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By Bari Bates
BRUSSELS - If the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world.
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Political and Economic Turmoil Threaten Women's Progress
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UNITED NATIONS - As UN Women celebrated its first birthday, its executive director Michelle Bachelet stressed that political upheveal and shrinking budgets are no excuse to push back the hard-won gains made by the women's movement globally.
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Russia Sticks to Its Guns Against Heavy Hitters Backing Syria
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After Durban, Latin America Looks Towards Rio+20
By Ede Ijjasz-Vásquez*
WASHINGTON - After the climate change negotiations in Durban, South Africa in December, there is space to continue advancing in the short and medium term. Now the attention of Latin America and the rest of the world is turned towards the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development taking place this June in Rio de Janeiro.
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MANAGUA - Ignacia Matute looks back nostalgically on the days when the hills around her home in northwestern Nicaragua were blanketed in green, and she woke every morning to the sounds of birds singing in the treetops and the rushing waters of the nearly Coco River.
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U.N. Panel Launches Blueprint for Sustainable Development
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U.N. Arms Embargoes Busted by Ships from the West
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - When the Security Council penalises governments with economic sanctions and arms embargoes, the world body's 193 member states are mandated to help implement the wide-ranging punitive measures imposed on these countries.
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Senior Management Heads Roll at World Body
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - As Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon continues his search for a new team of senior managers for his second five-year term in office which began Jan. 1, two more heads have rolled at the world body.
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Syria Security Forces "Destroy Homes" in Hama
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DOHA, Qatar - At least six people have been killed as Syrian security forces continued attacks on protest hubs across the country, activists say.
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War Crimes Immunity for Ousted Leaders Under Fire
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - As ousted political and military leaders in the Middle East continue to seek immunity from war crimes prosecutions, the United Nations and international human rights groups are taking an increasingly tough stance against such legislation in Yemen, Egypt, and possibly in a post-conflict Syria.
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Only Civil Society Can Save Rio+20, Say Activists
By Mario Osava*
RIO DE JANEIRO - Large-scale social mobilisation, including street protests and parallel activities, is the only thing can save the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) from ending in nothing but frustration, according to activists and analysts.
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U.N. "Outraged" at Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers in Haiti
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The Caribbean nation of Haiti, still struggling to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake, is once again trying to cope with the sexual abuse of minors by U.N. peacekeepers - for the third time in five years.
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U.N. Predicts One Billionth Tourist Arrival in 2012
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which commemorated the birth of the world's seven billionth baby last October, is predicting the arrival of the one billionth tourist later this year - perhaps in Europe, the United States, South America or Asia.
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How the U.S. Manipulates Key U.N. Appointments
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announces his new team of senior officials shortly, his appointments will be based not only on merit but also on demands made by the five big powers - the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia - as well as key donors who sustain U.N. agencies through voluntary contributions.
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From Peacekeeping to Partisan Policing?
By Paul Weinberg
TORONTO - The image of United Nations peacekeeping operations has become seriously tarnished in recent years, say some independent experts who monitor the U.N. missions around the world.
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HAITI
Displaced Mark a Tragedy That Could Have Been Yesterday
By Jane Regan and Sylvestre Fils Dorcilus*
PORT-AU-PRINCE - For two years now, since her husband was one of the estimated 230,000 Haitians killed in the massive earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010 and she and her three children became homeless, little has changed for Dieulia St. Juste.
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