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27 December
Ban Ki-moon “comes to the job at a very difficult time”,
said Lee Feinstein, senior fellow on United States foreign
policy and international law and a former State Department
official under the administration of former President Bill
Clinton, while speaking to journalists on 21 December 2006.
13 December
Speakers at a recent meeting at UN Headquarters outlined
a "zero-tolerance" policy toward this problem and
discussed innovative ways to fight it, including DNA sampling
and an "anti-prostitution campaign" for 2007.
12 December
The United Nations Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF)
was created in December 2005, and provided the ability to
save thousands of additional lives by getting to those disasters
faster and better equipped.
12 December
Poverty is a matter of human rights, said a panel of experts
at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The discussion,
titled "Beyond Charity: Rights, Power and Poverty",
held on 8 December 2006, was one of a series of events that
marked the annual Human Rights Day celebration on 10 December.
7 December
Defining environmental governance as "how we organize
ourselves to be more responsive to environmental challenges",
the Swiss Permanent Representative to the United Nations,
Peter Maurer, spoke on this topic at an event organized by
the United Nations NGO Committee on Sustainable Development
on 5 December 2006.
6 December
Globalization is changing migration and the roles of men
and women, said experts on migration from the United Nations
and universities in New York, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia
and Hong Kong on 4 December 2006.
1 December
Perspectives after the Internet Governance Forum Inaugural
Meeting held in Athens, Greece from 30 October to 2 November
2006.
29 November 2006
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With some of the
world's most rapidly rising HIV/AIDS infection rates,
Eastern Europe and Central Asia present a snapshot of
the face of the virus' newest demographic: young, diverse
and at a crossroad. |
27 November 2006
The United States' third-ranking diplomat told a gathering
in New York of a "sea change" in United States relations
with South Asia, saying his country now "views what happens
in South Asia as vital to the strategic interests of the United
States itself".
14 November 2006
"If we didn't have the Secretary-General or the United
Nations to blame, the big powers would be blaming each other,"
said Paul M. Kennedy, speaking at a panel discussion at the
Council on Foreign Relations in New York City on the 8 November.
26 October 2006
Addressing the General Assembly, Judge Rosalyn Higgins, president
of the International Court of Justice, called for more UN
support for the ICJ, especially in terms of budget and staffing,
in light of the court's increasing prominence.
13 October 2006
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With words of welcome
and support the United Nations General Assembly appointed
Ban Ki-moon, foreign minister of the Republic of Korea,
to its highest post. |
12 October 2006
Marking the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the New Partnership
for Africa's Development (NEPAD), representatives to the sixty-first
General Assembly session met this morning and reasserted their
commitment to the programme.
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