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Experts Appointed By The Secretary-General To The Board Of The United Nations Register Of Damage Caused By The Construction Of The Wall In The Occupied Palestinian Territory More >>
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reached an agreement with the Government of Chad for the demobilization of child soldiers across the African country. More >>
Ahead of Monday’s activation of the United Nations unit that will register claims for damage caused by Israel’s construction of a barrier in occupied Palestinian territory, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appointed three international compensation ... More >>
The interconnections between education, scientific research and technological innovation and their part in sustainable development will be explored in Trieste, Italy, starting today by policy-makers and experts from the educational, scientific and business ... More >>
Children and their families in 700 remote villages in conflict-ravaged southern Philippines have received essential health care, many for the first time in their lives, through a historic truce arranged with Muslim rebels, the United Nations Children’s Fund ... More >>
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today that it has partnered with the American Red Cross to help fishing communities in Indonesia’s Aceh Province that were heavily impacted by the 2004 tsunami. More >>
Over A Dozen UN Rights Experts Jointly Urge Release Of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi More >>
Although progress has been made at combating discrimination in the workplace, rising gender disparities in income and other forms of discrimination – including age, sexual orientation and HIV/AIDS status – are cause for growing concern, the United ... More >>
The American actress Drew Barrymore was named today as an Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and charged with the task of using her celebrity as a film star to advocate for school feeding projects in some of the ... More >>
The lilting messages of peace and civic engagement will be heard on sound systems across Sierra Leone, starting this week, with the release of a new CD produced by local musicians in collaboration with the United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra ... More >>
Marking the unveiling of a permanent memorial in The Hague to victims of chemical weapons, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today pledged to redouble the efforts of the world body to achieve universal membership of the Chemical Weapons Convention. More >>
The head of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has paid tribute to Judge Claude Jorda of France, whose permanent ill-health has forced him to resign from the body set up under an international treaty to hear trials of individuals charged with acts ... More >>
Prime Minister Helen Clark today expressed her sorrow and that of the people of New Zealand at the passing of His Highness Malietoa Tanumafili II, the Head of State of Samoa. More >>
Yasmine Ryan writes from Lebanon: As Lebanon heads down the fast track to trade liberalisation, some commentators, including UK-based charity Oxfam, are predicting a devastating impact on small-holder farmers. Unable even to sell produce on the Lebanese market ... More >>
Yasmine Ryan writes from Beirut: Ibrahim Akeel has an axe hanging over his neck. Along with his fellow farmers in the southern Lebanese village known as Sinai, the elderly man has little control over his fate and that of his children. More >>
Fiji's Freedom Bloggers have obtained credible information that the military has been pressuring FINTEL, the international telecommunication gateway, to block access within Fiji to our various blogs. More >>
Although the overall security situation in Kosovo is calm, tension is palpable in the ethnic Albanian majority Serbian province that the United Nations has administered since 1999, according to a new report by on last month’s Security Council fact-finding ... More >>
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has welcomed news that Timor-Leste Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta appears to have scored a landslide victory in Presidential elections. More >>
The US war to bring democracy to Iraq has caused a large majority of Middle Eastern Arabs to reject any similar American campaigns in their countries. More >>
IRAN Details/Expectations From Nick Burns' Meeting With P5+1 In Berlin No Updates On Women Held In Iran No Updates On Mr. Levinson, Missing American Citizen More >>
Following the example of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, his deputy today released her financial disclosure statement for 2006-07 to the public after submitting it for review to an outside financial auditing company. More >>
The fragile peace process in Darfur is at a “crossroads,” the United Nations Special Envoy for the strife-torn region said today, as he and his counterpart from the African Union (AU) wrapped up their third joint visit to Sudan. More >>
Calling preparations for the upcoming national elections in Sierra Leone a “remarkable success,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the international community to remain engaged in helping the West African country continue its recovery ... More >>
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that he was “greatly encouraged” by yesterday’s peaceful presidential run-off election in Timor-Leste, the tiny nation that gained independence from Indonesia in 2002. More >>
With an epidemic of mistrust of the “other,” along with rising terrorism and other inter-group violence, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the President of the General Assembly today called on the media, religions and individuals ... More >>
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced today that it is sending an emergency cash grant of $30,000 to Uruguay to aid victims of flooding, the worst the country has seen in half a century. More >>
