New York Times (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
A measure, which is almost certain to pass in the General Assembly, denounces a rise in violence, torture and limits to free speech.
thoughts from podunk (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
We wish to add our voices to the global campaign for an end to nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. We believe that the world needs to take urgent action to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and to make the world free of nuclear weapons, as part of the overall drive for worldwide peace and the transfer of military spending to socially-useful ends. The international treaties concerning...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
BERLIN -- Mohamed ElBaradei, the departing chief of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency, said Iran's continued refusal to accept tighter scrutiny of its nuclear activities would likely force the international community to impose new sanctions. Though he described sanctions as a "grievous violation of human rights" that "affect the weak" and "do not solve problems,"...
Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The following news report by Sudan Radio Service says 'the Convention on the Rights of the Child, signed in 1989, guarantees children the right to life, education, the right to play and to be protected from abuse'. Report received by email from Sudan Radio Service : Friday, November 20, 2009 (Nairobi) - The United Nations has marked the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Convention on the Rights...
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery — essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a collision course with free speech laws in the West. Muslim [...]
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
There are multiple issues facing the UN, AU, multi-lateral and bi-lateral actors as they confront the huge peace-building challenges in Africa. To better under these complex dynamics, it is important to start by asking three basic but important questions. Answering these questions would help shape the discourse and policy tools for tackling peace-building on the continent and elsewhere: 1. What lessons...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) His Excellency Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Vatican Ambassador to the United Nations, will be the guest of honor at The Musical Splendors of Christmas, a concert of Sacred Arias and seasonal favorites performed by operatic tenor Roberto Iarussi and soprano Christian Holms on December 3, 2009, at St. Francis of Assisi Church Manhattan. Proceeds from the evening will benefit...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
" Palestinian children in the camps of Lebanon are losing faith in the value of an education, with record numbers leaving school to work. “We are facing a big problem here,” said Ray Virgilio Torres, the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Lebanon. “There seems to be a growing number of children in the camps that do not think that a school education will...
turenchi (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Survivor groups from Rwanda‘s 1994 genocide say they may stop sending witnesses to the United Nations tribunal in Tanzania, in protest at the court‘s recent acquittals of two genocide ...Survivor groups from Rwanda‘s 1994 genocide say they may stop sending witnesses to the United Nations tribunal in Tanzania, in protest at the court‘s recent acquittals of two genocide ...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Finally, someone is doing something about Eritrea’s support of terrorism. Uganda has written a draft United Nations resolution calling for sanctions on the country for financing and arming the al-Shabaab terrorist group in Somalia. If passed, arms sales to Eritrea would be outlawed, the assets of members of the government and military would be frozen, and travel bans on officials would be instituted....
The War on Guns (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Coca-Cola is spearheading a coalition of more than 100 companies pushing a United Nations climate treaty to bind the U.S. to cap-and-trade emissions regulation, commit the world's wealthiest nations to a potential $10 trillion in foreign aid and, possibly, form a proposed international "super-grid" for regulating and distributing electric power worldwide. [ More ] Just remember where you...
LifeNews.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
New York, NY (LifeNews.com/CFAM) -- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its annual State of the World Population Report yesterday, linking efforts to promote "sustainable development" and affect "climate change" to its "reproductive rights" agenda.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
While praising the Sri Lankan government for accelerating resettlement of war displaced civilians in the north, a senior official from the United Nations has stressed the need of further improving the conditions of the camps in the north where more than 100,000 Tamil civilians are still being held six months after the conclusion of the island's bloody civil war. UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday criticized a United Nations resolution on human rights in the country, saying it was a "political conspiracy by hostile forces led by the United States." According to the official news agency KCNA, a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Minister said the aim of the resolution was to "deny and obliterate the political system" of...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 55 minutes ago
NEW DELHI: As the world marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child this week, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday acknowledged the measures taken by India to ensure that children can ...
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paskcw | 07/10/2009
Sicily - Italy ’s number one tourist destination in 2009 - is becoming more and more popular for those who want to buy a house. British and German buyers, that are also being joined by people coming from eastern Europe, are finding a good opportunity to invest in the island’s properties, the possibility to make their wish come true and change their lives at the same time. A recent article published...
legaleagle1 | 05/10/2009
[Print] [Email] British firm fined for breaching UN sanctions in Iraq, corruption in Jamaica, Ghana Associated Press 09/25/09 1:35 PM PDT LONDON — A British bridge-building company was fined 3.5 million pounds ($5.6 million) on Friday for breaching United Nations sanctions in Iraq and for corruption offenses in Jamaica and Ghana. The Serious Fraud Office said the case against Mabey & Johnson Ltd. was...
wellbeingnewseditor | 18/07/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Contributors > Under the 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees, a refugee is a person who has left the country of their nationality ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion’ and is unable or unwilling to return. In the UK, an asylum seeker is a person who has applied...
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