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MEDIA: South Seeks News “For Us and By Us”
In an interview with a U.N. correspondent many moons ago, an outspoken Asian politician was asked to name the "leading newspapers" in his country.POLITICS: Six Nations Revolt Against U.N. Censure
A United Nations committee is expected to block an attempt by the United States and European nations to single out six countries - Iran, North Korea, Burma, Sudan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - for condemnation on human rights abuses.RIGHTS: Sports Increasingly Mirror a Racist World
When soccer was considered an unruly spectator sport in years gone by, there was the story of a referee assigned to officiate at a tension-charged football match in a Latin American country arriving in an armoured battle tank just to protect himself from a violence-prone crowd.POLITICS: Developing Nations Fault UN Reform Plan
The 132-member Group of 77, the largest single coalition of developing nations, is heading for a political showdown with the U.N. Secretariat over its proposed plans to revitalise the administrative infrastructure of the beleaguered world body.RIGHTS: U.N. Blasts Practice of Outsourcing Torture
Six countries - the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Sweden and Kyrgyzstan - have been singled out for violating international human rights conventions by deporting terrorist suspects to countries such as Egypt, Syria, Algeria and Uzbekistan, where they may have been tortured.RIGHTS: U.N. Blasts Practice of Outsourcing Torture
Six countries - the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Sweden and Kyrgyzstan - have been singled out for violating international human rights conventions by deporting terrorist suspects to countries such as Egypt, Syria, Algeria and Uzbekistan, where they may have been tortured.POLITICS: Africa’s New Standing Army Primed For Next Year
As the increasing military tension in the Horn of Africa threatens to escalate into a new war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the 53-member African Union (AU) plans to establish its first-ever standing army sometime next year.DEVELOPMENT: Fire Alarm Is Ringing, But the Hoses Are Dry
The United Nations, under relentless pressure to provide humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of people hit by a rash of recent natural disasters worldwide, is hoping its proposed new Central Emergency Respond Fund (CERF) will be up and running by early 2006.TSUNAMI IMPACT: Recovery Hampered by Negligence, Corruption
The widely-publicised tsunami recovery efforts undertaken by relief agencies and governments in five disaster-affected countries - Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and the Maldives - remain hampered by incompetence, corruption, discrimination and lack of public accountability, according to a new report released here.DISARMAMENT: Deadliest Conflicts Down 80 Percent Since 1992
Contrary to widespread popular belief, there has been a "major decline" in armed conflicts, genocides, human rights abuses, military coups and international crises since the early 1990s, according to a new study released Monday.DEVELOPMENT: Foreign Aid Hike Too Little, Too Late for MDGs
If Western donors deliver on their promises, official development assistance (ODA) to the world's poorer nations is expected to increase by about 50 billion dollars in the next five years, according to a new U.N. report released this week.POPULATION: A Giant Leap From Rhetoric to Reality?
The largest gathering of world leaders meeting at the United Nations last month declared that the international community must keep gender equality, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health at the top of the global agenda over the next decade.POLITICS: Developing Nations Blast U.N. for Appeasing U.S.
The 132-member Group of 77, the largest single coalition of developing nations, has sent a letter of protest to Secretary-General Kofi Annan implicitly decrying the U.N. Secretariat's efforts to appease U.N.-bashing right-wing conservatives, both inside and outside the U.S. Congress.POLITICS: Nobel Peace Prize Seen as Warning to Big Powers
The United Nations, which has taken a severe beating in recent months over charges of fraud, corruption and cronyism, received a morale booster Friday with news of a Nobel Peace Prize to one of its sister agencies, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei, a national of Egypt.POLITICS: Nobel Peace Prize Seen as Warning to Big Powers
The United Nations, which has taken a severe beating in recent months over charges of fraud, corruption and cronyism, received a morale booster Friday with news of a Nobel Peace Prize to one of its sister agencies.POLITICS: U.N. Protests Helicopter Grounding by Eritrea
The United Nations has reacted angrily to a decision by the Eritrean government to restrict all U.N. helicopter flights monitoring a fragile cease-fire in the politically volatile Horn of Africa.RIGHTS: Groups Hail EU Travel Ban on Child Recruiters
Human rights organisations are urging the international community to follow the lead set by the European Union (EU), which has imposed a travel ban on leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Sri Lankan rebel group notorious for recruiting child soldiers.POLITICS: India Loses Political Credibility in Anti-Iran Vote
India, a country that aspires to be a superpower in Asia, lost its political credibility among the world's developing nations last week when it voted against Iran at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.POLITICS: India Loses Political Credibility in Anti-Iran Vote
India, a country that aspires to be a superpower in Asia, lost its political credibility among the world's developing nations last week when it voted against Iran at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.MEDIA: Tunisia Promoting Free Expression – But Not at Home
A coalition of 14 international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has expressed "deep concern" over the upsurge in attacks on freedom of expression in Tunisia - a country which next month will host the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).DEVELOPMENT: Post-Summit Dilemma of Promises and Delivery
Less than two weeks after the much-ballyhooed U.N. summit meeting of some 170 political leaders, the world's 132 developing nations want to sustain the pressure on rich donor nations to deliver on their promises.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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