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/ 28 October 2008
UN peacekeepers prepared to evacuate about 50 foreign aid workers from a town in violence-ravaged eastern DRC on Tuesday as Tutsi rebels advanced.
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/ 27 October 2008
UN and African Union representatives are meeting in Pretoria on Monday to discuss how the world body can support regional peacekeeping efforts.
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/ 23 October 2008
Growing inequality in US cities could lead to widespread social unrest and increased mortality, says a new UN report on the urban environment.
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/ 22 October 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday appealed to United Nations member states to ”end the slaughter” resulting from the uncontrolled small arms trade.
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/ 14 October 2008
Heavy fighting in the eastern DRC has driven at least 1 700 people from a refugee camp, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 October 2008
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed concern about the impasse in a Zimbabwe power-sharing accord.
Gareth Evans’s latest book, Responsibility to Protect, offers a guide to protecting citizens against violence.
Imagine the scene: the United Nations General Assembly meets to discuss a resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Last month the world’s leaders gathered again at the UN to assess midway progress towards achieving targets known as the Millennium Development Goals.
When the United Nations meets this week to discuss the Millennium Development Goals maternal mortality will be high on the agenda.
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/ 28 September 2008
More than 350 000 small-scale farmers in Africa and Central America will soon begin selling produce to the UN.
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/ 25 September 2008
Zimbabwe’s president hopes that a power-sharing agreement with rivals will lead the West to ease sanctions on his country.
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/ 24 September 2008
Michael Keating reports on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals at the midpoint.
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/ 23 September 2008
Civil society members are disappointed that the World Bank investment in oil in the Doba oil fields in southern Chad has broken down.
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/ 22 September 2008
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has appealed to rich countries to honour their 2005 pledge to more than double their aid to the African continent.
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/ 22 September 2008
Heads of state, private-sector leaders and development agencies will this week assess the global fight against poverty.
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/ 18 September 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has appealed to the UN Human Rights Council to show concern for protecting Israelis from Palestinian attacks.
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/ 18 September 2008
Only 13 000 of the 26 000 peacekeepers authorised for Darfur will be deployed by the end of the year, far below the 80% target.
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/ 18 September 2008
Army forces and insurgents were battling in a number of villages in eastern DRC on Wednesday in the latest fighting to flout a truce, the UN said.
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/ 11 September 2008
Prosecutors have called for a 12-year jail sentence to be handed down to a former UN mechanic who is charged with with raping about 20 African girls.
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/ 9 September 2008
A UN human rights expert on Tuesday accused the government in Khartoum of indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Darfur.
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/ 9 September 2008
Development is the only way to ensure peace, South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has told the UN financing development summit in New York.
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/ 9 September 2008
With a population of more than 50-million, the country has become the world’s biggest prison camp. Pressure is building on the UN to act.
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/ 7 September 2008
United Nations peacekeepers said on Saturday they had negotiated the departure of a rebel army from a village in the DRC’s lawless east.
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/ 3 September 2008
All 17 people aboard a humanitarian aid plane died when it crashed into a mountain in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UN said on Wednesday.
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/ 2 September 2008
New UN human rights chief Navanethem Pillay said on Monday she would be impartial in her role but not shy away from confronting rights abusers.
Time is running out in the fight against global warming, the United Nations’s top climate change official warned as new talks got under way.
Experts met in Geneva on Monday to consider ways of stopping scientific advances being converted into more lethal biological weapons.
The UN’s peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire is financing ”1 000 microprojects” to rehabilitate the country’s ex-fighters.
Moscow has to take some of the blame. But it is the West’s policy of liberal interventionism that has fuelled war in Georgia.
The commander of the UN-AU mission in Darfur on Tuesday urged the world community to put pressure on the fragmented insurgency in the region.
A Russian envoy called on Nato to hold an extraordinary Russia-Nato council on Tuesday to discuss the dire situation in Georgia.