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HEALTH: UNAIDS Launches Global Campaign Among Youth
The joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) launched a global campaign Wednesday against the spread of the deadly disease among youth.RIGHTS-CONGO: 180,000 ‘Perfect Murders’? Impossible, Says UN
The perfect murder does not exist, let alone 180,000 perfect murders - the number of persons who disappeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from October 1996 to May 1997, according to the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the DRC.RIGHTS-CONGO: 180,000 ‘Perfect Murders’? Impossible, Says UN
The perfect murder does not exist, let alone 180,000 perfect murders - the number of persons who disappeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from October 1996 to May 1997, according to the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the DRC.DEVELOPMENT-ASIA: ILO Forecasts Socal Suffering from Economic Crisis
Asia's poorer sectors will face worse conditions in 1998 mainly due to inadequate political intervention to confront the region's fnncial crisis to date, forecast the International Labour Organisation (ILO)./RPT/LABOUR-ASIA: ILO Forecasts Social Suffering from Economic Crisis
Asia's poorer sectors will face worse conditions in 1998 mainly due to inadequate political intervention to confront the region's financial crisis to date, forecast the International Labour Organisation (ILO).LABOUR-ASIA: ILO Forecasts Social Suffering from Economic Crisis
Asia's poorer sectors will face worse conditions in 1998 mainly due to inadequate political intervention to confront the region's financial crisis to date, forecast the International Labour Organisation (ILO).HUMAN RIGHTS: A Battle Among Men Waged on the Bodies of Women
The attitude towards women as "war booty" during armed conflicts is beginning to change, said Radhika Coomaraswamy, special rapporteur on violence against women, in a new report to the United Nations Human Rights Commission.ENVIRONMENT: Dumping of Toxic Waste Affects Human Rights
Campaigns against the dumping of toxic waste products in developing countries have a humanitarian as well as environmental angle, the United Nations Human Rights Commission declared Friday.HUMAN RIGHTS: UN Condemns Unilateral Economic Sanctions
The UN Human Rights Commission voted Thursday against unilateral coercive measures imposed on other countries, like the U.S. economic embargos against Cuba, Libya and Iran.HUMAN RIGHTS: UN Criticises Death Penalty in United States
A new United Nations report expresses concern over the use of the death penalty and killings by the police in the United States.HEALTH: The Death of a Pregnant Woman Brings a World of Loss
All the progress humanity has made against disease is undermined by the meagre results obtained in the area of maternal health, says a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).MIGRATIONS: Asian Crisis Hits Millions of Immigrants
The economic crisis in Asia will strike hard on the millions of immigrants spread across the countries of the region, warned experts at a meeting on human rights and migration this week.LABOUR: New Head of ILO from the Developing South
For the first time in the history of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the leadership of the world body will be in the hands of a representative of the developing world, Chile's Juan Somavia, elected Monday as director- general for the 1999-2004 period.COMMUNICATIONS: The Ever-Distant Dream of Telephones for All
The dream of universal access to telecommunications seems as distant as ever, with nearly half of all households worldwide unable to afford a telephone, and one previously imagined panacea, the mobile cellular system, still far out of their reach.HUMAN RIGHTS: Violator Governments Back in the Dock
The United Nations Human Rights Commission annual session promises spectacular treatment of nations like China, Cuba or Nigeria, rather than general treatment of the big human rights issues.ENVIRONMENT-SWITZERLAND: El Nino to Cause Rains, Drought At Least Until April
The El Nino weather phenomenon continues to cause heavy rains and storms in some regions and exceptionally hard-hitting drought in others, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) reported in its latest 'El Nino Update' Tuesday.RIGHTS: Int’l Declaration Recognises Work of Activists and NGOs
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in defence of human rights obtained recognition of their right and responsibility to promote and protect fundamental freedoms by the draft of an inter-governmental declaration approved Wednesday.ENVIRONMENT: El Nino to Cause Rains, Drought At Least Until April
The El Nino weather phenomenon continues to cause heavy rains and storms in some regions and exceptionally hard-hitting drought in others, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) reported in its latest 'El Nino Update' Tuesday.HUMAN RIGHTS: Africa Absent from UN Debate on Racism
No representatives of sub-Saharan Africa are taking part in the discussions bates within the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this year.ENVIRONMENT-SWITZERLAND: Hydroelectricity – Unpopular and Uneconomic
The hydroelectricity construction business is facing greater controversy and smaller profits each day, to the extent that two environmental organisations have suggested the Swiss Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) company go into a new line.ENVIRONMENT: Hydroelectricity, Unpopular and Uneconomic
The hydroelectricity construction business is facing greater controversy and smaller profits each day, to the extent that two environmental organisations have suggested the Swiss Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) company go into a new line.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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