A proposed investment company with an environmental conscience has been judged the winner of the 2007 Global Enterprise Experience, a business-concept competition based at Victoria University that unites 650 students from 34 countries. More >>
On Tuesday May 8, U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone dismissed perjury charges against Luis Posada Carriles. Posada is a Cuban-born terrorist and long-time CIA agent who boasted of helping to detonate deadly bombs in Havana hotels 10 years ago, ... More >>
Secretary Condoleezza Rice Testimony Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations Washington, DC May 10, 2007 More >>
Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Remarks at the Europe Forum Program Berlin, Germany May 9, 2007 More >>
QUESTION: Nick, in terms of Iran; what would be in a third UN Security Council resolution in June if Iran does not follow through and accept negotiations? UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: Well, first of all, we hope that Iran will accept negotiations. Because that ... More >>
UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: Well, I think it is very clear that Iran is isolated internationally. Iran is a country with which we want to negotiate and we -- Europe, United Sates, China, Russia -- are offering negotiations. More >>
In the wake of renewed government aerial bombardments in North Darfur, reported yesterday by United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Africa Action today stressed that civilians in Darfur remain acutely vulnerable to violent attacks in this ongoing ... More >>
An engraved fire-fighting axe and commemorative plaque was handed to trade Minister Phil Goff in Washington today by Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns. More >>
Wolfowitz Affair: The 24-nation Board of Directors of the World Bank has given Paul Wolfowitz more time to respond to a special panel report, which found him guilty of a conflict of interest in arranging for a pay raise and promotion for his girlfriend, ... More >>
While the White House is still publicly supporting Paul Wolfowitz’ leadership at the World Bank, observers are speculating on possible successors for the bank top post. The selection process of the head of the Bretton Woods institutions, both the ... More >>
Attorney-General Michael Cullen said today Crown Law would carefully consider the judgment of the Privy Council as to what action would be taken. More >>
Expressing deep concern about reports of a series of deadly aerial bombardments across North Darfur state during the past three weeks, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the Sudanese Government to halt all attacks and comply with the peace agreements ... More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today named Konrad Osterwalder, a Swiss physicist, as the new Rector of the United Nations University UNU , which serves as the world body’s think tank. More >>
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today overturned a former Bosnian Serb army commander’s conviction for complicity to commit genocide against Muslims at Srebrenica in July 1995, but upheld other convictions for his ... More >>
The United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF has provided educational kits to jump start the educations of 60,000 school pupils in six flood-ravaged provinces of Zambia. More >>
In a bid to spur action on Middle East peace, a United Nations Committee is slated to open its African Meeting on the Question of Palestine today in Pretoria, with support from the South African Government. More >>
Two intrepid young Britons have won an Arctic sprint to the magnetic North Pole which they say should boost their chances of raising $495,000 for the United Nations refugee agency. More >>
Three and half years after a massive earthquake killed more than 26,000 people in the ancient city of Bam, Iran, a regional centre to reduce the damage from such seismic threats was launched in the country today by the Government and the United Nations ... More >>
95bFM Audio: Paul Deady and Scoop's Selwyn Manning background the Timor Leste presidential elections and what this all means for Timor's people, New Zealand, Australia and the region. More >>
UN-Backed Court In Sierra Leone Unveils Start Date For Trial Of Former Liberian Leader More >>
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced today that it will receive $5 million from Pakistan to help Afghan refugees return to their homeland. More >>
The United Nations World Food Programme WFP today announced that it has distributed aid to 16,000 people in the most ravaged districts of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, which has suffered the worst fighting seen there in 16 years. More >>
The senior United Nations envoy to Afghanistan today mourned the death of a murdered staff member, vowing to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice. More >>
Energy indicators for sustainable development represent an important component in national planning, says a new report analyzing results in seven countries that was issued today by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations ... More >>
New Zealand’s next Ambassador to Japan will be career diplomat Ian Kennedy, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced today. Mr Kennedy has had two previous posting to Japan, and has written a book on Japanese/New Zealand relations for the Institute ... More >>
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Timor-Leste said that today’s presidential run-off election in the small island country which gained independence from Indonesia in 2002 proceeded smoothly and peacefully. More >>
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for a peaceful and negotiated two-state solution as the UN Committee opened the UN African Meeting on the Question of Palestine today in Pretoria with the South African Government’s support. More >>
First, in its rush to devalue Democrats, both domestic and foreign, The Washington Post has awarded international status to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, proclaiming him possibly “the most popular democratic leader in the world”. ("Assault on ... More >>
