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* Agenda for work on new global climate deal is adopted * Agreement breaks week-long deadlock over procedure * Mistrust between countries remains * Urgent climate action needed to limit global warming (Adds further context, quotes) By Nina Chestney BONN, May 25 (Reuters) - More than 180 countries agreed on an agenda...

President Jacob Zuma on Friday called on African leaders to accelerate progress towards the United Nations' millennium development goals.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urges Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to ensure the upcoming elections will be free and fair.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will next week travel to Turkey and Saudi Arabia for a number of engagements in the two countries, including attending a meeting related to the Alliance of Civilizations, a conference on the future of Somalia and a meeting of the advisory board of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre.

The U.N. General Assembly today formally extended Navi Pillay's term as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights for another two years. But not before House Foreign Affairs Chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Rep. Elliot Engel (D-NY) fired off an angry letter calling on the Obama administration to "publicly and strongly oppose" Pillay's extension, saying she has been too...

Activists say the hosting of the United Nations' Navi Pillay is an attempt to sugar-coat Zimbabwe's poor human rights record.

Abbas says Israeli response unsatisfactory, threatens going to the United Nations again.

GENEVA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A United Nations investigation said Syrian government forces and rebels trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad had both committed serious human rights abuses despite an attempted ceasefire in the conflict and opposition activists reported fighting in several regions on Thursday.

Syrian government forces and opposition fighters are committing gross human rights violations despite a six-week-old ceasefire in the conflict and children are often the victims, United Nations investigators said in a report today.

The failure of the United Nations to take decisive action on Syria shows it is no longer "fit for purpose" and is becoming "redundant as a guardian of global peace", Amnesty International has reported.

Kosovo may not be recognized by the United Nations but the country has taken a giant leap towards acceptance in the soccer world thanks to FIFA's decision to allow them to play in international matches.

VIENNA (AP) -- A year after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima disaster, a United Nations agency preparing a report on the health effects says none of the six former reactor workers who have died since the catastrophe perished due to the effects of radiation....

Utl.: Mitgliedstaaten müssen endlich in die Pflicht genommen werden, um Integration der Roma zu verbessern - EU-Kommission soll Berichte veröffentlichen = Wien (OTS/SK) - Die Agentur für Grundrechte hat heute, Mittwoch, gemeinsam mit der UNDP (United Nations Development …

PROPOSED changes in the way New Zealand's prisons operate may breach United Nations' guidelines on treating prisoners, the Human Rights Commission says.

As chairman of a panel convened in 2001–02 by the United Nations and the World Health Organization to establish guidelines for the use of probiotics, I am dismayed by recent regulatory changes in Europe and the United States.These have led the European Food Safety

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jeffrey Feltman, the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, is expected to leave the Obama administration to take a senior post at the United Nations, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.

UNITED NATIONS - A U.N. expert has called for taking measures to ensure Internet access to everyone, stressing that it is a powerful global information resource. “Since the Internet is essentially a global resource, it is crucial that appropriate Internet governance supports the right of everyone to have access to and use information and communication technologies in self-determined and ...

UNITED NATIONS - A U.N. expert has called for taking measures to ensure Internet access to everyone, stressing that it is a powerful global information resource. “Since the Internet is essentially a global resource, it is crucial that appropriate Internet governance supports the right of everyone to have access to and use information and communication technologies in self-determined and ...

BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Reluctance to raise ambitions to cut greenhouse gas emissions due to economic constraints is threatening progress towards limiting global warming, delegates at United Nations' climate talks in Germany warned on Monday.

One month ago, thanks to the efforts of United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan, both the Syrian government and the opposition forces in Syria accepted a ceasefire plan.

Tweet Widget Facebook Like United Nations member countries should call on the Philippine government during its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council to honor its commitments to ensure accountability for serious human rights abuses. (Manila) – United Nations member countries should call on the Philippine governmen...

Almost a year after key 26/11 suspect Ilyas Kashmiri was reported killed in a drone strike, the United Nations has updated his status as "reported dead" in a sanctions list of individuals and entities associated with al Qaida.

Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday that China will cooperate more closely with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The United Nations and the Brazilian government are launching an Internet debate around 10 themes for a green planet to elicit suggestions from experts and the public for next month's Rio+20 summit.

Shalini Singh reporting in the Hindu: "The raging controversy over possible excessive state regulation of the internet based on the IT Rules 2011 is now likely to be dwarfed by discussions in Geneva later this week over India's proposal to the United Nations General Assembly, for government control of the Internet… In its proposal submitted to the General Assembly in New York on October 26, 201...

