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.
Zimbabwe’s agricultural production is estimated to have risen significantly, but many people still face problems finding basic foods, the UN says.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon called for a reform of international financial institutions on Wednesday at the start of a UN conference.
Japan has won the ”Fossil of the Day Award” for being the country that has do the most to disrupt progress at UN climate change talks, say NGOs.
France and the United Nations both warned on Tuesday against military intervention to resolve Madagascar’s political crisis.
Somalis fleeing war and hunger at home are pouring into neighbouring Kenya at an average rate of 7 000 a month, the UN said on Thursday.
Zimbabwe needs -million in urgent humanitarian help in 2009, as the country struggles to attract Western aid in an attempt to emerge from a decade
North Korea test-fired another short-range missile off its east coast on Friday and threatened more ”self-defence measures”.