 8:59 am | Greenpeace International
The Russian state prosecutor today laid charges of piracy against a Greenpeace activist who protested against oil drilling in the Arctic. More >>
Shutdown memo: Update on Status of Operations
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 5:19 pm | US Office of Management and Budget
This memorandum follows the September 17, 2013, Memorandum M-13-22, and provides an update on the potential lapse of appropriations. Appropriations provided under the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6) expire ... More >>
Shutdown - Turning the lights off
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 3:39 pm | The White House
If the United States government shuts down tonight and our economy takes a hit, it will be because House Republicans let it happen. More >>
Belize Chastises Rich Nations for Abandoning Global Partners
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 1:15 pm | UN News
Developed nations have not honoured their commitments to provide the assistance poor countries need to achieve the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Foreign Minister of Belize told United Nations Member ... More >>
UN Refugee Chief Urges Greater Support of Syria's Neighbours
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 12:46 pm | UN News
The United Nations refugee chief today called on Syria’s neighbours to continue to keep their borders open and provide protection to those fleeing the conflict, and on the international community to help these countries shoulder the burden. More >>
Conflict in Syria ‘A War on Terror,’ Deputy PM Tells UN GA
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 12:42 pm | UN News
The conflict ravaging Syria is not a civil war but a war on terror, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister said today in his turn at the rostrum at the high-level debate that opens the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly. More >>
Middle East: Gulf State Ministers Support Nuclear-Free Zone
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 12:41 pm | UN News
In their addresses to the United Nations General Assembly today, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain and Oman reiterated their support for making the Middle East a zone free of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, urging greater ... More >>
Eritrea Foreign Minister Urges General Assembly to Reform UN
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 12:40 pm | UN News
The United Nations is debilitated by chronic weaknesses and shortcomings and must be reformed, the Foreign Minister of Eritrea today said, urging also that sanctions against its country be lifted. More >>
UN Chemical Weapons Investigators Depart Syria after Mission
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 12:39 pm | UN News
The United Nations team investigating allegations of chemical weapons use in Syria has left the country after completing its six-day mission, a spokesperson for the world body said today. More >>
Nicaragua Continues Progress on Anti-Poverty Targets
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 12:38 pm | UN News
In an annual statement at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Foreign Minister of Nicaragua highlighted his country’s progress towards achieving the anti-poverty goals, which is the theme of this year’s General Assembly. More >>
Behind the Scenes – When the World Comes To UN Headquarters
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 12:37 pm | UN News
Gridlock and fanfare – two words often associated with the United Nations. At no time do they crop up more frequently than when the General Assembly opens its high-level session in the fall every year. More >>
West Papua: Civilians attacked by Indonesian soldiers
Monday, 30 September 2013, 5:43 pm | Selpius Bobii - Front Pepera Papua Barat
On Monday 23 September 2013 in the town of Waghete which is the main town of the region (kabupaten) Deiyai (district Tigi) at 11.30 am local time, an action of violence by the Indonesian armed forces causing death and bloodshed of unarmed civilians occurred. More >>
Pacific Nations at UN Want Urgent Action on Climate Change
Monday, 30 September 2013, 1:51 pm | UN News
Pacific countries, some of them threatened with extinction from rising sea levels, took to the podium of the United Nations General Assembly today to call for an urgent global approach to mitigate climate change, voicing concern at the lack of progress ... More >>
Syrian Opposition Must Send Delegation to Peace Conference
Monday, 30 September 2013, 1:47 pm | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the National Coalition for the Syrian opposition forces to reach out to other groups and agree on a united delegation for an upcoming peace conference, as he met with the President of the Coalition on Saturday. More >>
Charles Taylor Conviction an ‘Important Step’ For Justice
Monday, 30 September 2013, 1:45 pm | UN News
Members of the Security Council today welcomed the decision by a United Nations-backed court to uphold the conviction of former Liberian President Charles Taylor for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during Sierra Leone’s civil war. More >>
King of Tonga Calls for New Development for Climate Change
Monday, 30 September 2013, 1:40 pm | UN News
Taking the podium at the United Nations General Assembly today, King Tupou VI of Tonga joined leaders of other small island developing States (SIDS) in urging that sustainable development agenda address climate change in a way that is integrated ... More >>
Passing the Torch to a New Generation of Syrians
Sunday, 29 September 2013, 11:13 am | Franklin Lamb
Few, one imagines, in the Syrian Arab Republic these days question the urgency and enormity of the task of reconstruction of their ancient country from war inflicted destruction caused by a carnage more than half as long as WWI. More >>
Greenpeace International to appeal Russian court rulings
Saturday, 28 September 2013, 2:56 pm | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, 27 September 2013 - Greenpeace International condemned a series of Russian court rulings which left dozens of activists in custody pending investigations into a peaceful Arctic oil protest. The group insisted it would not be intimidated and ... More >>
Patterns of displacement continue to be massive in Syria