Registration is now open for Rio+Social, the historic meeting of social media, technology, global development and sustainability leaders during…

Yemen's recently installed President Abed Rabbo Mansour al-Hadi surprised many observers by moving swiftly to establish control over the battered nation's military. His efforts, backed by an unusually assertive United Nations mediation effort, offer a rare glimpse of hope for a nation battered by more than a year of instability and political conflict. Few believed that the new government wo...

The United Nations data showed one in three adults worldwide has raised blood pressure and the condition affects almost half the adult population in some countries in Africa.

BEIRUT (AP) -- A team of international observers that came under fire in northern Syria was apparently stranded in the area overnight, and United Nations officials said Wednesday they hope to evacuate the group within hours....

The United Nations aims to collect a monitoring team from the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun today, the head of the monitoring mission said, after they spent the night in the hands of rebels following an attack near their convoy.

The United Nations Development Programme says Africa needs to boost agricultural productivity if it is to sustain its economic boom.

Suppose an African leader is coming to New York to address the United Nations, and an interpreter there overhears someone plotting his assassination and informs the police. So maybe the leader should just stay home? He can’t. Because he is a murderous dictator (the interpreter’s family . . .

The United Nations and the international community have a responsibility to meet the crisis head-on. There are pledges to fulfill, dollars to deliver and lives to save.

The United Nations said Friday that South Sudan has pulled its police force out of the disputed Abyei region on the border with Sudan.

As part of its mandatory obligation under the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

Syria’s UN envoy said Thursday that British, French and Belgian nationals were among foreign fighters killed in the country’s mounting conflict and that there was Al-Qaeda involvement.

Norwich is named as England's first City of Literature by the United Nation's organisation, UNESCO.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House panel on Wednesday moved to cut the foreign aid budget by some 9 percent, targeting economic aid and contributions to the United Nations and the World Bank....

A Haitian youth at the center of a United Nations abuse investigation has left the Caribbean nation to testify in a Uruguayan court on Thursday.

A United Nations High Commission for Refugees report says that Afghan refugees constitute the highest number of asylum seekers in the world - but life is not always easy for those who return home.

London (Reuters) - When Exxon boss Rex Tillerson walked into a meeting with the President of Ghana on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, he thought he was set to strike a deal with an important new oil producing nation.

Why did the United Nations stop reporting atrocities in Darfur?

IN 24 hours President Michael D Higgins watched the hottest show on Broadway and delivered an address marking World Press Freedom Day at the United Nations.

The United Nation's Margareta Wahlstrom calls for more to be done to limit the impact of flooding.

Canadian Marian Miszkiel helped rebuild Kosovo. Now he's bringing the General Assembly up to today's standards

Unesco prepares to celebrate Monday as the first International Jazz Day with a concert at the United Nations General Assembly.

Apple still doesn't own iPad.com, apple.co.uk or many other domains that contain its name or names of its products, but it is now the proud owner of applecom.com and appleprinters.com -- two domains that were the subject of a complaint Apple made to the World Intellectual Property Organization complaint Apple made about a month ago. If you now visit those URLs, they automatically redirect to A...

Unprecedented momentum is gathering to put adolescents into the centre of global health policies. This opportunity has the potential not only to benefit young people directly but also to have wide-ranging effects on the health of adults and national economic development. The 45th session of the United Nations (UN) Commission on Population and Development, held in New York from April 23 to 26, h...

In a sign of increasing frustration with Syria’s violations of a cease-fire agreement, France will push to have 300 United Nations cease-fire observers in Syria within two weeks.

As it attempts to lead the world toward a more sustainable future, the United Nations has set a policy to move "towards a zero carbon future." [More]

Top government experts from the 15 member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gathered today in Abuja to prepare for Arms Trade Treaty negotiations that will be held at the United Nations in July this year. The two-day meeting, jointly organized by the ECOWAS Commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was formally opened by Olugbenga Ashiru,...

In 2011, the worst drought in 60 years struck the Horn of Africa.  The United Nations declared famine in six regions of Somalia, threatening the lives of over 250,000 Somalis, and requiring urgent humanitarian assistance for more than 13.3 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and other parts of Somalia.  The international community responded and famine conditions abated in January 2012.  Neverth...

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are in Ecuador with the kids in the wake of their engagement news, but as usual it's something of a working vacation for Jolie, who last week was promoted from goodwill ambassador to special envoy in her continuing gig with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Mitt Romney’s campaign put out word Thursday that Richard Grenell, the former Bush administration spokesman at the United Nations, was joining his team as a spokesman on foreign policy issues. In between his gigs at the UN and with the Romney campaign, Grenell has also been a very prolific tweeter. And more specifically, a prolific tweeter about Callista Gingrich and other aspects of Newt Gingr...

