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UN: Civilian deaths in Afghan war hit record high
BOSTON Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:19:58 GMT
Last year was the deadliest on record for civilians in the Afghan war, with 3,021 killed as insurgents ratcheted up violence with suicide attacks and roadside bombs, the United Nations said Saturday.
Kidnapped Norwegian freed in Yemen
CHICAGOTRIBUNE Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:52:00 GMT
SANAA (Reuters) - A Norwegian working for the United Nations was freed on Friday, nearly two weeks after being kidnapped in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the Interior Ministry said.
Pro-Gbagbo rally attacked, many injured
BOSTON Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:59:33 GMT
Numerous supporters of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo were injured when their rally was attacked on Saturday, according to the United Nations.
Norwegian UN worker kidnapped in Yemen
INDEPENDENT Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:36:52 GMT
Norway's Foreign Ministry says a Norwegian man who was working for the United Nations has been kidnapped in Yemen.   
Scientists: UN Soldiers Brought Deadly Superbug to Americas
ABCNEWS Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:35:13 GMT
Compelling new scientific evidence suggests United Nations peacekeepers have carried a virulent strain of cholera – a super bug -- into the Western Hemisphere for the first time.
UN warns 87,500 ‘Sendong’ children at risk of abuse, neglect and trafficking
GMANETWORK Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:02:14 GMT
Disaster relief workers of the United Nations on Tuesday said it is urgent that measures be put in place to protect thousands of orphaned and unaccompanied children from abuse, neglect and human trafficking syndicates in areas ravaged by Tropical Storm Sendong.
Iraq agrees to move Iran exiles; rockets hit camp
BOSTON Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:09:18 GMT
The United Nations and the Iraqi government agreed to relocate several thousand Iranian exiles living in a camp in northeastern Iraq, potentially averting a showdown with its residents. The dissidents, who have not said whether they would agree to move, reported a rocket attack on the camp.
UN, Iraq agree on Camp Ashraf resettlement plan
BOSTON Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:59:19 GMT
The United Nations says it has signed an agreement with the Iraqi government to move a group of Iranian exiles living in a camp in northeastern Iraq.
Force-fed and beaten – life for women in jail
INDEPENDENT Sun, 18 Dec 2011
Female prisoners around the world are being subjected to body cavity searches, beatings and force-feeding, are held in padded cells, shackled during childbirth, and made to work in chain gangs. Some of the worst conditions are in developing countries, but there are also serious abuses and overcrowding in Europe and North America. These are the major findings of a survey by The Independent on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of United Nations rules governing the treatment of women in prison.
UN climate change deal praised
GOOGLE Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:13:09 GMT
CLIMATE Change Minister Greg Combet has praised the outcome of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Duban as a significant breakthrough in tackling global warming.
Durban climate change: Talks descend into farce
FEEDSPORTAL Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:55:47 GMT
United Nations climate change talks were set ran into a second unscheduled day of negotiations as the latest attempt to force all countries to cut carbon emissions descended into farce.
We wrote Sri Lankan President's civil war speech, say lobbyists
INDEPENDENT Tue, 06 Dec 2011
Senior executives at Bell Pottinger told undercover reporters that they were so influential that they had written a key speech given by the Sri Lankan President to the United Nations.
The NAACP exposes voter suppression schemes | Kay Dilday
GUARDIAN Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:44:42 GMT
There is scant evidence of 'voter fraud', yet under that pretext states are trying to return us to a pre-Civil Rights era America The NAACP will be sending a delegation to the United Nations Commissioner of Human Rights alleging a concerted effort to deny voting rights to black and hispanic Americans. Given how rarely anyone in the United States looks to the United Nations for justice, and how often the United States ignores the UN, this is both a significant and futile effort. But what's at issue is so egregious that the NAACP has chosen to shout it from a global stage. In 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president, the United States had one of the highest turnouts ever of black and Latino voters. Undoubtedly, this made a difference in the election: Obama won by a slim margin in many states that had traditionally voted Republicans. The high turnout of blacks and Latinos made the difference in crucial swing states like Florida, Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico. And southern......
Land, water scarcity threaten food security - U.N.
REUTERS Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:48:27 GMT
MILAN (Reuters) - A rapidly growing population, climate change and degradation of land and water resources are likely to make the world more vulnerable to food insecurity and challenge the task of feeding its people by 2050, the United Nations' food agency said.
Jaish, JuD hold anti-India rally in PoK
THEHINDU Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:59:48 GMT
Hundreds of members of banned extremist and terror groups, including the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamaat-ud-Dawah, declared a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba, by the United Nations Security Council, joi...
Historic trial: Top Khmer Rouge trio in dock
FEEDSPORTAL Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:39:32 GMT
Opening statements in the most significant stage of a United Nationsbacked trial of Khmer Rouge leaders began in Cambodia on Monday with a horrifying and detailed account of the atrocities of a regime that a prosecutor said was responsible for the deaths of one-fourth of the population.
AIDS levelling off but still 'scary'
CBC Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:04:15 EST
The AIDS epidemic is levelling off and the number of people newly infected with the virus that causes it has remained unchanged since 2007, the United Nations says.
Protect children from lead poisoning, govt urged
GMANEWS Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:00:51 GMT
An ecological group urged the government to prioritize protecting children from lead poisoning, particularly that arising from paint products. EcoWaste Coalition made this appeal as the United Nations declared November 20 as Universal Children's Day.
Occupy Wall Street: Zuccotti Park eviction - live updates
GUARDIAN Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:43:00 GMT
