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DEVELOPMENT: FAO Seeks 24 Billion Dollars in New Funds to Fight Hunger
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which has blamed western donors for the failure of the international community to meet UN targets on hunger alleviation, is seeking about 24 billion dollars annually to boost agricultural productivity worldwide.IRAQ: Insecurity Still Threatens U.N. Relief Operations
A surgeon and professor at the Basra teaching hospital recently watched a vendetta carried out in a hospital room.POLITICS: World Leaves Africa Peacekeeping to the Poor – Critic
The United Nations is trying to prevent a major humanitarian disaster in Central and West Africa by dispatching a battalion of diplomats and a contingent of peacekeepers to the politically troubled continent.POLITICS: World Leaves Africa Peacekeeping to the Poor – Critic
The United Nations is trying to prevent a major humanitarian disaster in Central and West Africa by dispatching a battalion of diplomats and a contingent of peacekeepers to the politically troubled continent.IRAQ: U.S. Faces Growing Charges of War Crimes
When General Tommy Franks, who coordinated the recent U.S.-led military attack on Iraq, was asked about civilian casualties, he shot back: ''We don't do body counts.''POLITICS: U.N. Helpless as Congo Threatened by Genocidal War
The United Nations remains in limbo waiting for member states to answer its call to assist one of the largest countries in Africa, the strife-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which continues to be threatened by a genocidal war.IRAQ: NGOs Decry ‘Bribes’ and ‘Threats’ Behind U.N. Vote
A coalition of over 150 peace groups and global non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is lashing out at the U.N. Security Council for adopting a resolution that virtually legitimises the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and endorses the foreign occupation of a U.N. member state.IRAQ: NGOs Decry ‘Bribes’ and ‘Threats’ Behind U.N. Vote
A coalition of over 150 peace groups and global non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is lashing out at the U.N. Security Council for adopting a resolution that virtually legitimises the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and endorses the foreign occupation of a U.N. member state.POLITICS-CUBA: EU Reconsidering Aid Funding After Crackdown
Cuba's highly successful human development programmes, long praised by U.N. agencies, are being threatened with possible funding cuts because of Havana's recent crackdown on political dissidents.POLITICS: Focusing on Iraq, UN Ignores Crises in West Africa
The international community is paying too much attention to Iraq and too little to a growing military and humanitarian crisis in West Africa, senior U.N. officials warn.The clashes between Lendu and Hema tribal factions in the embattled Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are threatening to escalate into a genocidal war, they say.
POLITICS: Focusing on Iraq, U.N. Ignores Crises in West Africa
The international community is paying too much attention to Iraq and too little to a growing military and humanitarian crisis in West Africa, senior U.N. officials warn.IRAQ: U.S. Hits Roadblocks in Lifting Iraqi Sanctions
The United States is hitting roadblocks in its attempts to have the U.N. Security Council adopt a new resolution aimed at legitimising its military attack on Iraq and giving it full control of the massive oil resources of the war-devastated nation.RIGHTS: Under Fire, World Bank Launches Indigenous Peoples Fund
Under fire from aboriginal groups for funding massive projects that spoil their land and resources, the World Bank has launched a fund to provide small grants for indigenous peoples' development activities. Called the 'Grants Facility for Indigenous Peoples', the 700,000-dollar programme is expected to be operating before the end of June.RIGHTS: Under Fire, World Bank Launches Indigenous Peoples Fund
Under fire from aboriginal groups for funding massive projects that spoil their land and resources, the World Bank has launched a fund to provide small grants for indigenous peoples' development activities.RIGHTS: World Leaders Fail Children
When 70 world leaders gathered at the United Nations last year for a special session of the General Assembly, they solemnly pledged to create ''a world fit for children''.POLITICS: Disorder Reigns After U.S. Attacks, say U.N. Officials
The United States, which militarily ousted the governments in both Afghanistan and Iraq, has two destabilised countries on its hands, say senior U.N. officials and diplomats.POPULATION: U.S. Citizens Raise One Million Dollars for UN Agency
A U.N. agency that suffered a 34-million-dollar cut in funding from Washington because of charges that it promotes abortions, is one million dollars richer after U.S. citizens launched a grassroots campaign to make up for the crippling loss.POLITICS: U.N. Says It Will Root out Fraud, Corruption
When a former chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee blasted the United Nations for waste and mismanagement, he also remarked that providing funds to the world body was like pouring money into a ''rathole''. Jesse Helms, an influential right-wing conservative who had the power to block the U.S. contribution to the United Nations, had his own political agenda in disparaging the world body. But his criticism touched a raw nerve in an institution whose peacekeeping operations in the 1990s were infamous for their fraud and malfeasance.POLITICS: U.N. says it Will Root out Fraud, Corruption
When a former chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee blasted the United Nations for waste and mismanagement, he also remarked that providing funds to the world body was like pouring money into a ''rathole''.DEVELOPMENT: Gender Inequality in South Has Global Roots – Report
The world's developing nations continue to lag far behind industrial countries in gender equality and gender empowerment, according to a new U.N. report released here.POLITICS: U.S. Undermining Arms Control – Experts
The United States is undermining the international disarmament regime by abandoning multilateralism in favour of unilateralism, according to senior U.N. officials and U.S. arms control experts.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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