As the United Nations Security Council mulls sending more observers to monitor the ceasefire in Syria, the BBC has uncovered evidence of serious breaches by Assad government forces in the north of the country.

Britain promised a further £4million in aid to Syrian refugees yesterday as the United Nations accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of breaking promises over the country's peace plan.

After the latest demonstration of Syria thumbing its nose at the Annan plan, Walter Russell Mead  decided to go on a rhetorical bender against the United Nations:  The reality is that the UN today is less prestigious and influential than it was in the 1940s and 1950s. There used to be a time when General Assembly votes actually meant something. Newspapers used to report its resolutions o...

The Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that the United Nations cannot be prosecuted for failing to prevent the deaths of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the United Nations should adopt a treaty giving everyone on the planet the right to bear firearms....

Global foreign direct investment (FDI) rose by 16 per cent last year to an estimated $1.66 trillion (€1.258 trillion), the first time it surpassed pre-crisis levels of 2007, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said.

Global foreign direct investment (FDI) rose by 16 per cent last year to an estimated $1.66 trillion, the first time it surpassed pre-crisis levels of 2007, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said.

China calls for calm, Russia criticizes North Korean plans to launch rocket as breach of United Nations resolution.

The United Nations wants to know what SA mercenaries were doing helping Gaddafi during the civil war in Libya, but our government isn't saying a word.

A fatigued-looking Pope Benedict threw his weight behind a United Nations plan to end bloodshed in Syria in his Easter Sunday message, calling for "an immediate commitment" to peace efforts there

Clarins has unveiled a chic new cosmetic beauty pouch in the brand's signature red, for a good cause.  The Clarins FEED 15 pouch was launched as part of a partnership with Lauren Bush's FEED Projects to fight world hunger. The FEED organization benefits the United Nations World Food Program's School Feeding program that provides meals for children in third-world countries. Clarins partnered wi...

Global food prices rose in March for a third successive month, driven by gains in grains and vegetable oils, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation said today, putting food inflation firmly back on the economic agenda.

John R. Bolton, ambassador to the United Nations during the George W. Bush administration, told a crowd of more than 100 in Baltimore on Sunday that Mitt Romney is the only candidate on Tuesday’s primary ballot suitable to “sit at the big desk” and make the important decisions looming on U.S. foreign policy. Read full article >>

United Nations envoy says Syria has accepted a UN peace proposal calling for a ceasefire but efforts had to be deployed to implement it

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fourteen protesters were arrested on Saturday in separate Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, one that involved an hours-long march through Manhattan streets and a second at the United Nations, authorities said.

The United Nations nuclear watchdog says it received an invitation from North Korea to visit.

Joint special envoy on Syria for the United Nations speaks at closed UN council meeting via video, urges UNSC to break Syria deadlock; Annan says situation needs to be handled "very, very carefully to avoid escalation."

Headline Title:  Human rights in Guatemala under scrutiny by UN 16 March 2012 Recent progress on justice for crimes of the past must be matched with action on current abuses if human rights are to be a reality in Guatemala, Amnesty International said ahead of the country’s ap...

The leadership of the NAACP is in Switzerland pressing a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council for help on pushing voting right ...

The Guardian reports that Juan Mendez, special rapporteur on torture for the United Nations, has "formally accused the US government of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards Bradley Manning, the US soldier who was held in solitary confinement for almost a year on suspicion of being the WikiLeaks source. PDF of the report is here. [...]

The U.S. government¿s treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning was cruel, inhuman and degrading, according to a report from the United Nations special rapporteur on torture.

Angelina Jolie takes her role as United Nations Goodwill Ambassador to heart.  Thursday night, the 36-year-old actress spoke to the plight of Somali refugees at the Women in the...

The NAACP is sending a delegation to the meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to press for help fighting voter suppression ...

6 March 2012 -- The United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water has been met. This is one of the first MDG targets to be met. Between 1990 and 2010, over two billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources.

An anonymous reader writes "Internet freedom and innovation are at risk of being stifled by a new United Nations treaty that aims to bring in more regulation, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has warned. In a question-and-answer session at Mobile World Congress 2012 on Tuesday, Schmidt said handing over control of things such as naming and DNS to the UN's International Telecommunication...

PARTS of British cities are becoming no-go areas where drugs gangs are effectively in control, a United Nations drugs chief said today

GENEVA (AP) -- The United Nations has urged FIFA to allow Islamic women to wear a hijab headscarf while playing soccer....

