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A U.N. food agency said Thursday it will cooperate with any independent probe into its food operations in Somalia, after a report found that up to half the food aid intended for the nation's hungry people does not reach its destination. Gå til kilden

Special United Nations bomb disposal units today successfully destroyed two unexploded ordnance (UXO) containing white phosphorus in the Gaza Strip, the first of a series of planned activities to be conducted in the region over the coming months. Gå til kilden

An outside review of a U.N. panel -- promised after flaws were uncovered in the panel's most recent report on climate change -- will not recheck that report's conclusions and will instead focus on improving procedures for the future, officials said Wednesday. Gå til kilden

Up to half the food aid intended for the millions of hungry people in Somalia is being diverted to corrupt contractors, radical Islamic militants and local U.N. workers, according to a U.N. Security Council report. Gå til kilden

Regjeringen har åpnet FNs Naturmangfoldår og innsett at den ikke oppfyller løftet om å stanse tapet av norsk naturmangfold i 2010. Når Stoltenberg trekker i busserullen eller lusekofta på budsjettkonferanse, må han huske at vi bruker opp stadig mer norsk natur, og at Kina har satt klarere mål for skogvern enn Norge. Gå til kilden

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has paid tribute to the 101 UN "heroes" who died in the Haiti quake at a ceremony in New York. Gå til kilden

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon will meet with senior U.S. officials this week to emphasize Israel's growing displeasure with the slow pace of diplomacy on Iran at the U.N. Security Council, according to a senior Israeli official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivity. Gå til kilden

The war of words between the Sri Lankan government and the United Nations has begun all over again, this time over the creation of an experts’ panel on the island’s human rights record. Gå til kilden

As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff members, according to a new Security Council report. Gå til kilden

Myanmar’s elections scheduled for this year must include detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. Gå til kilden

While celebrities earn notoriety from publicly going into rehab, millions of impoverished drug addicts are being ostracized, do not have access to doctors and are often imprisoned, a senior U.N. official said Monday. Gå til kilden

The head of a U.N. treaty on conserving biological diversity wants to see the adoption of a new protocol on the use of genetic resources in such sectors as pharmaceuticals, agriculture, horticulture, cosmetics and biotechnology at an October meeting in Nagoya Gå til kilden

Women in the Asia-Pacific region have little economic and political power, impacting economic growth prospects of developing nations, the United Nations said in a report released on Monday. Gå til kilden

The United Nations, through its Development Programme (UNDP), has selected Smartmatic to provide new technologies for the improvement of the electoral register of the Republic of Zambia. Smartmatic, a leading provider of technological solutions for governments, was selected after the UN conducted a rigorous testing of numerous identity and registry technologies Gå til kilden

The Tomb of the Patriarchs -- a site revered by Jews, Muslims and Christians as the burial place of their common forefather, Abraham -- needed bathrooms and a new roof over an outdoor prayer area. To the spokesman for Hebron's Jewish settler community, that should not have been grounds for international scandal. Gå til kilden

The "successive failures" of the United Nations to follow through threats to Saddam Hussein weakened it ahead of the Iraq war, David Miliband has said. Gå til kilden

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Sunday strongly signaled his country's reluctance to back sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, but did not shut the door completely to the possibility. Gå til kilden

India will have to scale up prevention of HIV to avoid having to spend an increasing share of its health budget on treatment of AIDS patients, the World Bank and other agencies said Sunday. Gå til kilden

The Standing Committee of the Bern Convention (the Council of Europe Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats), has adopted a new recommendation for biofuels. Gå til kilden

The head of a U.N. treaty on conserving biological diversity wants to see the adoption of a new protocol on the use of genetic resources in such sectors as pharmaceuticals, agriculture, horticulture, cosmetics and biotechnology at an upcoming meeting in Nagoya slated for October. Gå til kilden

The United Nations could begin withdrawing troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world, as early as June, the peacekeeping chief said Friday. Gå til kilden

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to ask a panel of experts to advise the world body on "accountability issues" relating to possible human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, his spokesman said Friday. Gå til kilden

A U.S. official denied on Friday that Washington had consented to a U.N. Security Council statement to reporters voicing concern about the fighting between Israel forces and Palestinians. Gå til kilden

When darkness comes to Congo Town, women in crisp uniforms take the streets, patrolling with Kalashnikov rifles and long, black hair tucked into baby-blue caps. Gå til kilden

A group of U.N. experts will look into the plight of Haitians with disabilities, disproportionately affected by January's earthquake, the United Nations said. Gå til kilden

Bioethics increasingly has implications for many areas of people’s lives and it is important to identify common ground around which controversial discussions can take place, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told hundreds of students today in New York. Gå til kilden

Vi må ikke la oss narre av James Camerons overfladiske Hollywood-marxisme, bakenfor sympatien for de fattige lurer det en dypt reaksjonær fortelling, skriver Slavoj Zizek om Avatar og den forlatte Hollywood-ideologien om pardannelse som alle tings mål og mening. Gå til kilden

The U.S. envoy to the United Nations accused Sudan on Thursday of "cavalier" violations of U.N. sanctions aimed at limiting the flow of arms and curbing violence in its conflict-torn Darfur region. Gå til kilden

China firmly supports the central role of the United Nations in international affairs, and the efforts to safeguard and strengthen the authority of the world body, a new Chinese envoy to the UN said Thursday. Gå til kilden

Haitians must proceed with their presidential election this year despite the burden of earthquake damage, the top United Nations official in the country said Thursday. Gå til kilden