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2010-08-20 |
Excellencies, Sir John Holmes, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Noble humanitarians, Good morning. We just had a brief but very solemn ceremony remembering our fallen colleagues seven years ago in Baghdad. They are not the only ones, unfortunately...
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2010-08-04 |
The world’s indigenous peoples have preserved a vast amount of humanity’s cultural history. Indigenous peoples speak a majority of the world’s languages, and have inherited and passed on a wealth of knowledge, artistic for...
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2010-08-03 |
(Bonn, 2 August 2010) – The third round of UN climate change negotiations this year kicked off on Monday with representatives from 178 governments meeting in Bonn, Germany. The Bonn UN Climate Change Conference (2 to 6 August) is desi...
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2010-08-02 |
Geneva | Friday 30 July 2010 -- During World Breastfeeding Week, celebrated from 1 to 7 August in more than 170 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) reiterates its call on health facilities and health workers to implement ten step...
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2010-08-02 |
By Navi PillayUnited Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsDayaram expected to hold his baby in his arms. Instead, he was left to mourn his wife and unborn child. They died of complications during labour because Dayaram's wife, Bushba, ...
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2010-07-26 |
United Nations Press Release L/3161; ORG/1532 12 July 2010The United Nations is concerned that fraudulent correspondence using the Organization’s name and emblem is circulating worldwide via websites, e-mails, fax messages and p...
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2010-07-23 |
Manila, 23 July--Secretary Heherson Alvarez, vice-chairperson of the Climate Change Commission, said that developing countries like the Philippines must press on with making “deep and early cuts” in their greenhouse gas (GHG) em...
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2010-07-20 |
The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Manila, in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) based in Geneva, Switzerland, is launching the World Investment Report 2010 (WIR2010) on 22 July in M...
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2010-07-12 |
The “Citizen Ambassadors to the UN” video contest on the UN channel on YouTube is now underway. Call–for-entries videos featuring well-known personalities, including the Secretary-General, UN Messengers of Peace and ...
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2010-07-12 |
Monrovia, Liberia – UN Envoy Ellen Margrethe Løj has paid tribute to Philippine peacekeepers serving the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) for their hard work and dedication to the maintenance of peace and stability in Liberia. She...
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2010-07-07 |
MANILA, Philippines, July 6, 2010—The President is in place, now the real work begins. Thus reminded the United Nations Millennium Campaign and its partner civic organizations, following the well-received inaugural address of Presiden...
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2010-07-01 |
With an egalitarian ethos, participatory decision-making, common ownership and commitment to goals beyond the profit motive, cooperatives are expanding opportunities for women in local economies and societies throughout the world. As ...
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2010-06-25 |
On the annual observance of Public Service Day, we pay tribute to public servants everywhere who have improved the lives of others in their communities.Public service is not always an easy career choice to make, but it can be immensely rewa...
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2010-06-21 |
As we prepare for this September’s United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals, we must recognize the major impediment to development posed by drug abuse and illicit trafficking. As this year’s theme stresses...
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2010-06-15 |
Torture is a crime under international law. The prohibition of torture is absolute and unambiguous. Torture cannot be justified under any circumstances whatsoever, whether during a state of war or in response to terrorism, polit...
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2010-06-15 |
On this observance of World Refugee Day, we must note a troubling trend: the decline in the number of refugees who are able to go home.In 2005, more than a million people returned to their own country on a voluntary basis. Last year, ...
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2010-06-15 |
More than one billion poor and vulnerable people living in the world’s drylands, where efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals face particular challenges and thus have lagged behind.Almost three-quarters of rangelands show...
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2010-06-03 |
By Navy PillayUnited nations High Commissioner for Human RightsThe Football World Cup kicks off on June 11. This is an opportune occasion to reflect on the fact that sport is meant to foster social cohesion, bring different cultures t...
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2010-06-01 |
This year’s observance of World No Tobacco Day focuses on "Gender and tobacco, with an emphasis on marketing to women".Although fewer than one out of ten women are smokers, that still adds up to an estimated 200 million wome...
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2010-05-24 |
MANILA, Philippines, May 21, 2010— As build-up to the September 17-19 Special Edition Stand Up, Take Action Campaign to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Probe Media Foundation, Inc. partnered with the United Nations Mi...
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