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Tensions between Israel and Islamic nations have scuttled plans by the U.N. atomic watchdog agency to convene talks this year on a Mideast free of nuclear weapons, according to a document shared with The Associated Press. Gå til kilden

Children too often invisible in decisions about tax, welfare, housing and health – Children’s Commissioner Gå til kilden

As the army in southern Sudan has pledged to end the use of child soldiers by the end of the year, a UN special envoy on Wednesday expressed her concern about recruitments that could be renewed at time of war. Gå til kilden

Millennium Development Goals Moral Imperative, But Largely Off-Track For Poorest, Least Politically Powerful People, Says Declaration At DPI/NGO Conference Gå til kilden

The UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( MONUSCO) on Wednesday reported that the number of civilians who had been brutally gang raped in the eastern part of the DRC late last month now exceeds 240, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters here.
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Rwanda is considering pulling out all its troops from United Nations peacekeeping missions, starting with Darfur, after a leaked draft U.N. report said Rwandan troops may have committed genocide in Congo. Gå til kilden

The United Nations today launched a global action plan to combat human trafficking, with senior UN officials urging that governments worldwide take coordinated and consistent measures to try to defeat the scourge. Gå til kilden

This week's fatal shooting of four Israelis in the West Bank was a transparent attempt to derail the first direct peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, the U.N. chief said on Wednesday. Gå til kilden

International food prices have risen to their highest level in two years, fueled in part by a drought in Russia that lifted the cost of wheat, a U.N. agency said Wednesday. Gå til kilden

The leaders of Cyprus’ Greek and Turkish communities will hold intensive talks next week as part of United Nations-led reunification negotiations, a senior official with the world body announced today. Gå til kilden

Nearly 100 million children in China will be vaccinated against measles this month to help eliminate the disease, a leading cause of avoidable death and disability in developing countries, the WHO said on Wednesday. Gå til kilden

In an effort to assess the effectiveness of polio surveillance in Afghanistan, a group of experts from the United Nations World Health Organization ("http://www.who.int/en/" WHO) have spent a week in villages across the country examining a system used to detect the paralysing disease in children under the age of 15. Gå til kilden

The army in Southern Sudan has pledged to demobilise all child soldiers by the end of the year. Gå til kilden

The amount of farmland being taken in Africa to meet Europe’s increasing demand for biofuels is underestimated and out of control, new investigations by Friends of the Earth reveal today. Gå til kilden

The world is heading for the next major climate change conference in Cancun later this year on course for global warming of up to 3.5C in the coming century, a series of scientific analyses suggest. Gå til kilden

An international committee reviewing the "processes and procedures" of the UN's climate science panel is set to report on Monday. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has faced mounting pressure over errors in its last major assessment of climate science in 2007.
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Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal called for a joint meeting of the parties represented in the Constituent Assembly (CA) on Sunday to hold discussions regarding the future of United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN).
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RWANDA has threatened to withdraw its troops from United Nations peacekeeping operations if the world body publishes a report accusing the Rwandan army of committing possible genocide in Congo in the 1990s, Rwanda’s foreign minister says in a letter sent to the UN.


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Charity predicts more food shortages in Africa because of EU target to produce 10% of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020 Gå til kilden

Cambodia Monday denied media's report that suggested the country might have deal with Iran to build a nuclear power plant. Gå til kilden

Rwanda has threatened to withdraw co-operation with the UN if a draft report criticising its army is published.
Kigali said it would reconsider its contributions to UN peacekeeping missions, dismissing claims in the UN report as "insane".
The document accuses Rwanda's Tutsi-led army of killing Hutus in Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1990s - acts it says may amount to genocide.
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Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began, as the United Nations warned that tens of thousands of children risked death from malnutrition.

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Many clocks will be ticking during the next year when Washington hopes an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal can be hammered out. Gå til kilden

China is lobbying neighbors to sign up to a road map for renewed nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong-il is visiting China amid conciliatory words and threats of "holy war." Gå til kilden

Serious human rights violations were committed during the demonstrations held in Côte d’Ivoire in February following the dissolution of the Government and the national electoral authority, according to the United Nations mission in the West African nation. Gå til kilden

Iran should do more to protect its ethnic minorities such as Arabs, Kurds and Baluch, a United Nations human rights body said on Friday. Gå til kilden

The United Nations refugee agency has expressed concern about the eviction by police in Georgia, during the months of July and August, of hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from State-owned buildings in the capital, Tbilisi. Gå til kilden

A United Nations human rights body rebuked France for its crackdown on Roma and urged authorities to find solutions for integration rather than expulsion. Gå til kilden

Ways to address challenges to biodiversity conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean – which is home to up to 70 per cent of all forms of life on Earth – were the focus of a gathering organized by the United Nations Environment Programme ("http://www.unep.org/"UNEP) this week. Gå til kilden

India's lower house of parliament approved a crucial civilian nuclear liability bill on Wednesday in a bid to open its nuclear market after decades of isolation from the world. Gå til kilden