Full Coverage: United Nations

30.10.2006 Quinze ganhadores do Prêmio Nobel da Paz - entre eles o Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Óscar Arias e a Anistia Internacional - pedem aos governos que apoiem o Tratado Internacional sobre o Comércio de Armas, no seio da Comissão de Desarmamento e Segurança Internacional (Primeira Comissão) da Assembléia Geral da ONU.

30.10.2006 The Education for All goals focus on the need to provide learning opportunities at every stage in life, from infancy to adulthood. With only nine years remaining before 2015 – the target year for achieving these goals, progress is being made in reducing the number of primary school-age children who are not enrolled in school still distant dream for many children especially from socially disadvantaged households reveals the recent report published by UNESCO “Education for All: Global Monitoring Report 2007

30.10.2006 Despite repeated promises to eradicate hunger, the number of people going hungry continues to grow – now more than 852 million – with a child dying every five seconds from malnutrition and related diseases, said an independent United Nations expert.

30.10.2006 Better communication – including more listening by donors – needs to be a more central part of developments efforts, the head the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has told a major conference on development and communications.

28.10.2006 After 35 rounds of voting with no clear winner, the United States is calling on Venezuela to give up its bid for a United Nations Security Council seat.

26.10.2006 Albania participated in the global STAND UP! campaign to reach a new Guinness world record for the largest number of people standing up at the same time in the fight against poverty.

26.10.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 25 (OneWorld) - Nobel peace prizewinners have joined hands with major human rights groups in urging nations to back U.N. moves to ink a treaty that would curb the illicit trade in small weapons.

24.10.2006 NEW YORK, Oct 24 (OneWorld) - A majority of people around the world reject the use of torture even if it is supposed to extract information that could save lives from terrorism, pollsters say. The finding suggests there is little support at home and abroad for President George W. Bush's defense of the abuse of terror suspects.

24.10.2006 The first comprehensive global study by the United Nations on "Violence Against Children" says around 275 million children worldwide face domestic violence within the "safe" confines of their homes. The study, which look at the the South Asia regional context — finds that India as the country with the “largest number of working children in the world.”

19.10.2006 The Bank's Development Outreach features a special report aimed at raising debate and sharing perspectives on understanding the relationship between human rights and economic development

17.10.2006 The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty falls on 17 October 2006. The UN conmemorate this year on the theme of "Working Together out of Poverty".

16.10.2006 Today, October 16 Global - the day also commemorates the creation of the United Nations World Food Program in 1954. The UN recognizes that today, agriculture has contributed to human civilization by improving nutrition and living standards. It has ensured the production and distribution of agricultural, fishery and forestry products and enough food to feed everyone on this planet. The theme for the World Food Day 2006 is "Investing in agriculture for food security."

13.10.2006 In the Asia-Pacific region, girls' labour, official and unofficial, continues to constitute a major obstacle to accelerating progress towards achieving gender parity and equality in primary and secondary education by 2015. This policy brief summarises the causes and consequences of girls' child labour on their educational opportunities and describes some of the instruments and strategies in place to reduce girls' labour.

12.10.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Oct 12 (OneWorld) - North Korea's nuclear weapon test has spawned widespread denunciation but the fallout also includes divergent positions on how to respond.

11.10.2006 With at least 870,000 people killing themselves each year and 450 million others around the world affected by mental, neurological or behavioural problems at any given time, the United Nations today marked World Mental Health Day with calls for greater attention to be afforded to the causes and treatment of suicide.

10.10.2006 Condemning widespread global violence against women as a human rights violation, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for more political will and financial resources to fight the scourge says Annan.

10.10.2006 At the current rate of decline in the under-5 Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), India is not likely to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of bringing down the IMR to 40 per 1,000 live births for the year 2015, according to a UNICEF report.

10.10.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 9 (OneWorld) - Afghan women's groups are calling for major changes from their government after the murder of a well-known female official in the southern province of Kandahar.

06.10.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Oct 6 (OneWorld) - Global civil society organizations are pressing the 192-nation U.N. General Assembly to recognize indigenous peoples' rights to their land and resources.

06.10.2006 The United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is expected to approve requests from almost 100 countries for $950 million over two years to support programmes to combat the global scourges that kill over 6 million people annually.