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Draft resolution calls for sanctions on Eritrea

A proposed U.N. resolution is calling for an arms embargo and other tough sanctions against Eritrea for supplying arms to opponents of the Somali government and refusing to resolve a border dispute with Djibouti. Uganda has circulated the draft ...

From EDITH M. LEDERER, eTaiwan News,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: African Union,  United Nations,  Siad Barre

UN committee criticizes NKorea rights violations

A key U.N. committee expressed "very serious concern" Thursday at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea and strongly urged the government to put an end to the violations. North Korea's deputy United ...

From EDITH M. LEDERER, eTaiwan News,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  European Union

Billion children deprived despite rights treaty, UNICEF says

UNITED NATIONS - Twenty years after the United Nations adopted a treaty guaranteeing children’s rights, a billion children are still deprived of food, shelter, or clean water and nearly 200 million are chronically malnourished, UNICEF said ...

From EDITH M. LEDERER, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: UNICEF,  United Nations,  Ann Veneman,  Bill Clinton,  U.S. Senate

UN urges help for 1 billion deprived children

UNITED NATIONS—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 ...

From EDITH M. LEDERER, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: UNICEF,  Ann Veneman,  Bill Clinton,  U.S. Senate,  Barack Obama

UN says more children in school and fewer dying

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school - but an estimated 1 billion still lack services essential to their survival and development, ...

From EDITH M. LEDERER, Buffalo News,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: UNICEF,  Ann Veneman

UN appeals for $144 million for Philippines

The United Nations appealed Tuesday for $144 million to help victims of three recent typhoons that devastated the Philippines, nearly double its original request. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Tuesday only $26 ...

From EDITH M. LEDERER, eTaiwan News,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Food and Agriculture Organization

UN chief to fast to spotlight 1 billion hungry

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to join a 24-hour fast to spotlight the plight of the more than one billion people around the world who go to bed hungry every night, the U.N. said Friday. Ban will fast Sunday en route to Rome where he ...

From EDITH M. LEDERER, eTaiwan News,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ban Ki-moon,  Jacques Diouf,  Food and Agriculture Organization

UN official sees peace hopes in Congo

Eight years after the end of Congo's civil wars, the outgoing U.N. humanitarian chief in the country said Thursday he hopes the slow progress toward peace can be sustained. But he warned that the sprawling nation in the heart of Africa can also ...

From EDITH M. LEDERER, eTaiwan News,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NATO,  U N Security Council,  Human Rights Watch,  Joseph Kabila

UN rights chief cites civilian protection failure

The U.N. human rights chief on Wednesday decried the failure to protect civilians in the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, Congo and Darfur from death and injury or punish those responsible. Ten years after the U.N. Security Council first ...

From EDITH M. LEDERER, eTaiwan News,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U N Security Council,  Richard Goldstone,  International Criminal Court,  African Union,  Ban Ki-moon

US accuses Iran of violating UN arms embargo

The United States accused Iran Tuesday of violating a U.N. arms embargo by secretly sending weapons to Syria in a cargo ship seized by Israel, a U.S. official said. Britain took a softer line in the U.N. Security Council, expressing "very serious ...

From EDITH M. LEDERER, eTaiwan News,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hezbollah,  U N Security Council

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