South China Sea: Indian Defence Minister Makes Strong Assertions – Analysis
South China Sea: Indian Defence Minister Makes Strong Assertions – Analysis South China Sea: Indian Defence Minister Makes Strong Assertions – Analysis Introductory Observations The South China Sea region has been converted...Read more...
UNWTO indaba will be huge success – Storella
By BRIAN HATYOKA - THE co-hosting of the 20th Session of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) General Assembly in August this year will be a big success for Livingstone and Zambia, US Ambassador to Zambia Mark...Read more...
Cruise Ontario's historic waterways aboard the Kawartha Voyageur
By Pat Brennan, For Postmedia News May 14, 2013 Photograph by: Pat Brennan , For Postmedia News Nobody won The War of 1812, but you’ll have a tough time persuading Captain Marc Ackert. Ackert is not a military man. He’s skipper...Read more...
Ed Gragert: A New Education Post-2015 MDG: All Children Learning
We will need clear thinking, agreement and commitment in these three areas if we are to address educational needs and solutions on the ground in developing countries, answering such questions as: What should schools look like?Read more...
Kobler and Maliki discuss getting Iraq out of Chapter VII
5-20-13 Moscow News / Baghdad – Nazek Mohammed Khudair: A statement issued by the office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, informed the “News of Moscow” it, that “al-Maliki keep getting today, Martin Kobler, Representative of...Read more...
Un Château en Italie, Blood Ties and As I Lay Dying: the red carpet
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi arrives to the Cannes Film Festival with her new movie starring Louis Garrel and Filippo Timi while James Franco participates in the Un Certain Regard section. Guillaume Canet's Blood Ties screens out of...Read more...
Enough Is Enough No More Looting of Somalias Oil
There has been a recent influx of oil companies to Somalia, but the country has been offered only a 7% share of the proceeds from the exploitation of its oil. This problem was foreshadowed by the former Somali President Mohamed...Read more...
Bahrain Attends WHO Meeting
Geneva-May-20(BNA)Bahrain delegation led by Health Minister Sadiq bin Abdulkarim Al-Shehabi today attended the 66th annual meeting of the World Health Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland. Bahrain Representative to the United...Read more...
New Case of SARS-like Virus in Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia, a new case of the deadly coronavirus has been detected where 15 people have already died after contracting it, the health ministry announced on its Internet website. "One new case of novel coronavirus recorded...Read more...
Cambodians Abroad Sent Home $256M Last Year
Cambodian migrant workers sent home $256 million last year, according to a report from the U.N. agency and the World Bank, which was released in Bangkok yesterday. The report from the bank and Rome-based International Fund for...Read more...
Nigerian adolescents and HIV.
Nigerian adolescents and HIV. More than 180,000 adolescents living with HIV in Nigeria. The amount of air during the national dialogue on adolescents living with HIV in Nigeria, on Tuesday, in order to alleviate the suffering...Read more...
The United Nations Is Promoting Insects As Part Of A Healthy Diet
The United Nations Is Promoting Insects As Part Of A Healthy Diet Some insects may already be in your food (and this is no fly-in-my-soup joke). Demand for natural food coloring as opposed to artificial dyes is increasing, the...Read more...
Peacekeepers in Golan Abducted but Released | NYTimes.com
Armed men broke into a United Nations outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria in the disputed Golan Heights region and abducted three military observers, the peacekeeping chief said on Thursday. Hervé Ladsous, the...Read more...
Comment on Turkey Starts its Own Nuremberg Trials Against Israel by jordan 1
November 7, 2012 By 21wire 231 Comments Editor’s Note: If it was the other way around, Israel would just go and get them. “In absentia” trials against four senior IDF officers On November 6, 2012, Turkey announced that a court...Read more...
Myanmar: Myanmar Progresses Towards Armed Forces Without Children
Source: UN Office of the SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict Country: Myanmar New York, 20 May 2013 - Myanmar is making progress towards the realization of its commitment to end the recruitment and use of children in its armed...Read more...
