The Sudanese Government has announced
its acceptance of the proposal for a 
hybrid
United Nations-African Union peacekeeping operation
The Sudanese Government
has announced its acceptance of the proposal for a hybrid
UN-African Union peacekeeping operation to the violence-wracked
Darfur region: "I explained to the Council that
this was in our view a significant step forward."
A New Meningitis Vaccine Proven Effective in West African
Children
A
new meningitis vaccine has proven effective in West African
children. An outbreak of meningitis was first recorded in
late 2006. Since that time over 27,000 cases have occurred
with some 2,000 deaths reported. Dr. Maripol Kieny, Director
of the World Health Organization's Vaccine Research Initiative,
talks to UNTV's Yvette Morris about the disease and efforts
being made to curb it:
"Meningitis is a devastating disease. It can
kill and it can also leave the affected person who recovers
permanently and mentally handicapped."
The Unhealthy Effects of Extracting
Oil from the Ground
"Nnimmo
Bassey, Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action,
based in Nigeria, is a human rights advocate concerned with
the unhealthy effects of extracting oil from the ground.
He spoke to UN Radio's Dianne Penn on the occasion of World
Environment Day:
"Oil extraction is essentially harmful to the
environment except where very extreme care is taken. But
in Nigeria that has not been the case."
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MDGs Data on sub-Sahara African
Achievements released in time for G8 Summit
The UN has released a mid-term report on how African countries
are doing in pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals.
The report was timed to coincide with the G-8 Summit in
Germany.
World Environment Day Festivities
in Norway Open with Appeal for Planetary Care
A church service on Sunday
at the Arctic Cathedral in
Tromso, Norway started the festivities for World Environment
Day this year. The benedictions were given in Norwegian,
Inuit and Xhosa. The
sermon was read by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. “The
future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands.
We are stewards of God’s creation.”
A report issued by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says
the melting of the glaciers will have global impact, raising
sea levels by 20 to 80 centimeters this century and affecting
the availability of fresh water from the spring thaw of
snow and ice.
Head of Human Rights calls for
ending impunity for sexual violence in DRC
The
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for ending
the impunity of perpetrators of sexual violence in the Great
Lakes region of Africa. Returning from a 12-day tour
of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi,
Louise Arbour focused especially on the DRC and the gender
violence that has accompanied the conflict there.
“The level of sexual violence in
its intensity is pretty surprising and appalling.”
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Tenth anniversary of the Rwandan
genocide: Why did the genocide happen? Why was the
UN unable to prevent the killings or stop the massacres?
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