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POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals

POLITICS: UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (IPS) - A special U.N. summit of world leaders, scheduled to take place next year, is expected to make "a final push" to help reach the world body's widely-touted development goals by the targeted date of 20 ...

From THALIF DEEN, Inter Press Service,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ban Ki-moon,  University of Washington

DEVELOPMENT: Child Rights Make Headway, But Millions Still Suffering

DEVELOPMENT: UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (IPS) - The international community, which has been hit by a financial meltdown and a global food crisis, claims it is doing its best to protect and safeguard the rights of children worldwide. But its ...

From THALIF DEEN, Inter Press Service,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: UNICEF,  Ann M. Veneman,  American Civil Liberties Union,  Magna Carta,  Robert Gates

DEVELOPMENT: UNFPA Puts Human Face on Climate Blowback

DEVELOPMENT: UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18 (IPS) - A new U.N. report on the hazards of climate change brings a fresh human perspective to an ongoing wide-ranging debate that has focused primarily on energy efficiency and industrial carbon ...

From THALIF DEEN, Inter Press Service,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tarja Halonen

CLIMATE CHANGE: Small Islands Fear Going the Way of Atlantis

CLIMATE CHANGE: UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 (IPS) - The world's small island states, most of which are painfully vulnerable to the ravages of climate change, have put the United Nations on notice. Dramatising the plight of Pacific Small Island ...

From THALIF DEEN, Inter Press Service,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Stuart Beck

RIGHTS: U.S., Somalia Still Opt Out of Children's Treaty

RIGHTS: UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 (IPS) - When the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF) commemorates the 20th anniversary of its landmark international treaty protecting the rights of children next week, there will be two countries skipping the ...

From THALIF DEEN, Inter Press Service,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  UNICEF,  Senate Foreign Relations Committee,  United Nations,  U.S. Senate

POLITICS: U.N. Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report

POLITICS: UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 (IPS) - A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it. The report, which was ...

From THALIF DEEN, Inter Press Service,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hamas,  Palestine Liberation Organization,  Richard Goldstone,  United Nations,  Ban Ki-moon

DEVELOPMENT: South-South Unity to Get Boost at U.N. Meet

DEVELOPMENT: UNITED NATIONS, Nov 3 (IPS) - As the global financial crisis continues to ravage the fragile economies of the world's poorer countries, the United Nations is hosting a high-level international conference next month to boost ...

From THALIF DEEN, Inter Press Service,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Shashi Tharoor,  Ban Ki-moon,  Supachai Panitchpakdi

DISARMAMENT: U.N. to Pursue Conventional Arms Trade Treaty

DISARMAMENT: UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (IPS) - The United Nations, which is pursuing a proposal for "a world without nuclear weapons", will soon turn its attention to another new goal in the field of disarmament: creating a legally-binding ...

From THALIF DEEN, Inter Press Service,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Georgetown University,  New America Foundation

POLITICS: U.S. Blasted for Sustaining Embargo on Cuba

POLITICS: UNITED NATIONS, Oct 28 (IPS) - The administration of President Barack Obama, which has vowed to improve relations with sanctions-hit Cuba, refused to break away from the traditional stand taken by successive U.S. governments and ...

From THALIF DEEN, Inter Press Service,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  United Nations,  Susan E. Rice,  Fidel Castro

DEVELOPMENT: Land Grabs for Food Production Under Fire

DEVELOPMENT: UNITED NATIONS, Oct 23 (IPS) - A move by governments and rich investors to raise food crops on farmland purchased in some of the world's poorer countries is coming under fire. "The purchase of vast tracts of land from poor, ...

From THALIF DEEN, Inter Press Service,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: World Bank

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