Names like Haditha, Fallujah, Samarra, and Abu Ghraib are likely destined to become, at least in the Muslim world, iconic symbols for America's bloody adventure in Iraq. This will not so much represent the deliberate selecting of horrors to remember and ... More >>
Five new experts from three continents have joined the 13-member independent body monitoring the implementation of United Nations drug control conventions, which began its latest session today in Vienna. More >>
DEPARTMENT/IRAN Mrs. Levinson's Meetings at the State Department US Efforts Regarding the Welfare and Whereabouts of Mr. Levinson Iranian-Americans Detained in Iran / State Department in Touch with Families / Motivations of Iranian Regime / Department ... More >>
Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Washington, DC May 4, 2007 More >>
Thank you very much. I'd like to thank you, Jim, for that wonderful introduction. And thank you also Phil -- Phil Cassidy for inviting me here. It's great to be here. I see many friends in the audience and I look forward to having a chance to have ... More >>
QUESTION: Mr. Negroponte. Your visit to Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Panama has to do with the Free Trade Agreement. Do you have a message about that, now that things are getting kind of difficult in Congress? More >>
QUESTION: First of all we'd like to know, is the free trade agreement with Colombia ever going to be a reality? DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE: Well, we certainly hope so. We think it's very important. We think that it's even a strategic agreement which ... More >>
New Zealand agricultural trainees are desperately being sought for international AgriVenture programmes in the United Kingdom. The UK AgriVenture office currently has a large number of host families crying out for trainees from June and July. More >>
The Government’s announcement of a $7 million investment to attract visitors from China will be wasted if the money is not targeted well, says National’s Tourism spokesman, Lindsay Tisch. More >>
Research demonstrates that people are ready for public officials to undertake aggressive efforts to make America energy independent and combat global warming. Based on that research, Al Quinlan, Stan Greenberg, and the Center for American Progress's John ... More >>
Oxfam New Zealand have called on the government to increase its development assistance levels for the forth-coming budget, following the release of several reports showing that New Zealand is still giving some of the lowest levels of aid per capita. More >>
Thank you for having me along to your event this evening. I understand it has been a busy day with many new products on show. I am encouraged by the quality of our tourism offerings across all regions of New Zealand, and congratulate each RTO here ... More >>
Tourism Minister Damien O’Connor has announced significant funding for Tourism New Zealand to manage and increase marketing activities in China, and for improvements to the administration of the China Approved Destination Status (ADS). More >>
Friday is a day of action against the resumption of military ties with Indonesia. The New Zealand Government will resume military ties with the Indonesian Government this month. An Indonesian officer will attend the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) ... More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed news of the formation of a new power-sharing government in Northern Ireland involving politicians from the British province’s Protestant and Roman Catholic communities. More >>
The United Nations has suspended its operations and closed its offices in the Tehsil Bagh area of Pakistan for two weeks amid mounting concerns at a series of recent attacks against humanitarian workers operating in the region. More >>
"The Budget, as brought down by the Treasurer Peter Costello tonight, shows that the Howard government "only believes in recycling" when it comes to Climate Change strategies, and that is, that Costello recycles used previous election ... More >>
The PNG Eco-Forestry Forum is concerned about the security of court files at the National and Supreme Court Registries in Waigani. More >>
The causes and nature of malnutrition are the focus of a free e-learning course launched today by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) with the aim of improving the collection, analysis and dissemination of food security information. More >>
The Indonesia Human Rights Committee will demonstrate outside the Army’s Auckland Regional Support Centre 204-234 Great North Rd, at 12 noon on Friday May 11. An Indonesian officer is scheduled to begin his training at the New Zealand Defence Force Staff ... More >>
Prime Minister Helen Clark today described the restoration of a power-sharing government in Northern Ireland, after more than four years in suspension, as a hugely significant event for the Northern Ireland peace process. More >>
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has warned critics against making uninformed criticisms on issues including the Julian Moti saga as they can be sued for defamation. More >>
Our mums have always been there for us and are quick to pass along sage advice like ‘eat your greens’, ‘wash behind your ears’, and ‘get a good education’. This Mother's Day you can show mum that you took her words to heart by passing on ... More >>
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says the gap between the average after-tax incomes of working Australians and New Zealanders is set to widen further after Michael Cullen delivers his Budget later this month. More >>
Carol Beaumont, Secretary for the CTU; Lucy and AJ from Oxfam on Campus; Dr Mark Goodwin, NZ Bee Research Unit; Counterclockwise with Selwyn Manning; Prof. David Bordwell More >>
Climate change is no longer a matter for scientific debate, but has become a question to be solved at the international political level, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s three new Special Envoys on the issue said today, pledging to use their experience ... More >>