• New York police clear Zuccotti Park in 1am swoop on plaza • More than 200 arrested mayor Bloomberg defends action • Protesters awarded court order allowing them back • Standoff developing between police and Occupy protesters • Read our earlier live blog here • All times ET 3.43pm: Despite a flurry of rumour on Twitter, our reporter Karen McVeigh, who is inside the supreme court building and awaiting the ruling with other journalists, confirms that nothing has yet come from the judge. Despite this, the hundreds of protesters outside the court, and hundreds more at Zuccotti Park, are celebrating wildly, according to our reporters at both locations. 3.24pm: I said earlier that six journalists were "carrying NYPD accreditation". The New York Daily News executive editor for digital, Scott Cohen, tells me via Twitter that the paper's reporter, Matthew Lysiak, did not have his press card with him when he was arrested today. Not that it would have made much difference, it would.......
China: Sanctions cannot solve Iran nuke issue
BOSTON Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:49:34 GMT
Tighter United Nations sanctions against Iran cannot fundamentally resolve tensions over the country's nuclear program, China's Foreign Ministry said Friday.
Hague: UK to abstain on UN Palestinian vote
BOSTON Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:29:35 GMT
Foreign Secretary William Hague says Britain will abstain when the United Nations Security Council votes on the Palestinian bid for statehood.
U.N. sees violent Congo election as police take sides
REUTERS Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:27:56 GMT
GENEVA (Reuters) - Political repression and partisanship by the security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo could lead to bloodshed in this month's presidential election, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office said in a report on Wednesday.
VIDEO: Ban Ki Moon in UN re-election bid
BBC Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:45:17 GMT
Ban Ki Moon has formally announced his candidacy for a second five-year term as United Nations Secretary General.
Road safety decade in Bangladesh
BBC Wed, 11 May 2011 04:47:28 GMT
Bangladesh joins the first United Nations Decade of Action for Road safety, along with dozens of countries.
VIDEO: Sri Lanka protests slam UN report
BBC Mon, 02 May 2011 01:35:08 GMT
Sri Lanka has used the annual May Day rally to reject a United Nations report calling for both sides in the country's civil war to be investigated over possible war crimes.
East Timor police back in charge
BBC Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:33:28 GMT
East Timor's police are now back in charge after the United Nations hands back control of security.
UN's emergency appeal for Sri Lanka
BBC Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:51:59 GMT
The United Nations is launching an emergency appeal for Sri Lanka, where floods have killed at least 32 people and displaced more than 300,000 others.
UN warns of long cholera epidemic
BBC Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:00:26 GMT
The United Nations is warning that the cholera epidemic in Haiti could fester for years despite some signs the number of cases is beginning to stabilise.
Mobile internet will outstrip 'desktop' use by 2014, says ex-Obama adviser
GUARDIAN Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:55:00 GMT
Manuel Castells hails 'phenomenal' societal impact of the internet and social networks – and says they made Obama election possible By 2014, the number of mobile internet users will surpass the number of users browsing the internet via a desktop computer, says a former adviser to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and member of technology panels on the United Nations. Professor Manuel Castells told a conference on web science at the Royal Society this week that the internet is a "key technology of freedom" for those able to access it, predicting that the planet will achieve "quasi-universal coverage of internet access as my generation fades away". In that time, he said, a "major disparity in the quality of connection around the world is a major issue of policy" for governments to tackle. The timescale for the shift echoes comments made by John Herlihy, head of global advertising operations at Google, who earlier this year said "In three years time, desktops will be......
Congo's civilians need protection | Gerry Simpson
GUARDIAN Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:00:31 GMT
The crisis in eastern Congo will not be solved until thousands of displaced people can safely return to their homes "We fled home in 2004 and we haven't been back," a 33-year-old woman I will call Solange told me. "We lived in Kiwanja: there was no assistance so we lived for two years in a church; then we lived for two years in a camp." After soldiers destroyed the camp, they fled to the outskirts of a UN peacekeepers' base. "Now the locals want us to leave. So where should we go?" Solange is not alone in being constantly on the run in eastern Congo, a region ravaged by more than 15 years of war. Millions of men, women and children like her have repeatedly fled the rapidly shifting alliances among myriad armies and armed groups who, when not targeting each other, prey on civilians. All sides – Congolese and foreign armies and an alphabet soup of armed groups – have committed appalling abuses. Their killings, rape, burning, pillaging and forced labour have forced at least 1.2.....
The Guardian links up with Bill Gates for global development website
GUARDIAN Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:56:55 GMT
Guardian Global Development to track goals set out by UN Millennium Declaration The Guardian has teamed up with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to launch a global development website, which went live today. Guardian Global Development will track the goals set out by the United Nations Millennium Declaration, aimed at improving the lives of the world's poorest people. And will do so with contributions from the Guardian Data Store hosting data and visualisations from a collection of highly regarded sources. The new site, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will host comment from a range of voices and provide special focus to the eight goals set out by the UN in 2000. As the associate editor of the Guardian, Madeleine Bunting, said in an introductory blogpost: "Meeting all the targets by 2015 was always going to be a huge global challenge, and several are unlikely to be met, but they have proved highly effective at galvanising global commitment and......
Khmer Rouge jailer guilty of war crimes
PRESSTV Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:46:15 GMT
A United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia has sentenced a former Khmer Rouge official to 35 years in jail for committing crimes against humanity.
Mandela celebrates 92nd birthday
BBC Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:42:23 GMT
Nelson Mandela celebrates his 92nd birthday on Sunday - a day the United Nations is calling Nelson Mandela International Day in recognition of his moral leadership.
Stop the violence in Kyrgyzstan: UNHCHR
PRESSTV Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:56:37 GMT
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has urged the interim Kyrgyz authorities to act firmly to end the "brutality" in southern Kyrgyzstan.
UN to investigate shootings at prison after Haiti quake
INDEPENDENT Sun, 23 May 2010 23:00:01 GMT
The United Nations has launched an investigation into what it calls "major human-rights violations" at an overcrowded jail in Haiti, after claims that police shot dozens of prisoners during the chaotic days after the country's earthquake in January.
Cambodia threatens UN expulsion
BBC Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:10:35 GMT
Cambodia's foreign minister threatens to expel a United Nations envoy, in a row over an anti-corruption law.
UN chief's dismay at suffering in Gaza
BBC Mon, 22 Mar 2010

