Africa: 1. UNMISS : United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan The Security Council established the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) for an initial period of one year, starting from 9 July 2011. UNMISS is on the ground to consolidate peace and security and to help establish conditions [...]
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The United Nations peace keeping missions have played a very important role in various conflict theatres around the world. UN Peacekeepers provide security and the political and peace building support to help countries make the difficult, early transition from conflict to peace. Peacekeeping has unique strengths, including legitimacy, burden sharing, and an ability to deploy [...]
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Syria’s government has agreed to accept the peace plan put forward by the United Nations and Arab League envoy. Mr Annan said he considered it “an important initial step that could bring an end to the violence and the bloodshed”, but implementation was key. The plan calls for an end to the fighting in a [...]
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China and the US have agreed to co-ordinate their response to any “potential provocation” if North Korea goes ahead with a planned rocket launch, the White House says. North Korea says the long-range rocket will carry a satellite. The US says any launch would violate UN resolutions and be a missile test. US President Barack [...]
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Saudi Arabia has shut down its embassy in Syria and withdrawn its staff and diplomats, al-Arabiya reported citing a statement by Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry. According to the statement, made public by the Saudi Press Agency Wednesday, the decision had been made “due to the developments in Syria”. A number of Arab and Western countries, [...]
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Right to Education has been universally recognized since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, and have since been reinforced or enshrine by many legally binding internationalcovenants and conventions as well as variousnational constitutions and development plans. Although majority of the nations have signed and ratified international conventions(UN Convention on the Rights of the Child),far fewer have integrated these rights into their national constitutions or provided legislative and administrative frameworks to ensure that these rights are realized in practice. Human rights are regarded as worth of respect and protection. [...]
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Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai have been elected the Chairman of the United Nations‘ panel of external auditors. The panel of independent external auditors carries out audits and reports periodically on the accounts and management operations of the United Nations, specialised agencies like WHO, WFP and WIPO and the International Atomic Energy [...]
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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) ofIndia, Vinod Rai was on 8 December 2011 elected chairman of the United Nations panel of external auditors. Rai succeeded Norbert Hauser, vice-president ofGermany’s Federal Court of Auditors as chairman of the United Nations panel of external auditors. As head of the panel, Rai will shoulder the responsibility of [...]
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India on November 1 voiced surprise at Australian foreign minister Kevin Rudd‘s remarks suggesting trilateral security agreement between US, India and Australia, and made it clear it was not keen on it. The defence ministry officials took a tougher stand, saying they were taken aback at the statement of the Australian foreign minister. The defence [...]
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With a UN panel equating killing of tens of thousands of people in the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil strife to "war crimes", the issues raised in the report need to be studied carefully and it intends to engage with Sri Lankan government on these matters. "The government has seen the Report [...]
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UN Security Council approved imposing a no-fly zone over battle-torn Libya and authorised "all necessary measures" to protect civilians, voting for a resolution in which India and four other countries abstained. Ten of the 15-members of UN’s policy-making body voted in favour of the resolution which also calls for an immediate ceasefire in Libya where [...]
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EU nations must invest more in energy efficiency and green technologies in order to retain economic advantages, the European Commission has urged. The exhortation comes in the commission road-map to 2050 on climate and energy. Its key message is that the bloc risks losing out to competitors that are putting more money into these areas [...]
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The United Nations plans to expand assistance through food aid, vouchers or cash, scale up nutritional support, and improve safety nets and social protection programmes to help the most vulnerable sections caught in the food crisis and price spiral. The proposals aim to : boost production durably through establishment of appropriate national policy frameworks, improvement [...]
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India has suggested a five step anti-piracy action plan to combat the menace in the Indian Ocean where Somali pirates are attacking ships and demanding millions of dollars as ransom money. “Pirates have developed significant support structures whereby they are able to hold hijacked ships and crew hostages for months while their instigators and supporters [...]
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J P Morgan Chase and other US banks are closing down the bank accounts of scores of diplomatic missions and embassies here without giving any clarification, angering foreign diplomats who are worried about how they will carry on their regular activities. While no explanation has been offered, observers have suggested that these accounts are being [...]
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