UN court to rule on Niger-Burkina Faso border row
AFP - Sat Nov 21, 3:08 pm ETBurkina Faso and Niger are to ask the International Court of Justice to settle their long-running border dispute, the Burkinabe foreign minister said Saturday.
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Burkina Faso and Niger are to ask the International Court of Justice to settle their long-running border dispute, the Burkinabe foreign minister said Saturday.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Iran has yet to provide a final written response to a United Nations-brokered proposal to enrich its uranium overseas, the head of the UN atomic agency said.
EDITOR'S NOTE -- The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago Friday, yet hundreds of millions of children still suffer from violence, hunger and disease. Associated Press correspondents around the globe interviewed children who illustrate the remaining challenges, along with some victories.
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka asked the United Nations for help resettling civilians displaced by the country’s civil war as a UN envoy visited camps where mainly Tamil refugees have lived since the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels in May.
A United Nations committee has approved a resolution urging Iran to stop harassing political opponents in the wake of disputed presidential elections.
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea is violating United Nations sanctions by selling weapons to nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America and by hiding financial transactions that support its missile and nuclear programs, a UN report said.
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea is violating United Nations sanctions by selling weapons to nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America and by hiding financial transactions that support its missile and nuclear programs, a UN report said.
UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care -- and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence -- two decades after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights.
EDITOR'S NOTE - The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago Friday, yet hundreds of millions of children still suffer from violence, hunger and disease. Associated Press correspondents...
EDITOR'S NOTE - The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago Friday, yet hundreds of millions of children still suffer from violence, hunger and disease. Associated Press correspondents...
EDITOR'S NOTE - The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago Friday, yet hundreds of millions of children still suffer from violence, hunger and disease. Associated Press correspondents...
EDITOR'S NOTE - The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago Friday, yet hundreds of millions of children still suffer from violence, hunger and disease.
UNITED NATIONS - A key United Nations committee is expressing very serious concern at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A key United Nations committee is expressing very serious concern at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea.
In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, Arun Kumar, 13, behind comes out of his class in a school, in New Delhi, India. Kumar, who ran away from his abusive grand parents and worked in a textile factory before coming to Apna Ghar, a children shelter for boys for street children.
Rabbi Warren Stone, an eco-activist and spiritual leader of Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland, in the Greater Washington, D.C. area, will serve as a delegate at the UN Climate Change Conference (UN COP15) to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009.
UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care — and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence — two decades after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights.
The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee condemned Iran on Friday for a violent crackdown on protesters after presidential elections this year that the Iranian opposition says were rigged.
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El ex Secretario del Condado de Webb Henry Flores, fue sentenciado a ocho años en prisión por prostitución de un menor, el jueves.