Full Coverage: United Nations

22.11.2006 Substantial progress has been achieved in addressing the issue violence against women over the period. However, there is increased violence in societies today, and a continuing gap between political commitment and adequate resources. The key challenge that remains is to move the issue from awareness that it is a human rights violation and a crime, to making it socially unacceptable and counter to community norms.

21.11.2006 from Maribo blog:
Snippets from the UN FCCC final report. Next meeting: Bonn, Germany in May 2007.

21.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 21 (OneWorld) - A New York-based non-profit stepped up a petition drive Tuesday aimed at pushing the Bush administration to engage the international community to bring peace to Iraq.

21.11.2006 Government forces, rebel groups, armed militia and mercenaries operating in conflicts in at least 12 countries recruit children to serve as soldiers or are responsible for murdering, torturing and committing sexual crimes against them, according to a new report from Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

20.11.2006 "It's an extraordinary feeling to sit in the annual negotiations of the world's governments tackling one of the biggest threats to humankind - and to be surrounded by such a lack of urgency among most delegates", writes Oxfam's Kate Raworth. So what was the image that symbolised this conference? Not what you might expect.

16.11.2006 from Solar Generation blog:
SG have been very active at COP 12 Nairobi conference. Among other things, they've visited the Youth Solar project in one of the slums of Nairobi. Young people there are making small solar panels, which they sell, and the profit is reinvested in youth projects on various issues.

16.11.2006 To reduce poverty, developing countries need to strengthen their social security systems following on the success of industrial countries, an anti-poverty expert said at United Nations.

16.11.2006 UN chief Kofi Annan on Wednesday demanded world leaders give climate change the same priority as they did to wars and to curbing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

16.11.2006 Emitido pelo Conclave de Povos Indígenas, em Nova York, em 12 de novembro de 2006.

16.11.2006 On November 8, for the fifteenth time, the UN General Assembly condemned the inhuman economic sanctions that the United States has maintained against Cuba since July 6, 1960. After the draconian measures adopted on May 6, 2004, and July 10, 2006, the White House continues its irrational and cruel policy by increasing pressure on the Caribbean island

15.11.2006 Warning that by 2040 the world could witness a year in which losses from droughts, storms surges, hurricanes and floods hit $1 trillion, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today called for new kinds of insurance and financing, including public-private partnerships, to help developing countries adapt to climate change.

14.11.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 14 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration's plans to reappoint John Bolton as its top diplomat at the United Nations may run into legal snags, warn lawyers who specialize in U.S. constitutional law.

11.11.2006 from Solar Gen blog:
Solar Gen and the African youth had a chance to present their work at the climate change Kiosk, an initiative to get people engaged in the conference through the web. Check out the podcasts.

10.11.2006 Panama's election to the United Nations Security Council yesterday brought to an end the stalemated contest for the Latin American and Caribbean seat between Guatemala and Venezuela that had been going on since last month.

10.11.2006 In a world of unprecedented wealth, almost 2 million children die each year for want of a glass of clean water and adequate sanitation - HDR 2006.

08.11.2006 sWith an estimated 930,000 new HIV infections in Asia and the Pacific last year, United Nations agencies have called for urgent efforts to prevent the escalating spread of the virus and reduce mortality by better integrating HIV prevention, treatment and care into maternal and newborn health services.

07.11.2006 from It’s Getting Hot In Here blog:
While government delegates hold the 12th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP12), young people from around the world gather to unify their voice and strength in stopping climate change.

06.11.2006 The Internet should be “accessible, usable and safe for all,” Nitin Desai, the Special Adviser for the Secretary-General on Internet Governance said at the end of the four-day event in Athens, which dealt with freedom of expression, access, multilingualism, cyber-crime and a host of other issues.

03.11.2006 Hundreds of financial experts and activists are due to gather in the Canadian city of Halifax this weekend to explore new ways of helping the world's rural poor with small business loans.