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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Zimbabwe has withdrawn an unprecedented invitation to a UN independent expert on torture at the last moment, the UN said on Wednesday.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.
Poorer countries’ efforts to fight climate change are being stymied by rich nations’ lack of commitment, the UN said on Thursday.
The United Nations chief says Somalia’s transitional government has successfully rebuffed threats from extremist forces to overthrow it.
Norway has retained its status as the most desirable country to live in, while Niger and Afghanistan scored worst in terms of human development.
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/ 30 September 2009
Access to drugs, counselling and testing for HIV/Aids has increased, but there were still 2,7-million new infections in 2007, a UN report says.
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/ 29 September 2009
A lack of accountability for war crimes committed in the Middle East has reached ”crisis point”, a UN human rights investigator said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 September 2009
The United Nations on Wednesday said it ”strongly condemns” the weekend attack on a village in south Sudan that left 100 people dead.
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/ 22 September 2009
Leaders of about 100 nations met on Tuesday to breathe new life into deadlocked climate change negotiations.
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/ 21 September 2009
The UN human rights agency has pressed Nepal for action against perpetrators of ”torture and disappearances” during a decade-long Maoist rebellion.
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/ 18 September 2009
Jacob Zuma will address the UN General Assembly in New York next week and call for reform of the organisation, the government said on Friday.
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/ 18 September 2009
The United Nations inquiry into last winter’s Gaza war was a ”fixed game”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
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/ 17 September 2009
The head of the UN commission that this week issued a damning report on the Gaza War has rejected Israeli criticism that it was biased.
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/ 16 September 2009
Israel on Wednesday launched a campaign to block what it said were the ”perverse and noxious effects” of a UN report that accused it on war crimes.
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/ 15 September 2009
There is evidence that both the Israeli army and Palestinian militants committed war crimes during the Gaza conflict, the UN said on Tuesday.
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/ 9 September 2009
A top UN official has decried possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the DRC.
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/ 8 September 2009
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki sacked his police chief on Tuesday and sent him to run the post office.
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/ 8 September 2009
Backers of a global pact banning nuclear tests said on Tuesday they would seize on Barack Obama’s disarmament initiatives to further their agenda.
About 150 nations met in Geneva on Monday to discuss how to plug gaps in climate information to help the world cope with global warming.
A US official charged with enforcing UN sanctions on North Korea sought South Korea’s continued support during talks on Monday.
The UN has asked Afghanistan to lift a ban on media reporting of violence during Thursday’s election, saying the Constitution guaranteed a free press.
Suspected Islamist insurgents stormed a United Nations compound overnight in southern Somalia, witnesses said on Monday.
The humanitarian air service run by the UN could face a shutdown next month in key locations owing to a lack of funds, a spokesperson said on Friday.
The announcement that the United Nations has a record $4,8-billion funding gap for its 2009 aid programmes may not strike some observers as news.
Honduras’ ousted president has called on the international community to support him in returning to power after crisis talks broke down.
A United Nations report has warned that the negative economic climate could slow progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, the president said on Friday.