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UN CEO Water Mandate calls for corporate and government action but goes largely ignored. Only 20 of 1000 companies who attended the World Ecoonomic Forum have signed.

Rebel militia and government forces continue to battle on both sides of the Chad-Sudan border. Each nation has rejected UN peacekeepers to assist AU forces in the region.

The recent deaths of African Union (AU) peacekeepers highlights the continued unrest and strife in Darfur.

Secretary General condemns Burma's rulers for playing politics with victims lives following Cyclone Nargis.

Uncertainty looms as UN Staff Council voices opposition to expanded role for UN and issues its own Resolution, calling for the removal of all UN staff based in Iraq.

A comprehensive United Nations report warns that, despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

President Mugabe is sworn in after the June 27th Elections under scrutiny from the world's media and controversy surrounding the legitmacy of the elections.

The surge of piracy has exposed the threat that chaotic Somalia poses to world peace. Has the Brussels Conference set the right path to curbing the crisis?

A lucrative cocaine trade is flooding West Africa, which is fast becoming a key transit hub for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cocaine smuggled to Europe.

With women joining national military and police in greater numbers, it is critical that Member States contribute even more female personnel to the United Nations.

Adding to the main causes of biodiversity loss such as deforestation, changes in habitat and land degradation are now alien species harming native ecosystem services.

Conflict, women's health and football are some of the issues that African leaders discussed during their two-day summit in Addis Ababa.

The United Nations, African Union and United States have announced their commitment to achieve peace in Sudan's troubled western region.

On Saturday April 11, 2009 protesters in Thailand broke through a police cordon surrounding the ASEAN Summit's venue, forcing the PM to cancel the summit indefinitely.

Never in the history of mankind have so many people been so hungry. Since 2007 rising food prices and economic crises have slowed progress towards alleviating hunger.

On March 16, 2009, U.S. based television network MTV officially announced the release of a new anime video designed to raise awareness about human trafficking in Asia.

Burma's government hamper relief effort as aid agencies wait for entry visas. World Food Programme dismayed by junta's reluctance to allow its logisticians into Burma.

Contemporary artist and UN Goodwill Ambassador Ross Bleckner curated the exhibition Welcome to Gulu benefiting children of Uganda's war-torn Gulu province.

A new strain of influenza has a dangerous affect on both the weak and the strong, which has generated a global threat of massive proportions!

On June 21 a peace agreement was reached and signed between the Government of the Central African Republic and the country's major rebel groups in Libreville, Gabon.

The United Nations Security Council, unanimously passed an anti-proliferation resolution calling on all states to rid themselves of their nuclear weapons.

The Darfur Peace Agreement has hardly lived up to its name but Special Envoys from the United Nations and African Union are trying to convince rebels to sign the pact.

International leaders are outraged by what has happened recently in Zimbabwe. A police crackdown on a prayer rally highlights the deteriorating situation.

If you want to lend a hand with the conflict in Darfur, these organizations may be a place to start.

Israeli lies about UN school attack receive little mention, while UN calls for investigation are opposed by Human Rights Council member states including Canada.

The world food shortage is being blamed on increased biofuel production. Do biofuels cause world food shortage or are there other reasons for this food scarcity?

One year later and the negotiations are over. ETA declares a return to the struggle, whilst the President laments and the opposition calls for an early election in Spain.

There is one resource necessary to the very existence of mankind . It is essential, irreplaceable and can not be substituted. It is water.

The state of Iran's nuclear program remains in question, despite their continued rhetoric of transparency. The peaceful use of their nuclear program also remains suspect.

Nine years after commitments to cure the problems of Third World poverty, the global community has made disappointing progress.

The UN set in 2015 the deadline to achieve the millennium development goals and put an end to poverty, but time is running fast and much work remains to be done.

A brief look at some events and people to impact history in a major way on this date, December 1.

Jeffrey Sachs makes a clear case how to address global challenges in ways that will be economically beneficial, ecologically positive and reduce conflict for all.

A months-long Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip is currently putting 1.5 million Palestinian lives -750,00 children- under serious threat, amid international silence.

"Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time," says U.S. economist Jeffrey D. Sachs in his milestone book "The End of Poverty".

In the spirit of popular will brought about by Barack Obama, the United Nations and the League of Arab States are called upon to adopt a new mantra: "No We Can't".

Construction has begun on yet another Hollywood sex goddess, but it seems this one has brought her own blueprints

With the G8 2009 meeting over, environmentalists are now looking towards the December United Nations summit in Copenhagen, Denmark for a binding treaty to cut carbon.