Responding to a warning issued by the Managing Director of the IMF where it warned that the Fund would be forced to "pull a red card" if the country didn't improve its statistics, Argentina's President said that her country was "not a soccer team". UNTV
The three Panel's Co-Chairs, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Prime Minister David Cameron of theUnited Kingdom and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia briefed the media immediately following the first meeting of the Secretary-General's High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. UNTV
In his first appearance before the United Nations as President of France, François Hollande urged the adoption of a financial transaction tax on the movement of capital to fund programs for development and the eradication of diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria and called for protection of the areas controlled by the Syrian opposition. UNTV [...]
The United Nations and its partners today (25 September) stressed that stronger actions and commitment are needed from world leaders to prevent conflict-related sexual violence and to secure justice for survivors of gender-based crimes. UNTV
The UN and its partners in world health issues today (25 September) announced the launch of The Big Push, a campaign to raise support for global health goals. UNTV
A host of regulatory reforms are under way around the world to make the financial system safer, but a study by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) shows that there is still a lot of work to do by regulators, supervisors, and the private sector to put the system on a firmer footing. IMF
The UN Secretary-General said today (25 September) at the General Assembly, "we need look no further than this room to see expressions of the thirst for progress".UNTV
The World Health Organization confirmed Tuesday (25 September) that the new virus found in two men from theArabian Peninsula, is not the SARS virus and differs from the SARS virus in that it causes very rapid renal failure. WHO
US President Barack Obama told the UN General Assembly today (25 September), “Given the power of faith in our lives, and the passion that religious differences can inflame, the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech.” UNTV