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POLITICS: Israel Not Shunning Court of Public Opinion – Experts
A potential World Court ruling against Israel for building a controversial ''security barrier'' in the occupied territories would remain a "moral" victory unless the Jewish state were penalised, say U.S. observers.IRAQ: U.N. Team Spells Out Conditions for Vote
A United Nations fact-finding team has shot down a proposal to hold U.S.-style regional political caucuses to elect a homegrown transitional government in Iraq, leaving open the question of who will take over from the occupying power Jun. 30.POLITICS: Canadian Justice New U.N. Human Rights Czar
A sitting justice of the Supreme Court of Canada was nominated Friday to one of the most politically sensitive jobs at the United Nations: high commissioner for human rights (UNHCHR).DEVELOPMENT: More Promises Planned for Global Poverty
The international community has served up a rash of new proposals to fund poverty alleviation, but at least two prior undertakings have failed to get off the ground, say diplomats, senior U.N. officials and representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs)./UPDATE*/COLOMBIA: Group Urges U.N. to Focus on Child Killings
Children caught up in one of Latin America's longest running military conflicts, in Colombia, are dying violently at a rate of about seven per day, according to a report released Wednesday by the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict.COLOMBIA: Group Urges U.N. to Focus on Child Killings
Children caught up in one of Latin America's longest running military conflicts, in Colombia, are dying violently at a rate of about seven per day, according to a report released Wednesday by the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict.POLITICS: Violence Stymies U.N. Efforts to Return to Iraq
Multiple suicide bombings in Iraq early this week and escalating violence against U.S.-led multi-national military forces are stymieing U.N. efforts to return to the war-devastated country.POLITICS: New U.S. Plans for Nukes Hypocritical, Say Experts
Proposed new U.S. curbs on the proliferation of nuclear weapons are fundamentally hypocritical, U.S. academics, military analysts and peace activists said Wednesday.POLITICS: U.N. Plans Pullout from East Timor
The United Nations is planning to withdraw its 3,500 peacekeepers from East Timor in May despite calls from the government in Dili and civil society groups that the body's work in the world's newest country is not finished.POLITICS: Drained Liberia Receives Drops of Aid
After nearly 14 years of civil strife that claimed the lives of over half a million people, a war-battered Liberia is looking for a new road map to political and economic recovery, and money to pave those ''roads''.POLITICS: Drained Liberia Receives Drops of Aid
After nearly 14 years of civil strife that claimed the lives of over half a million people, a war-battered Liberia is looking for a new road map to political and economic recovery, and money to pave those ''roads''.RIGHTS: Palestinian Women Hard Hit by Israeli Occupation
Israel's repressive policies in military-occupied West Bank and Gaza have had a devastating impact on the lives of Palestinian women and children, a new U.N. study says.POLITICS: Doubts Arise as U.N. Readies Iraq Elections Team
Pressed by the United States, the United Nations will send an electoral team to assess the feasibility of holding nation-wide elections in Iraq before the end of June.AFRICA: Abduction of Women, Children Growing in War Zones – U.N.
The abduction of women and children in military conflicts in Africa is on the rise, according to a U.N. report released Thursday, the same day an international court said it will pursue Ugandan rebels for war crimes against the two vulnerable groups.POLITICS: Rich Avoid Peacekeeping for the Poor, Says U.N.
Western nations are increasingly shying away from peacekeeping operations, particularly in Africa, according to officials and diplomats at the United Nations.POLITICS: Rich Avoid Peacekeeping for the Poor, Says U.N.
Western nations are increasingly shying away from peacekeeping operations, particularly in Africa, according to U.N. officials and diplomats here.POLITICS: Afghan Women’s Vote Threatened, U.N. Warns
The United Nations, which has strong reservations about the feasibility of upcoming elections in politically unstable Afghanistan, is now expressing fears that women might be marginalized in the national polling.DEVELOPMENT: Poverty, Not Terror, the Real Threat – U.N. Chief
The world is so preoccupied with terrorism and weapons of mass destruction that it continues to ignore the real threats facing mankind, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Wednesday.IRAQ: U.N. Agrees to Assess Early Elections
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan agreed Monday to send a team of experts to Baghdad to assess the feasibility of holding direct elections in Iraq this year, an idea the United States has already rejected as impracticable.POLITICS: U.S. Wants U.N. in Iraq to Back Election Plan – Experts
In a bygone era, whenever the United States was hip-deep in military trouble overseas, the resounding battle cry in the nation's capital was: ''Send in the Marines!''ECONOMY: India, China Lend Heft to Global Recovery
Last year's global economic recovery was marked by the growing financial weight of the world's two most populous nations - India and China - both of which have been growing more than twice as fast as the world average, the United Nations said Wednesday.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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