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Ensuring UN Fulfils Its Mandate On The Ground
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 4 hours ago
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You are in charge of a remarkable number of working parts,” he said in his remarks via teleconference, commending the envoys for “keeping them all moving in a coherent, productive direction.” Mr. Ban committed to filling vacancies, speeding up the appointment...
Tags: New York City, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kabul, Organizations, United Nations, World government, Environment
Military Action Alone Will Not Defeat Piracy
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 5 hours ago
Credibility He noted that in recent years, pirates operating from Somalia have been hijacking ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean and holding their crews and cargo for ransom. However, thanks to the resolve of the IMO and the Security Council, the international...
Tags: Somalia, Mogadishu, World Food Programme, Gulf of Aden, United Nations, Environment, Piracy in Somalia, International criminal law, Piracy
Lebanon body confirmed as Briton
Beirut :: Lebanon | about 10 hours ago
Credibility The body of Alec Collett was one of two dug up by British experts last week in Bekaa Valley, the Foreign Office said. The freelance journalist was 64 when he was snatched at gunpoint from a car near Beirut airport in 1985...UK embassy staff in Beirut...
Tags: Lebanon, Alec Collett, United Nations, U.N., ban ki, Beirut, Arab League member states, Levant, Abu Nidal, Bashar al-Assad, Hafez al-Assad, War Conflict, Baathism, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian militant groups, Palestinian refugee, Arab-Israeli conflict, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Collett, Mediterranean, Beqaa Valley, Great Rift Valley, Politics, Al-Banna, Shlomo Argov, Aita
UN concerned at how Tamils confined to government camps are being returned home
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | about 17 hours ago
Credibility The U.N. humanitarian chief on Monday called Sri Lanka's decision to release Tamil refugees confined to government camps since the end of the country's 25-year civil war "good news" but said the United Nations is concerned about how they are being returned...
Tags: Sri Lanka, United Nations, U.N., government camps, tamils refugees, Colombo, Tamil Eelam, India ￢ﾀﾓ Sri Lanka relations, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Refugee, Dravidian peoples, Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, Politics of Sri Lanka, War Conflict, Social Issues, Politics, Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Civil War, Outline of Sri Lanka, Persecution, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Vavuniya, Forced migration, Internally displaced person, Tharmapuram, Ban Ki-moon
Libya And UN Enter Pact To Boost Food Security
Tripoli :: Libya | 1 day ago
Credibility Libya And UN Agency Enter Pact To Boost Food Security, Sustainable Development New York, Nov 20 2009 12:10PM The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Libya have agreed on a $71 million programme to boost cooperation over the next...
Tags: Libya, food security, Tripoli, Diouf, United Nations, Sustainability, World Summit on Food Security, Business Finance, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food politics, Environment
United Nations: Global Warming Responsible For More Orgasms
Since the Earth's temperature is cooling, the environmentalist agency's have been caught fudging data and the majority of the U.S. population doesn't give a fat crap about any of it, the United Nations is trying a new tactic to put an evil...
Tags: United Nations, Climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas, prostitues, hookers, prostitution, Philippines, Manila, Earth, 19th century, 21st century, Carbon finance, Environment, allnews
U.S. Taps Tough Critic for U.N. Council
Priština :: Kosovo | 2 days ago
Credibility Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, shown here, has been tapped to be the Obama administration's representative on the U.N. Human Rights Council. (Facebook) The California scholar and Obama donor tapped to be the first U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights...
Tags: U.N. Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, U.S, Kosovo, Priština, Human rights, United Nations Human Rights Council, Social Issues, Hillel Neuer, Barack Obama, United Nations, Politics
Guatemala slowly confronts widespread rape of women
Guatemala City :: Guatemala | 3 days ago
Credibility At least 10,000 women were victims of sexual violence last year. Moving up the ranks of Guatemala's ruthless gangs can be as simple as robbing a store at knife point or as brutal as shooting a city bus driver...In January, a group of gang members ripped...
Tags: Guatemalan, Guatemala City, Marisole, sexual violence, United Nations, Latin America, widespread rapes, Guatemala, Gender studies, Domestic violence, Women's rights, War rape, Sex crimes, Violence, Rape, Social Issues, Law Crime
Who's Afraid of World Government?
Lawrence :: NY :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility A few weeks ago, Glenn Beck of the Fox News Channel, with that hysterical flourish that has made him the darling of right-wing extremists, proclaimed: "America, if . . . you're not really into that whole One World Government thing, watch out."
Tags: world governance, House Un-American Activities Committee, United Nations, United States, Americans, governance movement, Lawrence, World federalists, Political parties in the United States, World Federalist Movement, Citizens for Global Solutions, Global governance, Globalization, World government, International relations, Politics
Analysis: Humanitarian action under siege
Dakar :: Senegal | 3 days ago
Credibility On the first-ever World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, when the UN spotlights fallen aid workers and growing humanitarian needs, experts say a trend toward integrating aid goals into broader social and security agendas has contributed to an erosion of...
Tags: humanitarian space, IRIN, Sudan, Senegal, Dakar, Aid, United Nations, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International, Humanitarian Futures Programme, Humanitarian aid, Humanitarian principles, Politics, War Conflict
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