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Long Journey In Battle Against Terrorism
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 1 month ago
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This range of experience allows the United Nations to address terrorism as part of our broader mission to promote development, human rights and peace. It also promotes synergies and information-sharing, and allows each entity to maximize its comparative...
Tags: Irene Khan, Amnesty International, United Nations Headquarters, United Nations News
U.N. urges haste in Iraqi elections law
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 month ago
Credibility The United Nations expressed concern over the lack of clarity in the Iraqi election law with less than three months to go before January elections. Iraqi lawmakers last week adjourned without reaching agreements on a revised election law.
Tags: elections law, United Nations News, Iraqi, expressed concern
Chirac demands action on fake medicines
Cotonou :: Benin | about 1 month ago
Credibility Mr Chirac is set on Monday to unveil in Cotonou in Benin a declaration signed by African and Asian heads of state calling for a United Nations convention to fight fake medicines by imposing tough penalties, strengthening manufacturing and distribution...
UNITY PLEA: Grenada PM calls for deeper integration
Cuba :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility When you think about world issues and think about how Grenada or Trinidad or Jamaica or St. Vincent would vote, generally, the position is quite similar. “I’m saying, look, we could come up with a structure – it’s a regional government. We could have...
Tags: Caribbean, United Nations News, global economic, UN General Assembly, generally assembly
Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon condemns Iranian nuclear ambitions
Toronto :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility Canada's foreign affairs minister showed his displeasure with Iran for the second time in a week, using a speech to the United Nations to condemn the country's nuclear program. Lawrence Cannon told the UN in a speech Saturday evening that Canada is deeply...
Tags: united nations, Foreign Affairs of Canada, Lawrence Cannon, Iran, United Nations News, affairs minister, UN General Assembly, Canada, Toronto
Máxima special advisor to UN head
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Máxima's role will be to advise Ban Ki-moon on how to make banks accessible to everyone, including in developing countries where it is often impossible to open a bank account or borrow money. The princess will give a speech in her new role in New York...
Tags: United Nations News, New York City
Investors Against Climate Change
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility We normally think of capitalists as ravaging the Earth with profit in their eyes. While that still might be true, 181 of the world’s largest investors have issued a united call for action against climate change, most importantly a binding treaty to cut...
Tags: climate change, global reach, urged member, United Nations News, New York City
UN envoy touring Sri Lanka camps
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 2 months ago
Credibility Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe has visited the camps in Jaffna and is now heading to the biggest camp, Menik Farm. Mr Pascoe is in Sri Lanka for talks with the government on the post-conflict situation in the country. He is...
Tags: Jaffna Sri Lanka Army, north Sri Lanka, Mr. Lynn Pascoe, political affairs, secretary general, sri lankan, Colombo, United Nations News, official arrived, detention camps, Sri Lanka
Starvation ravages East Africa
Nairobi :: Kenya | 3 months ago
Credibility A food crisis has swept through war-torn Somalia and neighbouring Kenya, forcing millions of people to seek aid, and the World Food Program to call for emergency funds to fill a deepening financial gap. "It's the same throughout the region," said Oxfam...
Tags: Kenya, UN World Food Programme, United Nations News, millions kenyans
'Flash floods in Pakistan kill at least 27'
Geneva :: Switzerland | 3 months ago
Credibility GENEVA: At least 27 people have died in northwestern Pakistan and nine are missing in flash floods since the weekend that have also destroyed houses, crops and livestock, the United Nations said on Tuesday. "The final toll could be higher," Elisabeth...
Tags: Swabi, Mardan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, United Nations News, west pakistan, flash floods
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