Full Coverage: United Nations

28.03.2008 Battle in India against polio is far from over. This year until February, 82 new cases have been detected despite the fact that the country has the largest ever mass immunisation campaign in the world going on since 2003.

18.03.2008 A new report by International Labour Organisation says that cases of underage recruitment by the Burmese army are increasing, maintaining that the problem is far more serious than the figures suggest. Human rights groups term military junta’s claim of trying to end the scourge of forced conscription a blatant lie.

07.03.2008 Development agencies lack funds for successful reintegration, says UN Under-Secretary-General Radhika Coomaraswamy. Rehabilitation of child soldiers goes beyond the act of demobilisation from armies. Faith organisations and education can help communities receive these children back into their fold, says she.

06.03.2008 A policymaker who advocates population and gender issues, Dame Billie Antoinette Miller of Barbados, and a New York-based NGO that helps save women’s lives in developing countries have won this year’s United Nations Population Award.

01.03.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Mar 1 (OneWorld) - Further delay in the payment of past U.S. dues to the United Nations could lead to negative consequences for global peacekeeping operations and development programs, independent groups are warning.