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DEVELOPMENT/ENVIRONMENT-DISARMAMENT: UN’s New Department For Global Disarmament
The United Nations, in a belated attempt at pursuing demilitarisation with the end of the Cold War, is creating a new department to disarm the world at large.RIGHTS: U.S. Blocks Move to De-Mob Child Soldiers
The United States "singlehandedly" is blocking international efforts to de-mobolise child soldiers in national armies throughout the world, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).DISARMAMENT: UN’s New Department For Global Disarmament
The United Nations, in a belated attempt at pursuing demilitarisation with the end of the Cold War, is creating a new department to disarm the world at large.POLITICS-UN: U.S. Snubbed Over Issue of Dues Cut
The United Nations has snubbed the United States by overwhelmingly rejecting its request to consider lowering the cost of annual dues that Washington pays the world body.UNITED NATIONS-OUTLOOK: U.S. Credibility in Jeopardy
The new year sees the United Nations, long dominated by its wealthiest patron the United States, in open revolt against Washington's demands on deciding the future of the world body while not paying its way.DISARMAMENT: U.N. Seeks Technology and Funds to Fight Landmines
Armed with nearly one billion dollars, the United Nations will embark on a search-and-destroy mission in 1998 to rid the world of 110 million anti-personel landmines.DEVELOPMENT-UNITED NATIONS: West Backs U.N. Conference on Development Aid
The United Nations, after more than 10 years of dragging its feet, has agreed to convene an international conference on the politically-sensitive issue of development financing.DEVELOPMENT: Dutch Want Conflict Prevention Rather Than Cure
The Netherlands, one of the world's most generous donors, is gradually changing its aid policies so as to prevent conflicts from breaking out, rather than waiting to help resolve them later.DISARMAMENT: UNICEF Pushes for Ratification of Landmine Treaty
The U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), which pushed through the fastest ratified human rights treaty in history, is attempting to repeat its success by steering the newly- approved international convention banning landmines into international law.DEVELOPMENT: West Backs U.N. Conference on Development Aid
The United Nations, after more than 10 years of dragging its feet, has agreed to convene an international conference on the politically-sensitive issue of development financing.POLITICS: Task Force Wants to Target UN Sanctions
A high-level probe into all aspects of United Nations sanctions has faulted the U.N. Security Council for imposing economic embargoes without the means of policing the results.DEVELOPMENT: Afghan Farmers Told “Grow Onions not Poppies”
The United Nations believes that Afghan farmers could find a credible, and profitable, alternative to their present crop of opium poppies by growing onions.MEDIA: U.N. Image Being Tarnished by Lopsided Coverage
The United Nations is complaining that its public image is being unfairly tarnished by lopsided media coverage of waste, fraud and mismanagement in the world body.RIGHTS: U.N. Plans to Convene World Conference on Racism
The United Nations, ignoring objections from the United States, has decided to convene a world conference on racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia, according to officials here.DISARMAMENT: Coalition Seeks to Globalise Anti Mine Treaty
An international coalition of anti- landmine groups is confident that more than 120 of the 185 U.N. member states will turn up in Canada next month to sign a landmark treaty banning the deadly weapons.POLITICS: U.N. Head Seeks Help on Resolving Cash Crisis
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose organisation is near-bankruptcy, is seeking "urgent advice" from the 185-member General Assembly on how to resolve a new financial crisis facing the world body.POLITICS: U.N. Divided Over Definition of Terrorism
The United Nations once again is embroiled in the Middle East conflict and is being asked to decide how the world body should distinguish a "terrorist" from a "freedom fighter."UN-DISARMAMENT: Expansion Sought of U.N. Arms Register
A group of 81 countries at the United Nations wants to expand the contents of the five-year-old U.N. Arms Register - to include weapons of mass destruction as well as conventional arms.UNITED NATIONS: U.N. Agencies Cry Out for Reform, Says Think Tank
Far-reaching changes are need urgently in the specialised agencies of the United Nations, says the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation - a Swedish think tank named after the former U.N. Secretary General - which has which has long advocated a radical restructuring of the U.N. Secretariat.DISARMAMENT: West to Help Russia Destroy Chemical Weapons
The United States and members of the European Union have volunteered to meet the major cost of destroying the huge stockpile of chemical weapons owned by Russia.UNITED NATIONS: WHO Needs Fixing
The World Health Organisation (WHO) needs to be rejuvenated and restructured, according to a gathering of Third World journalists in Rome.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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