Saturday, 28 September 2013, 2:45 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (27 September 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), Chaloka Beyani, urged the international community not to lose sight of the plight of millions forced into mass displacement ... More >>
Neuroweapons -- more terrifying than the atomic bomb
Friday, 27 September 2013, 4:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The following review was written by Ms. Cheryl Welsh to summarise the paper published by Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives in its latest issue. More >>
Prince Tonye Princewill breaks his silence
Friday, 27 September 2013, 4:21 pm | Nwaorgu Faustinus
Prince Tonye T.J.T Princewill is a member of the PDP and a key player in the politics of Rivers State. After a long period of silence, the young man who quite easily has one of the most respected voices in not only Rivers state but the Niger Delta Spoke ... More >>
Palestinian government condemns storming of Al-aqsa mosque
Friday, 27 September 2013, 4:12 pm | Alray Media Agency
The Palestinian Government in Gaza condemned the daily storming of Al-Aqsa courtyards by Israeli settlers and soldiers, calling the Arab League and Organization of Islamic Conference to take serious actions to save the Holy Mosque. More >>
Experts call on world to be guided by Maastricht Principles
Friday, 27 September 2013, 4:07 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged governments worldwide to take into account a set of guidelines on extraterritorial obligations adopted by leading specialists in international law and human rights on 28 September 2011 ... More >>
Hammad Appeals to Egyptian Authorities to Open Rafah Crossing
Friday, 27 September 2013, 3:58 pm | Gaza Ministry of Interior
The Minister of Interior and National Security Fathi Hammad urges the Egyptian authorities to immediately open Rafah Border Crossing for humanitarian cases to receive medical treatment abroad. More >>
Interior Ministry is prepared to any aggression
Friday, 27 September 2013, 3:55 pm | Gaza Interior Ministry
Gaza Interior Minister Fathi Hammad affirms that the responsibility of its Ministry is to protect the internal front and the security of Palestinian citizens, explaining that the Ministry is well prepared to face any attack against the Gaza Strip. More >>
HRU: Sick Female Prisoners suffering in Israeli Jails
Friday, 27 September 2013, 3:52 pm | Gaza Interior Ministry
The Human Rights Unit (HRU) of the Interior Ministry advises that the Israeli occupation is still detaining 13 Palestinian women in Hasharon Prison. They continue suffering despite mass media and international organizations, which supposedly defend the rights ... More >>
UN-Backed Court Decision to Uphold Charles Taylor Conviction
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:42 pm | UN News
The Prosecutor of the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) today welcomed the court’s decision to uphold the conviction of former Liberian President Charles Taylor for war crimes and crimes against humanity. More >>
UN Urges Renewed Efforts to Rid World of Nuclear Threat
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:41 pm | UN News
Senior United Nations officials today called on Member States to take renewed steps to rid the world of nuclear weapons, during what was the first high-level meeting ever held by the General Assembly devoted to this issue. More >>
Loss of Life Caused By Earthquake in South-West Pakistan
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:40 pm | UN News
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his sadness at the loss of life and damage to thousands of homes caused by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck south-west Pakistan earlier this week. More >>
At UN Meeting, Countries Commit To Protect Gay Rights
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:39 pm | UN News
Countries attending the first ministerial meeting held at the United Nations on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals today reaffirmed their commitment to work together to combat discrimination and protect the rights ... More >>
Cyprus Shows Ills Caused By Non-Enforcement of UN Decisions
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:38 pm | UN News
The “unacceptable” situation that Cyprus finds itself in – still divided after 40 years of numerous Security Council resolutions that call for its reunification – is an example of the harm that can result from the non-enforcement of United ... More >>
Zimbabwe’s President Urges Support for Developing Countries
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:35 pm | UN News
The objectives of the United Nations Charter in the economic arena will remain unfulfilled unless Member States address challenges in the developing countries, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe today told the General Assembly high-level debate. More >>
Abbas: Current Talks Last Chance For Just Peace with Israel
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:32 pm | UN News
Warning that time is running out, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today called on the United Nations to end Israeli settlement building on Palestinian land and thus giving a last chance for renewed peace talks to resolve the Middle East conflict ... More >>
UN Agency Aiding Palestinians Faces ‘Unprecedented’ Demands
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:21 pm | UN News
The United Nations agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees is facing extraordinary demands under very challenging circumstances, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, urging the international community to step up so that five million people ... More >>
Somali President Cites Successes in Rebuilding Country
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:20 pm | UN News
Recalling the major milestones Somalia achieved over the past year, the country’s President today told the United Nations that bolstering its political and governance gains requires international support, particularly the ongoing struggle to drive ... More >>
World leaders urge collective push for Syria solution
Friday, 27 September 2013, 12:20 pm | United Nations
As world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly’s annual debate laid out their national priorities and exchanged views on sustainable development, many today also expressed grave concern about the ongoing crisis in Syria and urged a collective ... More >>
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