Haiti says it faces a number of challenges connected with climate change
20/03/2008
.Haiti says there's no longer any doubt that human actions are having a significant and negative effect on the world's atmosphere.
Antigua and Barbuda says gender-responsive budgeting is a crucial element for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
The Bahamas says an unfair global trade and economic system is making it difficult for Caribbean States.
.The United Nations says an independent tsunami early warning system for the Caribbean, to be in place by 2010, is a major step closer, after a UN-backed coordinating group gave the go-ahead for a regional data-sharing system.
.As the Caribbean struggles to combat spiraling crime, an official of the United Nations Children's Fund –UNICEF says the roots of the problem lie in domestic violence that annually claims the lives of at least 80,000 children worldwide.
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