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Ban Ki-moon Reopens Danish Masterpiece in United Nations Headquarters

4/18/2013 9:00 AM EST - Danish Agency for Culture

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Thursday, April 25th marks the reopening of the Trusteeship Council Chamber at the United Nations Headquarters.

For the past three years, the Trusteeship Council Chamber at the UN, originally designed by renowned Danish architect Finn Juhl in 1952, has been closed for a...

Xbox Live: real racism in a virtual world

3/19/2013 8:36 AM EST - Taylor & Francis

Halo Reach®, Gears of War 2®, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2®, and Call of Duty: Black Ops® The United Nations’ (UN) International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed on 21st March each year. Issues of race in gaming aren’t often discussed – but a study in the current issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia tackles the subject head-on.

Equus Limo handover to UN Secretary-General

12/18/2012 12:32 AM EST - Hyundai Motor Company

Hyundai Motor handed over a bullet-proof Equus Limousine, its flagship luxury sedan, to Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) Ban Ki-moon at the UN Headquarters in New York, U.S. on Monday (Dec. 17). (photo1) Mr. Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, getting into Hyundai Motor's Equus Limousine (photo2) The Equus Limousine, a stretched version of Hyundai Motor’s flagship luxury sedan, Equus

IDMC welcomes new peace deal in Philippines, but warns that challenges remain

10/19/2012 9:05 AM EST - Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

In a public statement released today, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) welcome the signing of a peace deal between the government and rebel group the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), but warns that there are wider issues in the region that need to be addressed before stability can be secured.
“The recent signing of the Framework Agreement on the...

Globally almost 870 million chronically undernourished - new hunger report

10/9/2012 8:57 AM EST - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

But there are hopeful signs that with extra effort the MDG target can be reached
9 October 2012, Rome - Nearly 870 million people, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012, according to the new UN hunger report released today.
The State of Food Insecurity in the World...

‘Internal displacement adds a critical dimension to the Syria debate’, says glob...

10/4/2012 9:12 AM EST - Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Geneva, 16 August, 2012: As the UN supervision mission (UNSMIS) prepares to withdraw from Syria, global monitor the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) warns that unless the needs of the growing numbers of internally displaced people are addressed, the future stability of the country remains bleak.
1.5 million people in Syria have lost their homes and livelihoods since the outbreak of the uprisings...

World leaders urged to ‘move beyond aspirational statements’ and seize ‘historic...

6/18/2012 12:37 PM EST - Stockholm Environment Institute

Press release: 18 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro 13:15

Nobel Laureates, members of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability and members of The Elders gather in Rio for a high-level dialogue issuing a declaration entitled ‘The Future We Choose’– one driven by a collective commitment to planetary stewardship.
The Declaration “The Future We Choose” is available at...

OxySure Celebrates New United Nations Vendor Registration with Salute to all Pea...

5/29/2012 11:35 AM EST - OxySure Systems, Inc.

Frisco, Texas, May 29, 2012 – OxySure® Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:OXYS) (“OxySure”), the pioneering manufacturer of life-saving easy-to-use emergency oxygen solutions with its “oxygen from powder” technology and a registered United Nations Vendor, congratulates Peacekeepers throughout the world on this International Peacekeepers Day.

The United Nations General Assembly designated May 29 as International Peacekeepers Day...

Human Rights is a Foreign Concept in the UN’s “War on Drugs”

3/16/2012 1:18 PM EST - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Latin American Presidents’ Calls for Legalization Debate Go Unheeded at UN Drug Policy Meeting in Vienna
VIENNA, AUSTRIA – Even while several Latin American presidents are calling for an outright debate on drug legalization, delegates at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting this week failed to even discuss a change in the global prohibitionist drug treaties, reports a group of judges,...

UN emission market needs urgent reform

3/14/2012 8:01 PM EST - The Economic and Social Research Council

The United Nations (UN) global carbon market requires substantial reform because it too often fails to support the projects and people it is meant to help, according to new research from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

The research findings are released as the UN, which has designated 2012 the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, begins a policy dialogue about its Clean Development...

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