Urging reporters in New York to ?keep the focus on Haiti?, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today said that ?although commendable progress has been made, the situation remains dire? three months after the massive earthquake that killed nearly 250,000 people, left 1 million others homeless and levelled the capital, Port-au-Prince. Just back from a […]
Some 10 Million Detained Persons Denied Personal Liberties, Workshop Told as United Nations Crime Congress Continues (Received from a UN Information Officer.) SALVADOR, Brazil, 15 April — Decrying the “appalling” circumstances believed to affect roughly 10 million detainees worldwide, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture today described massive differences in the treatment of prisoners, and […]
Life Expectancy Up, Says United Nations Population Fund, but Medical Advances Not Reaching Huge Swaths of Developing World, People Dying of Preventable Diseases While life expectancy had risen in all regions over the past 50 years — one major achievement of the last century — health improvements and medical advances were not reaching huge […]
Secretary-General, Executive Director Stress Need to Implement Treaties (Received from a UN Information Officer.) SALVADOR, Brazil, 12 April — The Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice opened this morning in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, with a fervent call by United Nations and Government officials for stronger global cooperation among all stakeholders, […]
Members of the General Assembly committee negotiating a comprehensive anti-terrorism convention expressed hope this morning that remaining obstacles to completing the long-stalled draft text could be overcome during the Committee?s fourteenth session, which opened today. ?Continuing acts of terror in different parts of the world, which have taken a heavy toll on innocent human […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, delivered by John Sandage, Officer-in-Charge, Division for Treaty Affairs, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in Salvador, Brazil, 12 April: Organized crime poses a threat to international peace and security like never before. It is a […]
On 12 April 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the seven entries below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) […]
The following statement was issued on Saturday, 10 April, by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General was shocked to hear the news of the plane crash in which Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife and many other people, including senior officials, were killed in Smolensk, Russia. On behalf of the United Nations, […]
The following statement was issued on Saturday, 10 April, by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General was shocked to hear the news of the plane crash in which Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife and many other people, including senior officials, were killed in Smolensk, Russia. On behalf of the United Nations, […]
NEW YORK, 9 April (United Nations Population Division) — As mortality declined in most countries during the twentieth century, life expectancy has risen in all world regions, the United Nations reports, ahead of an intergovernmental meeting on population and development next week in New York. From 47 years in 1950-1955, global life expectancy increased […]