The wife of UK photographer Paul Conroy, who was injured in Syria during an attack that killed two other reporters, says the United Nations could get him out.

The former United Nations weapons inspector and fierce critic of the Iraq invasion is still fighting, but now against only himself.

THE United Nations has named its former leader Kofi Annan as the troubleshooter to try to end the Syrian government's deadly crackdown on protests.

In a op-ed piece written by Robert M. McDowell who is a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission for the New York Times Today, Mr. McDowell warns of an international movement afoot to give take control to regulate the domain name system away from ICANN and the US and hand it over to the United Nations. As the NYT story is by subscription only we can’t quote much from the story but ...

You heard me. There is a shocking conspiracy, directly from the nefarious leaders of the one world government at the UN and their pawn, Barack Obama to add more public transportation and green space to your neighborhood. Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand governmen...

A permanent global clubhouse for democracies based on shared principles would make it easier to aid growing movements.The governments in Russia and China very much want to uphold the principle that every now and then the state must crush people who want freedom. That is why they worked together to veto a fairly toothless United Nations resolution condemning the regime in Syria and calling for P...

Suspicious of government initiatives, protesters linked to the Tea Party are denouncing all manner of measures they equate with a 1992 United Nations resolution, Agenda 21.

When Hillary Clinton arrived at the United Nations this week, to discuss the Arab League's peace plan for Syria, she came off looking just a little sinister.

The United Nations Security Council is meeting to debate whether to adopt a draft resolution on Syria.

The plight of charcoal scavengers in the Philippines capital underscores why the United Nations declared 2012 the International Year of Sustainable Energy For All.

The United Nations appoints former US ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, David Scheffer, as advisor to the Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia.

If you invited the United Nations over for dinner one night, it may look a little something like this

In June, scientists, politicians and campaigners of all stripes will flock to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the United Nations' fourth Earth summit, devoted to sustainable development and the green economy. The conference--undoubtedly the major environmental meeting of 2012--comes 20 years after the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed at the first UN Earth summit, also in Rio...f...

At a recent conference at the United Nations, the person in charge of the Department of Energy's finances told Technology Review how his agency is pushing innovation.

SANAA (Reuters) - Thousands of Yemenis marched toward the capital on Thursday, demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh face trial for killings of protesters over 11 months of demonstrations against him and denouncing a new government that would spare him prosecution.The United Nations, which endorsed a pact brokered by Yemen’s wealthier neighbors to stave off civil war by easing Saleh from power...

Membership will end the anomaly of having a leading oil and gas exporter and permanent member of the United Nations Security Council outside the world trade regime.

Delegates at a United Nations climate conference in South Africa may be edging towards an agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

This is such a HUGE, inspiring step forward. Hillary Clinton spoke at the United Nations offices in Geneva on Tuesday and announced the Global Equality Fund, backed by her and President Obama, which is a new global initiative to support gay rights. The U.S. has committed $3 million to a fund that will work to support LGBT [...]

4.000 Tote, anhaltende Gewalt, bewaffnete Deserteure: Die Lage in Syrien gleicht nach Ansicht der UN einem Bürgerkrieg. Der Druck auf Assad wächst, die Arabische Liga hat ein Einreiseverbot für ranghohe Syrier verhängt.

Qatar bested South Korea in a competition to serve as the site of the 2012 United Nations climate negotiations.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- A hackers group calling itself "Team Poison" has posted what it says are the user names and passwords of more than 100 United Nations staffers' email accounts it pulled from a U.N. computer server....

The Times Editorial: As President Jacob Zuma navigated his way through New York - from the stock exchange to the United Nations - his Presidency ZA Twitter account mirrored his movements.

Mexican mariachi music, Chinese shadow puppetry and poetic dueling from Cyprus were among the cultural traditions identified by the United Nations on Tuesday as in need of protection.

Wien (OTS) - The United Nations Women's Guild in Vienna is holding its 43rd International Festival - Charity Bazaar, in the Austria Centre, 3 December, from 10.00 - 17.00. The annual event raises money for poverty relief, particularly for women and children. Since its inception it has ...

KARACHI - Prominent Kashmiri leader and former Azad Jammu & Kashmir prime minister Sultan Mehmood has called for an intra-Kashmir dialogue between civil leaderships of India and Pakistan to reach a meaningful resolution on the disputed valley under the resolution of the United Nations. Addressing a press conference at the Press Club on Saturday, the former premier said that during his recen...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The rock band Linkin Park is teaming up with the U.N. to bring clean energy to Haitian families....

The Prime Minister congratulated Prime Minister Miqati on his success in forming a Government