Overseas news archive
March 2006
08.03.2006
More than 20 million people in the Horn of Africa are at risk of famine in conditions which the head of the World Food Programme described yesterday as the worst in his experience
more...From: Guardian Unlimited Related topics/regions: [Central Africa] [East Africa] [Emergency relief] [United Nations] |
08.03.2006
Reducing methane emissions by 20 per cent could prevent 370,000 deaths worldwide between 2010 and 2030, say researchers.
more...From: SciDev.Net Related topics/regions: [Agriculture] [Climate change] [Atmosphere] |
08.03.2006
The severe escalation of violence against women in Iraq must be addressed by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, an international womens human rights organisation said today.
more...* Yemini women call for a 30 per cent quota in upcoming elections From: MADRE Related topics/regions: [Iraq] [Gender] [Conflict] |
08.03.2006
Thousands of Kenyans took to the streets of Nairobi and four major towns in defence of press freedom following a widely condemned raid on the premises of a newspaper publishing company by hooded police commandos.
more...From: allAfrica.com Related topics/regions: [Kenya] [Media] |
08.03.2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday presented proposals for a far-reaching overhaul of UN operations ranging from the establishment of a 2,500-strong core of mobile peacekeeping professionals to multimillion dollar investments in training and technology.
more...From: United Nations Related topics/regions: [United Nations] |
07.03.2006
On the eve of a crisis trade summit in London, Brazil's President Lula da Silva was urged today to resist wealthy nations' pressure to agree a trade deal that would threaten the livelihoods of millions of the world's poorest people.
more...Related topics/regions: [Brazil] [United Kingdom] [Trade] Image: Trade Justice campaigner, London © Millennium Campaign
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07.03.2006
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the organisation's 191 member states have been castigated by a coalition of women's organisations for paying "lip service" to gender parity in the world body.
more...From: Inter Press Service Related topics/regions: [Gender] [United Nations] Image: United Nations
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07.03.2006
Governments should immediately declare support for a proposed moratorium on high seas bottom trawling, according to Remi Parmentier, political advisor to the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition.
more...From: Deep Sea Conservation Coalition Related topics/regions: [Fisheries] [Oceans] |
07.03.2006
The Botswana government faced tough questions from members of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva over its eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
more...From: Survival International Related topics/regions: [Botswana] [Indigenous rights] [United Nations] |
06.03.2006
A contract announced today for the worlds first insurance cover for a humanitarian emergency "heralds the beginning of what may be an entirely new way of financing natural disaster aid".
more...Related topics/regions: [Emergency relief] [United Nations] Image: Sri Lankan children in emergency camp © Peter Armstrong
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06.03.2006
Activists have slammed a Syrian government decision to close the countrys first human rights centre, which opened in mid-February with support from the European Union.
more...From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related topics/regions: [Syria] [Human rights] |
06.03.2006
After a decade of aggressive expansion of GM soybeans in Latin America, the results are severely damaging to the environment, to food security, to productive investment and to people's lives, according to two leading agricultural academics.
more...* Their call was reinforced today - as Brazil's President Lula begins a state visit to Britain - by an Amazon tribe's claim that 'Soya is killing us' Related topics/regions: [Latin America & Caribbean] [Agriculture] [Genetics] Image: Anti-GM campaign
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06.03.2006
Hydropower will help reduce Africas energy poverty, a ministerial-level meeting on harnessing the continent's rivers is told today, but only if there is more emphasis on providing benefits for the poorest people and reducing damage to ecosystems.
more...From: Oxfam Great Britain, WWF International, WaterAid Related topics/regions: [Africa] [Energy] |
06.03.2006
Repeated postponements of court cases in Sri Lanka are upsetting the country's legal system, a leading rights group warned after a High Court judge said it was his karume (karma) to be a judge postponing cases.
more...From: Asian Human Rights Commission Related topics/regions: [Sri Lanka] [Law] |
05.03.2006
British Ministers are trying to scrap an international agreement banning the world's most controversial genetic modification of crops - "terminator technology" - a move which threatens to increase hunger in the Third World.
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Agriculture] [Genetics] Image: People say NO to GMO: Are you listening, Tony? © OneWorld
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03.03.2006
The Botswana Government has been accused of trying to undermine Kalahari Bushmen's efforts to raise money for a costly legal case over their eviction from land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
more...From: Survival International Related topics/regions: [Botswana] [Indigenous rights] Image: 'Botswana diamonds, Bushman despair' campaign, Survival International
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03.03.2006
When Liberias newly elected President visits Abuja today, President Olusegun Obasanjo should announce that Nigeria will surrender ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor to face trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Campaign Against Impunity said.
more...Related topics/regions: [Nigeria] [Liberia] [Justice and crime] Image: Arms surrender in Liberia © United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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03.03.2006
The World Bank has temporarily suspended financial support for a major transport initiative in Mumbai because of dissatisfaction over the treatment of displaced people.
more...From: World Bank Related topics/regions: [India] [Transport] [Finance] Image: Mumbai slums: the poorest people are among those most affected by the city's major transport project © Peter Armstrong
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03.03.2006
The heads of three UN agencies have urged the international community to match political progress in Africa's Great Lakes region with a new commitment to end the suffering of the millions of people forgotten by the rest of the world.
more...From: United Nations Children's Fund Related topics/regions: [Central Africa] [Emergency relief] [United Nations] |
03.03.2006
Niger will be hit by critical food shortages within two to three months, according to Norwegian Church Aid.
more...From: ReliefWeb UN OCHA Related topics/regions: [Niger] [Emergency relief] |
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