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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has named his special envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, as new head of the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Ban's office said Thursday on its website.
Serbia accused Kosovo Tuesday of threatening international order by declaring independence last year, but Pristina told a top UN court that the horrors of the Milosevic-era make the move irreversible.
UNITED NATIONS - The chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor for former Yugoslavia says Serbia is cooperating with the tribunal despite its failure to arrest former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic.
WATERLOO, CANADA--(Marketwire - Dec. 4, 2009) - Experts from The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) are available for comment and analysis on the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark from December 7-18. CIGI experts are available to comment from Copenhagen, London (U.K.), Ottawa, Toronto and Waterloo. Jason J. Blackstock - CIGI research fellow ...
When world leaders meet at the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark next week, two local residents will be there to witness what one UN official calls a "historic turning point" in world climate-change negotiations.
Governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. was charged in last week's massacre in the Phillipines, in which his gunmen allegedly killed political rivals in the worst case of election violence in the nation's history.
Image Caption: This is a still from a series of indigenous community-produced videos documenting climate change impacts worldwide. Credit: Conversations with the Earth
Mexican authorities have freed 107 indigenous people who officials say were being held as slave laborers in a Mexico City factory disguised as a drug rehabilitation center.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court raised the possibility Friday of charging Sudanese officials who cover up the government's involvement in alleged war crimes in Darfur and said President Omar al-Bashir will ultimately face international justice.
Pop star Stevie Wonder had a hotter debut Thursday as a U.N. peace envoy than he expected. The singer-songwriter was in the middle of his acceptance speech as a prestigious Messenger of Peace and advocate for the world's estimated 650 million people with...
VIENNA (AP) — Traces of cocaine among the remains of a cargo plane recently discovered in West Africa suggests that large aircraft are increasingly being used to smuggle drugs and even weapons to the region, possibly benefiting terrorists, the U.N.'s anti-crime chief said Thursday.
Alicia Keys' collaborations with Beyoncé and Drake, "Put It In a Love Song" and "Un-thinkable (I'm Ready)," from her forthcoming Element of Freedom LP, hit the Internet on Friday.
Iran said Friday it would keep plans for 10 new enrichment plants secret until six months before they were ready to concentrate uranium into nuclear fuel.
The world's poorest nations are especially hard hit by the global financial crisis and will feel its impact for years to come, U.N. officials said Thursday.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Friday that the Sudanese president's recent avoidance of traveling abroad to high-level events bodes well for his ultimate arrest for alleged war crimes in Darfur.
NEW YORK, USA, 4 December 2009 – 'Design for UNICEF' is an interdisciplinary design programme where graduate students examine some of the challenges UNICEF faces and work in groups to research and prototype solutions. The graduate class is taught by Professor Clay Shirky and is a collaboration between UNICEF and the Interactive Telecommunication Programme at the Tisch School of the Arts in New ...
The head of the military junta in Guinea has encouraged people to testify openly to UN investigators about a September 28 massacre of civilians by soldiers in the west African country.
The Belleville Middle School’s Jr. Interact Club conducts the UNICEF campaign annually, and the adviser is always impressed and inspired by the school’s generosity and the monies raised. This year, the students outdid themselves, according to organizers.
Traces of cocaine among the remains of a cargo plane recently discovered in West Africa suggest that large aircraft are increasingly being used to smuggle drugs and even weapons to the region, possibly benefiting terrorists,...
A top UN panel is to probe claims that scientists at the University of East Anglia sought to suppress data backing climate change sceptics' views, its head said Friday ahead of the landmark Copenhagen summit.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations’ carbon market has staffing shortages and needs more than six months to streamline approvals for projects to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, said Lex de Jonge , chairman of its regulatory board.
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