The UN has warned that failure to meet global poverty-reduction goals by a 2015 deadline will spawn increased instability and violence.
Hundreds of civilians are feared to have died in a surge of fighting between the Sudanese army and rebels in Darfur, a UN source said on Monday.
Burma’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest, keeping her in detention.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced out of Haiti, but the suffering wrought by last month’s earthquake has intensified calls for his return.
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/ 19 February 2010
Report estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment.
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/ 18 February 2010
Two top UN officials on Wednesday warned that withdrawing UN peacekeepers from Chad would hurt the area’s civilian population.
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/ 16 February 2010
Rwandan Hutu rebels murdered seven women in the east of the DRC, the head of the United Nations mission in the country, Alan Doss, said on Tuesday.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Tuesday that world powers would regret any moves to impose new sanctions on Iran.
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/ 9 February 2010
Iran began making higher-grade nuclear fuel on Tuesday, and the Pentagon said the US wanted a UN Security Council resolution on Iran "within weeks".
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/ 30 January 2010
Haiti’s desperate earthquake survivors faced a new deadly threat on Friday as the UN reported a rise in cases of diarrhea, measles and tetanus.
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/ 19 January 2010
US troops protected aid handouts and the UN sought extra peacekeepers in Haiti on Monday as looters emptied shops as survivors received medical care.
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/ 17 December 2009
UN climate talks move into the final two-day straight on Thursday blighted by bitter wrangling that could wreck efforts to draw up a sweeping pact.
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/ 14 December 2009
Africa’s frustration at the United Nations climate summit boiled over on Monday as delegates walked out of key talks.
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/ 14 December 2009
A UN-backed military operation to oust rebels from eastern Congo has caused more civilian casualties than damage to rebels, rights groups said.
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/ 7 December 2009
The biggest climate meeting in history opened on Monday with hosts Denmark saying an unmissable opportunity to protect the planet was ”within reach”.
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/ 30 November 2009
The UN called on richer governments on Monday to provide ,1-billion in 2010 to fund humanitarian assistance for 48-million people in 25 countries.
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/ 30 November 2009
Violence against women is deeply rooted in Afghanistan, where they are becoming less active in public life, a UN official said on Monday.
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/ 27 November 2009
An armed movement calling itself the Patriots-Resistance of Dongo on Friday claimed responsibility for firing at a UN helicopter in the DRC.
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/ 26 November 2009
The three members of a UN commission of inquiry into a massacre in Guinea arrived on Wednesday to pursue their investigation.
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/ 24 November 2009
The UN secretary general says peacekeepers in Darfur are facing increasing threats from fighting between government forces and rebels.
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/ 16 November 2009
A UN summit on food security vowed on Monday to take ”urgent action” to eliminate hunger affecting more than one billion people worldwide.
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/ 12 November 2009
The UN head of peacekeeping in the DRC has rejected accusations that the organisation is complicit in war crimes Congolese troops allegedly committed.
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/ 5 November 2009
The UN said on Thursday it would start evacuating hundreds of its international staff from Afghanistan after an attack by Taliban militants.
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/ 2 November 2009
The UN will suspend operational support for certain DRC army units it believes have deliberately killed more than 60 civilians this year.
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/ 29 October 2009
A UN torture expert expelled from Zimbabwe on Thursday said he feared the country’s unity government could fall apart.
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/ 28 October 2009
Zimbabwe has withdrawn an unprecedented invitation to a UN independent expert on torture at the last moment, the UN said on Wednesday.
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/ 28 October 2009
Taliban militants killed six UN staff in an assault on a guesthouse in Kabul on Wednesday, raising questions about security for the November 7 run-off
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/ 23 October 2009
Israel’s foreign minister has urged the UN not to send the Goldstone report on Gaza war crimes to the Security Council or the General Assembly.
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/ 21 October 2009
Africa’s population is set to grow faster than in any other part of the world in the coming decades, and to double by 2050.
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/ 20 October 2009
About 5 400 women have reported being raped this year in one province of the DRC, the UN said on Tuesday.
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/ 19 October 2009
Guinea’s isolated military junta has pledged to cooperate with a UN inquiry into a massacre of opposition demonstrators last month.
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/ 14 October 2009
Israel braced on Wednesday for what is expected to be a bruising UN debate on a report that accuses the Jewish state and Hamas of war crimes.