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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.
A recent measles outbreak in Eastern and Southern Africa has killed more than 700 people, the UN said on Friday.
Food prices are set to rise as much as 40% over the coming decade amid growing demand from emerging markets and for biofuel production.
The DRC is going through "one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world", the United Nations said on Friday.
Nearly 600 people died in rebel and tribal fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region in May, United Nations officials said on Monday.
Ban Ki-moon has urged all states to sign up to the International Criminal Court and rejected criticism the body was a court for only African crimes.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, the only sitting head of state wanted for war crimes, will be sworn in on Thursday.
More than a decade and billions of dollars after UN peacekeepers deployed to the DRC during a civil war, President Joseph Kabila wants them out.
Four South African peacekeepers who were kidnapped in Darfur over a week ago will be released after election results are out.
Pakistani authorities deliberately failed to properly investigate the 2007 murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, a UN-appointed independent panel said.
Four South African peacekeepers have been kidnapped in Sudan’s Darfur region, in the largest single abduction of foreigners in the war-torn region.
A withdrawal of the UN mission in the DRC in 2011, as sought by Kinshasa, would be "premature," France’s UN ambassador said on Tuesday.
More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday to mark World Water Day.