The UN Secretary General has said families in Gaza are living in "unacceptable, unsustainable conditions" under the Israeli blockade.

Ban Ki-moon was speaking during a visit to an area damaged by Israel's offensive 14 months ago.

The UN has not been able to help with the rebuilding of such areas because of the blockade, but Mr Ban said the organisation still stood with Gazans.


Congo: 'The soldiers meant to protect us are the same ones killing people'
GUARDIAN Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:03:34 GMT
Mupole Natabaro, 30, from Musurundi, recalls being gang-raped and left for dead by government troops who killed her family One day the FDLR (rebels) attacked the government soldiers' positions. They fought but the FDLR was not strong enough so they ran into the forest.
Mongolians suffer in extreme cold
BBC Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:44:16 GMT
The United Nations warns that extreme winter weather has killed more than a million livestock in Mongolia.
Black Hawks bring relief from above for desperate Haitians
INDEPENDENT Wed, 20 Jan 2010
American Black Hawk helicopters swooped down onto the grounds of the ruined presidential palace in Port-au-Prince yesterday to disgorge combat troops and humanitarian supplies as both the United States and the United Nations pressed the pace and scope of their relief operations in Haiti.
AL urges more UN, less US in Mideast peace process
PRESSTV Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:34:12 GMT
Arab League chief Amr Moussa calls on the United Nations to assume a greater role in the Middle East peace process, saying Washington should not be the only mediator.
About 40% of Arab World lives under poverty line
PRESSTV Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:19:53 GMT
About 40% of the population in Arab countries, approximately 140 million people, live below the poverty line, according to a report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Arab League.
Pass notes No 2,703: 2009
GUARDIAN Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:05:15 GMT
So, apart from Jedward, what will the past 12 months be remembered for? Age: 11 months and 21 days. Appearance: A creature with the body of Susan Boyle and the head of Barack Obama using an iPhone to tweet Stephen Fry about a nearby outbreak of swine flu. You forgot to mention Jedward. I wasn't actually trying to incorporate every single aspect of the year's news and popular culture in a single chimerical mental image. That would involve mentioning everything that has happened in the last 12 months; a task that would take for ever and yet, somehow, achieve less than nothing. But you have to mention Jedward! This has been The Year of Jedward. No, no, it hasn't. So what was it the year of? Well, it was the International Year of Natural Fibres, according to the United Nations. Is that why Ban Ki-moon kept dancing about in that hemp robe? No, that was a dream you had. What the secretary general did do was meet with President Barack Obama. Together they christened 2009 the Year of Climate Change. Because this was the year the world finally woke up and collectively made a historic commitment to deeply inadequate global emissions cuts? Something like that, yes. But that's not all we achieved. It was also the Year of Twitter, the Year of 3-D, the Year of Mobile Internet, the Year of Twilight and the Year of The Ox. And, according to an article in the New York Post, the Year of Aretha Franklin's Hats. Aretha Franklin's hats? It had pictures and everything. She wore some really big hats. I'm struggling to imagine any collection of hats, no matter how big, capable of defining an entire year. One of them was actually a hood. You've won me over. Forget that climate nonsense. It was the Year of Aretha Franklin's Hats. Do say: "Future generations will look back at this year and say, 'Thank you for this.'" Don't say: "They'll be talking about a massive hat." guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Goldstone receives human rights award
PRESSTV Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:16:03 GMT
United Nations Human Rights Council Judge Richard Goldstone has been honored with an international human rights award for 'an outstanding contribution to promotion and protection of human rights.'
UN Network of Men to fight women abuse
BBC Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:15:21 GMT
