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/ 11 November 2010
Over 700 women, men and children were raped when Angola expelled thousands of people back to the DRC over the past two
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/ 4 November 2010
The declining rankings of SA in key development and competitiveness indicators points to a massive policy failure by government, the DA said.
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/ 3 November 2010
Somali pirates have increased the number of successful hijackings in 2010, become more violent and expanded their attack zone, the UN says.
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/ 23 October 2010
Tension arising from the UN Security Council’s reliance on African nations to supply peacekeepers came into sharper focus on Friday.
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/ 22 October 2010
Climate change is set to drive the spread of invasive plant and animals species, threatening forests, fisheries and crops, a report said on Friday.
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/ 18 October 2010
The world cannot afford to allow nature’s riches to disappear, the United Nations said on Monday.
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/ 15 October 2010
Celebrities and government officials called on Friday for urgent collective action to eradicate world hunger.
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/ 15 October 2010
United Nations troops are to be moved to the tense north-south Sudan frontier to head off violence ahead of a referendum.
UN troops could create limited buffer zones in hot spots along the border of north and south Sudan before a referendum on the south’s independence.
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/ 23 September 2010
Governments are on the brink of breaking a Millennium Development Goal promise of a decent quality basic education for all by 2015.
United States President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for new ways to tackle global poverty.
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/ 23 September 2010
An attack by Israeli commandos on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May was unlawful, a panel of international experts said on Wednesday.
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/ 16 September 2010
As a significant resolution hits the table at the UN Human Rights Council this month, SA’s vote will make all the difference, argue activists.
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/ 14 September 2010
The Uganda army on Tuesday dismissed accusations in a leaked UN draft report that it committed war crimes in the DRC in the 1990s.
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/ 9 September 2010
The UN urged Rwanda on Wednesday not to end its peacekeeping operations in Sudan as it sought to defuse rising tensions over a leaked UN report.
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/ 2 September 2010
UN peacekeepers say they have stepped up patrols in a region of the DRC where the number of mass rape victims has increased to more than 240.
Relief efforts in flood-ravaged Pakistan are being stretched by the "unprecedented scale" of the disaster, the United Nations said on Thursday.
The number of people in Somalia needing humanitarian assistance has dropped by a quarter to two million over the past six months, the UN says.
The deputy head of the UN mission in the DRC has called on the international community for a "big financial effort" to help the country.
Only a small fraction of the six million Pakistanis desperate for food and clean water have received any help as the UN battles donor fatigue.
The United Nations warned on Monday that up to 3,5-million children were at risk from water-borne diseases in Pakistan’s floods.
Authorities warned of more flooding this week in Pakistan and heavy rain lashed victims living in makeshift camps Monday.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon flew into Pakistan on Sunday to visit areas ravaged by floods and urged the world to speed up aid.
The United Nations on Wednesday warned of a second wave of deaths from floods in Pakistan unless help arrives soon.
Nearly 1,7-million Zimbabweans will require food assistance in the 2010/11 season, United Nations agencies said in a report on Tuesday.
Civilian casualties have risen by 31% in the first half of 2010, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said on Tuesday.
The UN rushed a top envoy to Pakistan on Thursday to address the urgent plight of 3,2-million people hit by the worst floods in generations.
Advocates claim that the United Nations "has failed women", and that a new women’s agency was already lacking transparency.
Climate-change campaigners on Wednesday welcomed plans to alter the way changes to the Kyoto protocol are made in an effort to salvage negotiations.
Invoking Nelson Mandela’s legacy, SA’s foreign minister made an appeal on Friday for her country’s bid to secure a non-permanent seat on the council.
The people of Somalia are facing an increasing lack of security and a humanitarian situation that is worsening daily, a UN official said on Friday.
Sri Lanka on Thursday ruled out giving visas to members of a United Nations panel looking into possible war crimes.