Full Coverage: United Nations

31.05.2006 WASHINGTON, DC, May 31 (OneWorld) - A dramatic shift of funds and priorities is needed to stem the tide of the global AIDS pandemic, said women's health advocates in Washington, DC last week, marking the 25th anniversary of the disease's discovery.

29.05.2006 Women’s unpaid housework may be of critical importance in the determination of household wellbeing, but unfortunately it does not get as much recognition as paid work does. In order to get such recognition, many recent studies are advocating an inclusion of the imputed value of women’s unpaid work in the construction of national accounts (see, for example, Levy Institute-UNDP, 2005). Even if women were able to achieve official recognition of their work, still their bargaining power within the household would likely be lower than that of men if they are not able to make monetary contributions to the joint resources of the household.

29.05.2006 Delegates at a United Nations sponsored-conference on climate change have agreed on how to pursue negotiations on further cuts in greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, officials who participated in the first round of talks concluded in Bonn, Germany, today, said in a statement.

29.05.2006 Reacting to reported plans by the Government of Pakistan to demolish thousands of dwellings and evict their inhabitants as part of a massive construction project, a United Nations human rights expert today called for a halt to operations as well as stepped-up efforts to avert homelessness as a result of the initiative.

28.05.2006 UNITED NATIONS, May 27 (OneWorld) - Wrapping up a major meeting of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues here Friday, indigenous leaders called for a key UN human rights body to consider taking new steps to meet their concerns.

26.05.2006

Jeffrey Sachs on Poverty

One of the world's top economists offers a blueprint for transforming the developing world.

25.05.2006 Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Søren Jessen-Petersen today called on all concerned to refrain from propagating misinformation on the security situation in Kosovo particularly with respect to the Kosovo Serb community.

24.05.2006 The United Nations has launched a $300m (£159m) rebuilding plan to help tens of thousands of Pakistanis displaced by last October's devastating earthquake.

24.05.2006 UNITED NATIONS, May 23 (OneWorld) - As policy makers from around the world gather here to attend a major United Nations conference on fisheries, a prominent environmental group has renewed its demand for a global effort to stem so-called pirate fishing and a worldwide moratorium on high seas fishing by commercial companies using bottom trawlers.

23.05.2006 The three-month plan, likely to be approved at the Rome headquarters of the U.N. agency this week, envisions 3,800 tonnes of rice and flour being delivered to the region by trucks, mules and porters, WFP deputy country director Jean-Pierre de Margerie told IPS.

19.05.2006 A senior United Nations official began the first high-level talks, in more than two years, between the world body and the Government of Myanmar, bearing a clear message about the need to restore democracy and full human rights in the South Asian country.

19.05.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 (OneWorld) - The U.S. government has lost track of over 200,000 machine guns that were supposed to be used by the Iraqi police, according to a prominent human rights watchdog calling for tougher international regulations on arms dealings.

19.05.2006 Peter Gantz's article suggesting a NATO force to arrest the Darfur genocide is one of the few concrete suggestions for actually defeating genocide. Sadly, the UN seems incapable of...

18.05.2006 UNESCO director general Koichiro Matsuura has hailed the test of the region-wide tsunami warning system in the Pacific Ocean and congratulated the nations that participated in the coordinated effort.

18.05.2006 Launching the Early Recovery Plan for Pakistan the United Nations Development Programmes, Resident Representative Jan Vandemoortele and Pakistans UN Ambassador Munir Akram sought $300 million from donor nations to rehabilitate the survivors of earthquake.

18.05.2006 Aimed at ending child hunger by 2015, TNT India in partnership with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is organising a fund-raising event, "Walk the World", in the Delhi.

17.05.2006 The World Bank said the NGOs in Bangladesh should not be involved in political activities like elections to uphold their achievements made so far, reports UNB. “Direct involvement in politics is not under the purview of their activities… the focus of their activities should be on social development,” World Bank’s senior economist in Dhaka Hassan Zaman said.

11.05.2006 UNITED NATIONS, May 10 (OneWorld) - The world's leading rights advocacy groups have welcomed the results of Tuesday's elections at the United Nations that have led to the formation of a new international leadership to defend human rights.

09.05.2006 A senior UN official has begun talks with senior Nepalese officials to explore a possible UN role in the country's proposed peace process.

05.05.2006 Maja Daruwala, Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, has called for careful scrutiny of candidates that are standing for election to the United Nation’s new Human Rights Council on 9th May, 2006. She said that the election of its members will set the Council’s course for many years to come but there are countries standing for election that do not protect human rights within their own borders.