A powerful typhoon is threatening the Korean Peninsula, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Typhoon Sanba, with peak winds of 155 mhp, was reported to be heading towards Japan and South Korea on Friday. Clare Nullis is WMO spokesperson in Geneva. "There's a strong typhoon which is currently in the Pacific on the trajectory [...]
Although the depletion of the ozone layer that protects the earth from the sun's harmful rays is still happening, it has levelled off. That's according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which attributes this success to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. WMO says that globally, the protocol is estimated to [...]
Eighty-seven migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa who tried to use a smuggler to get to Italy have asked the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to help them return home. The agency says the migrants, who were left stranded on the Tunisian coast on Sunday, were part of a group of 154 mainly Sub-Saharan Africans who [...]
NAR: The adoption of the 2001 Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons was the tangible reflection of the need for coordinated action at the multilateral level to prevent and combat the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. So says Barbados’ representative to the United Nations Ambassador Joseph Goddard. His comments [...]
The open borders in the Caribbean make us an easy conduit for trans-shipment between the major sources and destinations of small arms and light weapons and ammunition. That’ s what Jamaica’ s representative Farah Browne told the conclusion of the second United Nations conference to review the 2001 Programme of Action on trafficking in small [...]
Children in Syria are receiving assistance from the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) as the school year starts on Sunday. The security and safety of students remain a concern in the country, where more than 800 schools are being used as shelter by displaced families. Citing figures from the Syrian Ministry of Education, the children's agency [...]
1. New UN Report calls for action to reduce hazards from chemicals. 2. Unemployment is higher for youth. 3. Children in an Indian village lead the way towards better sanitation. 4. Literacy and peace is the theme of this year's International Literacy Day. Narrated and Produced by Ambalika Misra Duration: 15’00″
1. UN agencies fear Syria could be among greatest humanitarian crisis. 2. Dengue fever symptoms mask as flu. 3. Kazakhstan continues to suffer from effects of nuclear tests. 4. ILO convention offers hope to Bote people of Nepal Narrated and Produced by Ambalika Misra Duration: 15’00″
Conflicts continue to challenge the international community and take a heavy toll on nations and people around the world, says the United Nations. At a meeting of the UN General Assembly on Thursday, participants explored the role of mediation in settling such conflicts. In fact, the role of mediation in the settlement of disputes by [...]
The rights of children with disabilities featured prominently at a major United Nations meeting that concluded in New York on Friday. Delegates gathered at UN headquarters to review implementation of the UN's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Violence, lack of access to education and the right of children to speak for themselves [...]
Spending over a trillion of dollars on weapons in one year alone has been described by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as "a moral outrage". The Secretary-General spoke at the General Assembly's High-level Forum on the Culture of Peace on Friday. Mr. Ban said war causes the largest destruction but even in countries at peace, [...]
1.Food prices remain unchanged in August, says FAO chief 2.States are urged to sign and ratify nuclear test ban treaty by Ban ki-Moon 3.Navi Pillay urges Bahraini authorities to release all political activists 4.Role of UN is to help governments protect citizens, says GA President 5.Responsibilty to protect faces urgent test : UN chief 6. [...]
1.Ban Ki-moon urges developing countries to answer peoples' aspirations 2.People who have disappeared around the world are remembered 3.UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urges leaders in Gambia to stop executions 4.WHO warns of global Dengue fever epidemic 5.Unaccompanied Syrian children seek refuge across borders 6.More people from Horn of Africa cross Gulf of Aden [...]
Spreading the culture of peace is critical to modern society if it is to make a new beginning to live without conflict. That's the message delivered by the President of the General Assembly, Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser at the start of the High-level Forum on the Culture of Peace on Friday. Ambassador Al-Nasser stressed the [...]
More than half a million people in Niger have been affected by flooding in which at least 81 people have died, says the United Nations relief agency (OCHA). According to OCHA, this is an increase from the 485,000 people which the authorities of Niger estimated to have been affected in the first week of September. [...]
An outbreak of Hepatitis E has claimed the lives of 16 Sudanese refugees living in camps in South Sudan, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR. Hepatitis E is a viral disease that attacks the liver and is transmitted through eating food or drinking water contaminated with faecal material. UNHCR says there have been 23 confirmed [...]
The deadly Ebola virus continues to claim more lives in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO says there are now 68 cases of Ebola and 18 deaths, five of which have been confirmed in laboratories to have been caused by the Ebola virus. At least 18 health workers [...]
There are nearly 450,000 young people without jobs in Peru, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). They represent more than two-thirds of the country's unemployed and of the five million young people who do have work, many are in 'precarious' conditions, without social benefits or job security. So instead of looking for a job, [...]
