Since World Teachers’ Day’s inception on October 5, 1994, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and Education International have worked to promote international standards for teaching. This year’s theme in celebrating the cause is “teachers for gender equality.” World Teachers’ Day serves as a reminder for the goals of Education For All and [...]
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office on Friday questioned the fairness of a Bahrain court that sentenced an anti-government protester to death and gave lengthy prison sentences to medical staff who treated the injured during the country’s uprising. Bahrain’s military-run National Safety Court reportedly gave defendants and their lawyers little time to prepare, failed to investigate allegations of torture and conducted [...]
NEW YORK — A Republican lawmaker has introduced a resolution warning Palestinian leaders that Israel would be within its rights to annex the West Bank if they do not drop their bid for statehood at the United Nations this week. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) introduced the resolution as a way of urging Palestinian leaders to [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that he would like to see the MINUSTAH peacekeeping force in Haiti gradually reduced in size as the country stabilizes after a devastating 2010 earthquake. In a pre-recorded interview due to be broadcast by RFI radio and TV5 Monde on Sunday, Ban also apologised for a recent sexual assault [...]
GENEVA (AP) — At least 2,600 people have died in the six months of unrest that has swept Syria, the U.N.’s top human rights official said Monday, as a panel was named to investigate abuses in the Arab country. The figure released by U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay adds to evidence that [...]
The United Nations is growing increasingly vocal in its concerns about civilian casualties and other collateral damage in the ongoing conflict in Libya. On Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon offered some of his strongest remarks yet on the subject, saying through a spokesperson that he was “deeply concerned by reports of the unacceptably large number [...]
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — The U.N. says 26 people were executed in the last month in Ivory Coast and that residents blame forces loyal to the president. Spokesman Guillaume Ngefa said Thursday that the killings happened in areas loyal to former strongman Laurent Gbagbo. He says a 17-month-old child was killed. Gbagbo’s refusal to cede power after losing [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The number of Afghan civilians killed in war-related violence rose 15 percent in the first half of this year, according to a U.N. report released Thursday that offered grim statistics about the human toll of increased fighting. Violence has been on the rise as the Taliban and other insurgents try to [...]
The world is on course to miss United Nations hunger reduction targets set in 2000, despite successes in curbing extreme poverty, a UN report said Thursday. In 2000, the world body’s 192 member states launched eightMillennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015 and the 2011 progress report showed mixed results on the first target of eradicating [...]
Date: 6/10/2011 12:45 AM Read other: UN statement end AIDS EDITH M. LEDERER,Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for global action Wednesday to put an end to AIDS by 2020 and relegate the killer disease to the history books. Opening a three-day General Assembly meeting to assess progress in combatting HIV/AIDS, [...]
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