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United Nations

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United Nations
Type: Organization
Name: United Nations
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 16 mins ago - 17 Documents (in Politics)
UN GA Condemns Post-Election Abuses in Iran
The U.N. General Assembly has condemned human rights violations in Iran, particularly those that have occurred since last June's disputed presidential election, when thousands of opposition supporters were arrested and detained.In a vote of 74 in favor, ... [GlobalSecurity.org - 16 mins ago]
First Reported 9 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 9 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Palestinian children mark 20th year of UN rights treaty with video testimony
– Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugee children in United Nations schools in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria have been clicking away with flip cams to create the region’s first ever online video yearbook to mark the 20th anniversary ... [United Nations - 6 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 18 Documents (in Environment)
Copenhagen: Copenhagen will be a success - UN chief
EFFORTS to craft a comprehensive climate treaty in Copenhagen next month will certainly 'yield a success', the UN's top climate official has pledged. 'There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that it will yield a success,' Yvo de Boer, executive director ... [Daily Telegraph Australia - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 22 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 13 Documents (in Environment)
U.N. climate chief says deal hinges on more ambition from rich
(SolveClimate) - The U.S. remains the only industrialized nation that has not committed itself to a greenhouse gas reduction target with Copenhagen climate talks just weeks away. Pressure is increasing on the U.S. to commit to a target, but the UN climate ... [Reuters - 4 hours ago]
First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 4 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
African women remain undervalued: UN report
Women in Africa have yet to receive the financial recognition they deserve for the time and effort put into domestic and reproductive work, a UN report launched Friday concluded.The place of women in statistics also needs to be sorted out on the African ... [InSing.com - 6 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 19 hours ago - 11 Documents
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Tamils leaving camps
It seems there is hope for Tamils stuck in squalid refugee camps after being displaced by the conflict raging in Sri Lanka's north for more than two decades.Ever since the long-running civil war there ended six months ago, Sri Lanka's government has been ... [ABC Online - 19 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 9 hours ago - 16 Documents (in Politics)
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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF/ICEF)
Unicef's state of the world's children report 2009: Where is the worst place in the world to grow up? Afghanistan
Unicef's state of the world's children report 2009: Where is the worst place in the world to grow up? Unicef's 2009 state of the world's children report tells us what it's like to grow up in the poorest - and richest - places in the world. Find out which ... [Guardian.co.uk - 9 hours ago]
First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 11 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
IRAN: Offer to process fuel abroad ‘unique’ opportunity, IAEA says
UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei has said that Iran was missing a "unique and fleeting" opportunity after it rejected an IAEA offer on Wednesday to process nuclear fuel abroad. ... [France24 - World - 8 hours ago]
First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 5 Documents (in Politics)
UNICEF chief calls for end of "unspeakable violations" against children
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The 'unspeakable violations' that happen almost everyday to children all across the globe need to be a thing of the past, chief of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Ann Veneman said here on Friday.In her remarks ... [Xinhua News Agency - 1 hour ago]
First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 10 Documents (in Health)
Afghanistan: A deadly place for children
The country has the highest infant mortality rate in the world. Twenty five per cent of children die before they reach the age of five.The findings are published in UNICEF’s annual report, The State of the World’s Children on Universal Children’s Day ... [EuroNews - 4 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 8 hours ago - 11 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
UN court names Karadzic lawyer
A UN war crimes tribunal has appointed a British barrister to represent Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, at his genocide trial.The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday named Richard Harvey, a lawyer ... [Al Jazeera - 8 hours ago]
First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 Documents (in Politics)
UN targets Iran's rights violations
A key committee has approved a resolution urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election and release those still detained.Citing arbitrary arrests, detentions and the disappearance of ... [Sky News Australia - 1 hour ago]

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Iran's U N Ambassador, Mohammad Khazaee, denounced the resolution as 'politically charged and motivated' and full of false claims. "Abusing the U N human rights mechanisms for short sighted political experiences reduces the highly valued concept of human rights into a tool of foreign policy for certain countries. This has created an atmosphere of confrontation and polarization which would only erode the capacity of the United Nations for the meaningful promotion of human rights" he said. Many of the member states that abstained or cast 'no' votes said they are opposed to resolutions that single out specific countries for censure...
UN GA Condemns Post-Election Abuses in Iran [GlobalSecurity.org - 16 mins ago]
..."The big challenge of the next 20 years is to firmly position the best interests of children at the heart of all human activity," said Veneman. "It is our collective responsibility to ensure every child's rights to survival, development, protection and participation." ###
UNICEF's State of The World's Children report commemorates 20 years of the CRC [UNICEF - 19 mins ago]
...the major recommendations of the UN CommitteeCommittee on the Rights of the Child", said Benjamin Perks, UNICEF Deputy Representative in Georgia. "We appreciate the efforts of the Parliament in advancing the rights of children in Georgia and this initiative is an important step forward in this regard" . The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most ratified human rights treaty...
Georgia commemorates 20 years of the CRC with creation of Child Rights' Council at the Parliament [UNICEF - 20 mins ago]
...donors, and international institutions to deliver a single plan to achieve the fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which needs to be "time-bound, costed and focused on tackling the direct and indirect causes of child death and ill ness in each country" . The report marks the launch of World Vision's Child Health Now campaign, which will monitor pro gress on the fourth MDG until 2015
Agency urges rich countries to act on child deaths [ChurchTimes - 27 mins ago]

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President Obama: A little less conversation? [Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 57 mins ago]
Ineluctably, a worm is turning deep inside President Barack Obama's policy of constructive engagement. Mr Obama needs something, somewhere to go right. He has filled ...
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* Chavez’s insults, dynamited bridges raise tensions * Border town residents forced to wade across river * Colombian military chiefs meet, no troop buildup ...
Ray Hanania: Re-Energizing The Two-State Soluti... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 2 hours ago]
Yes, I am running for President of Palestine in the next election, if there is one. No, I don't expect to win. But then, many long shot candidates who ...
Naomi Klein: Seattle Movements Coming of Age in... [The Understory : Understory.RAN.org - 3 hours ago]
Here are a couple of great articles by lefty author Naomi Klein about the anti-corporate movement of movements which converged in Seattle in 1999 at the shutdown ...
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The following post was originally delivered at the UN General Assembly's meeting on climate change on Thursday, November 19th. It has been 20 years ...
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US yet to sign UN child rights treaty 20 years ... [Al Jazeera - YouTube - 21 hours ago]
Karzai sworn in to office for controversial 2nd... [Russia Today - YouTube - 11/19/2009]
Iran rejects UN offer to send uranium out of co... [Russia Today - YouTube - 11/18/2009]
Ghost forest in central London [CNN International - YouTube - 11/18/2009]
Ghost forest in central London [CNN.com - Video - 11/18/2009]
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