Over 150 tales about modern Belarus sent for UNESCO competition
MINSK, 21 May (BelTA) – Over 150 tales about modern Belarus have been sent by Belarusian students as part of the UNESCO competition, BelTA learnt from the Belarusian Association of UNESCO Clubs, one of the organizers of the...Read more...
Amid competing global challenges public health deserves priority - UN official
Print 20 May 2013 – At a time when the world is dealing with myriad challenges, from climate change to food insecurity, it is more important than ever to ensure that public health receives the both the attention and...Read more...
Pediatricians Want to Keep Thimerosal in Vaccines Despite Health Risks
Occupy Corporatism by Susanne Posel The American Academy of Pediatrics (APP) has released a statement in favor of Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that is detrimental to the health of everyone who is vaccinated. The...Read more...
Findings of global health agencies: EPI failure behind frequent measles outbreaks
LAHORE, May 20: The frequent epidemics of measles were the outcome of the terribly low coverage of vaccine among children in the country which has ultimately led to a ‘national failure’. It was a unanimous finding of global...Read more...
Landmine casualties rising in Kachin, Myanmar
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), Landmine casualties rising in Kachin, Myanmar, 15 May 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/519b27ed4.html [accessed 21 May 2013] This is not a UNHCR publication....Read more...
Associated Press Financial Times and BBC have been hacked by them - but who are the Syrian...
Earlier this month, several employees of the satirical news website The Onion received what looked like harmless unsolicited emails, containing apparently innocuous hyperlinks. One such message purported to be from an address...Read more...
Iraq delivers a range of property to Kuwait, Signs agreement in presence of UN rep
"The Kuwaiti side looked forward to further cooperation and get rid of the effects of the previous regime and heavy legacy of outstanding issues, especially since Kuwait is looking forward to get Iraq out of Chapter VII."Read more...
Bosnia and Herzegovina lags in progress to regional integration, Security Council told
UN News Service, Bosnia and Herzegovina lags in progress to regional integration, Security Council told, 14 May 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/519b2b5a4.html [accessed 21 May 2013] This is not a UNHCR...Read more...
Amos Sudan visit to include Darfur after meetings in Khartoum
KHARTOUM Baroness Valerie Amos, assistant Secretary General to the UN Agency for Humanitarian Affairs arrived in Khartoum on Monday, will meet with officials in Khartoum on Tuesday, and will also include Darfur in her visit....Read more...
UNESCO solemnizes 900th birthday of Mehseti Ganjavi in Paris
By AzerNews The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the organizational support of Azerbaijan's representation at UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism celebrated the 900th...Read more...
Virus Alert: Australian Travelers to EU, UAE Warned of SARS-Like Virus
n travelers may be in need of a health check after a refreshing European or Middle Eastern trip, warns a WA disease expert. Curtin University professor Charles Watson told Yahoo New Australia that a SARS-like virus, which has...Read more...
Obama Hoping To ‘Craft His Legacy’ in This New Sectarian America
It seemed to live up to all the pundits’ expectations. The Second Inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama was broadcast in the genre of an American version of the royal coronation, a Hollywood-style, stage-managed ceremony which,...Read more...
Let them eat… insects
sovereignman.com / By Simon Black / May 20, 2013 In what may go down as one of the most obtusely out-of-touch policy memos ever written, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization recently released a paper entitled...Read more...
Africa loses $50bn annually to illicit fund flow – Mbeki
Thabo Mbeki said this during a visit to President Jonathan. The Chairman of the United Nations High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, Thabo Mbeki , has said that the continent loses, at least, $50 billion...Read more...
Israel to return settlement’s land to Palestinian owners – Xinhua
JERUSALEM, May 19 (Xinhua) — The state of Israel announced on court last week that it would return the lands of a settlement evacuated in 2005 back to its original Palestinian owners, local media reported on Sunday. The...Read more...
