http://www.un.org/news A world of news from the world organization. en-us Copyright 2012, UN News Centre http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/media/nslogo.gif http://www.un.org/news 140 Latest from the UN News Service http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41204&Cr=argentina&Cr1= Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced hope that Argentina and the United Kingdom can avoid escalating their dispute over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and resolve their differences through dialogue. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41189&Cr=ohchr&Cr1= Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST A senior United Nations human rights official has voiced concern over a wave of violence inside prisons in South America, where at least eight inmates have been killed in the past two weeks in four separate countries. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41175&Cr=caribbean&Cr1= Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST An increasing crime rate is threatening economies and livelihoods in Caribbean countries, states a new United Nations report that calls for the right mix of policies and programmes to tackle the problem. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41182&Cr=haiti&Cr1= Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST Haiti has made some progress in restoring the rule of law, the United Nations independent expert on the human rights situation in the Caribbean country said today, citing as examples the appointment of the president of the highest appellate court and the upcoming establishment of the supreme council of the judiciary. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41161&Cr=Indigenous&Cr1= Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST An independent United Nations expert on indigenous rights called today on the Government of Panama and the country's indigenous groups to establish a dialogue process to stop the recent tensions and violence from escalating after recent protests. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41170&Cr=refugees&Cr1= Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST A United Nations-backed census has been launched in the Dominican Republic to improve to the lives of hundreds of refugees and asylum-seekers. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41116&Cr=climate+change&Cr1= Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST Criminal gangs are becoming a threat to the world's glaciers, which are already receding as a result of climate change, the United Nations said today, citing a case in Chile where police are investigating the theft of some 5,000 kilograms of millennia-old ice from the Jorge Montt glacier. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41122&Cr=el+salvador&Cr1= Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST A United Nations expert human rights panel has voiced concern about the right to security impinging on the right to be free from arbitrary detention in El Salvador, as well as extreme overcrowding in prisons and police facilities in the Central American nation. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41123&Cr=haiti&Cr1= Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST The United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti (MINUSTAH) welcomed today the ratification by the Government of a pact on economic, social and cultural rights. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41082&Cr=Haiti&Cr1= Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST The United Nations today voiced its concern at reports that former Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier may not face charges relating to the serious human rights violations that took place during his 15-year rule, while stressing that justice must be ensured for the victims.