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon announces a Network of Men Leaders in a campaign to stop violence against women.
US-Cuba migration talks to resume
BBC Tue, 14 Jul 09 11:08:25 BST
The US and Cuba are to restart talks on immigration at the United Nations in New York. It is part of a wider US approach of engagement with the Communist island.
UN: lingering global recession possible
PRESSTV Thu, 28 May 2009 04:31:59 GMT
A prolonged global recession remains possible beyond 2010 in spite of massive government stimulus packages the United Nations says.
Bill Clinton tapped for UN mission in Haiti
PRESSTV Tue, 19 May 2009 04:34:42 GMT
The United Nations has named two-time US president Bill Clinton as the international body's special envoy to Haiti.
UN condemns military rule in Fiji
BBC Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:00:47 GMT
The United Nations Security Council condemns Fiji's military rule, calling for elections as soon as possible.
US to fight 'anti-Israeli crap' at UN
PRESSTV Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:34:50 GMT
The US envoy to the United Nations says that Washington has a duty to fight the growing anti-Israeli sentiments in the world.
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Video: U.N. 2012 Preview
CBSNEWS Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:05:31 EST
No one could have predicted the dramatic changes in the international political landscape last year and in 2012 there will be many pressing unresolved crisis that diplomats at the United Nations will still have to workout. Up To The Minute correspondent Frank Ucciardo sat down for exclusive interviews with three of the security council's key U.N. ambassadors.
Protests continue in Yemen as UN tries to restore calm
REUTERS Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:18:00 GMT
Dec. 11 - The United Nations' envoy to Yemen meets government officials in Taiz, as protesters in Sanaa call for resignation of President Saleh.. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Anti-Shell activists protest in Durban
REUTERS Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:03:00 GMT
Nov 30 - Canadian environmental activists demand Royal Dutch Shell puts people first during a protest in Durban, as United Nations climate talks enter their third day. Nick Rowlands reports.
Video: From the Archives: The world at 6 billion
MSNBC.MSN Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:45:38 GMT
Oct. 12, 1999 was the day designated by the United Nations as the day the world population reached six billion. NBC’s Tom Brokaw and Kevin Tibbles reports. (Nightly News)
UN Report: Israel to blame for UN Building attacks
YOUTUBE 6 May 2009
UN Finds Israel responsible for the attacks on it's buildings in the "Cast Lead" Palestinian attack. It is now compiling a WAR-CRIMES report that will look at BOTH sides of the conflict.
Walkout was STAGED: British Ambassador Peter Gooderham admits
YOUTUBE 23 Apr 2009
British Ambassador Peter Gooderham admits that the VAST MAJORITY of the delegates met in the morning and agreed to walkout on the speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if Israel was mentioned!. What...
Ahmadinejad: Those who walked out were "arrogant and selfish"
YOUTUBE 22 April 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned the advocates of "freedom of speech" about the sincerity of their conviction.

After Israeli advocates staged a walkout in the...
UN Call for investigation into shelling of Civilian shelter at Zeitoun
WORLDPRESSNETWORK 9 Jan 2009
Allegra Pacheco from the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
has called for an investigation into an incident in Zeitoun, Gaza City.

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Israel and international law - Bennis: Calling a TV station pro-Hamas does not make it a military target
THEREALNEWS 8 Jan 2008
On the eleventh day of the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, two UN schools were bombed by Israeli jets. The schools were housing people who had been displaced from their homes as...
Al Jazeera analyses Bush's checkpoint gaffe - 10 Jan 08
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As George Bush, the US president, tours Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories Al Jazeera discusses the significance of his attempted joke regarding checkpoints in the West...

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