Voicing concern over increased friction between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which have hit a stalemate in efforts to resolve their border dispute, the United Nations Security Council today called on both Horn of Africa countries to refrain from violence. More >>
Some 200 media professionals from around the world have adopted a declaration laying the ground for a wide range of measures to improve the safety of journalists and punish crimes against them at a meeting convened by the United Nations Educational, ... More >>
Dili, Timor-Leste –The distribution of polling material across Timor Leste’s 13 districts continues today with the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor Leste (UNMIT) providing logistical support to the national authorities charged with ... More >>
Dili: The United Nations Mission in Timor Leste (UNMIT) is confident that the second round for the presidential election to be held tomorrow will be peaceful. More >>
The Secretary-General -- Message On The Eve Of The Second Round Of Presidential Elections In Timor-Leste 9 May 2007 More >>
I know there is truth in poet Robert Frost's famous line in "Mending Wall" (quoting the man living next door) that "good fences make good neighbors." But, in a political context, I can't help but also believe that the creation of barriers between human ... More >>
In late August 2001, when aggressive presidential action might have changed the course of US history, CIA Director George Tenet made a special trip to Crawford, Texas, to get George W. Bush to focus on an imminent threat of a spectacular al-Qaeda attack ... More >>
DEPARTMENT Retirement of Director General George Staples / Transformational Diplomacy Under Secretary Burns Travel to Berlin / G-8 Conference More >>
QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thank you for this opportunity. Let's start with the headline. How do you read the Sarkozy election in Paris and do you anticipate that this will help your efforts in Iraq in Lebanon with -- vis-à-vis the tribunal and ... More >>
United Nations Member States are asked to share information more widely, run Interpol fingerprints through their own police databases, and pursue other measures to strengthen strictures on the Taliban and Al-Qaida in a report released today by the Security ... More >>
Audio: Scoop's Selwyn Manning & Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey discuss: how Australian company Ironbridge has moved to take over Canwest NZ. Also, how good health reporting unearthed a tale of a decomposing corpse in hospital morgue! More >>
A long-hunted Haitian gang leader accused of assassinations, kidnappings and extortion was arrested today in a joint operation by Haitian National Police and United Nations peacekeepers in Cité Soleil, the notorious slum area in the capital, Port-au-Prince. More >>
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS ) and its main partner in Haiti have agreed to cooperate on fighting the epidemic in the country’s workplaces, a UN spokesperson announced today. More >>
A New York Times editorial on May 7th is titled "The Soft Bigotry of Iraq," and begins: "Whether out of blind loyalty or blind denial, most Congressional Republicans are prepared to back up President Bush's veto of the Iraq spending bill." More >>
DEPARTMENT Secretary Rice Trip To Moscow May 14-15 / Iran / Kosovo / Israel / Missile Defense U.S. Efforts to Combat Terrorism More >>
On the eve of the second round of presidential elections in Timor-Leste, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the small country is shoring up security measures with the expectation that the polls will be peaceful. More >>
Missile Defense Plans for Europe Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Press Roundtable at the U.S. State Department Washington, DC May 4, 2007 More >>
SECRETARY RICE: Good morning. Thank you for traveling so far. I'm very pleased to be here to welcome you and we're really honored to have so many heads of state and senior officials from the Pacific present with us today. I would like to first thank ... More >>
New Zealand is to contribute $2 million to the United Nations Development Programme in Papua, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced after meeting his Indonesian counterpart Hassan Wirajuda in Jakarta today. More >>
As the demand for biofuels surges with over one billion people living without access to electricity, a new United Nations report released today cautions that the world’s energy needs must be met in a sustainable and environmentally sound manner. More >>
European governments are offering the White House a compromise over the Wolfowitz affair. After a meeting in Brussels, European finance ministers have decided not to challenge the prerogative of the President of the United States to nominate the ... More >>
New Zealand is to contribute $2 million to the United Nations Development Programme in Papua, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced after meeting his Indonesian counterpart Hassan Wirajuda in Jakarta today. More >>
New Zealand Defence Force personnel will be patrolling the streets of Dili tomorrow as the local population heads to the polls to appoint a new President for Timor Leste. More >>
On Tuesday, May 8, two outspoken Israelis will debate over the solution to end the Israel-Palestinian impasse. This public debate: "Two States or One State?" will be between former KM Uri Avnery and Dr. Ilan Pappe. More >>
Port Moresby, Monday May 7, 2007: Greenpeace activists today abseiled from the top of the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Port Moresby, where delegates were gathering for the start of the 42nd International Tropical Timber Organization’s (ITTO) committee ... More >>
"The Immigration policy where Australia would send a number of its "unwashed and unwanted" asylum seekers seeking legitimate protection in Australia to the USA, in return for receiving Haitians and Cubans from the USA is already coming back ... More >>
G8 Labour Summit: Social rules on investment and trade, and effective regulation of private equity and hedge funds needed More >>
Just back from the official launch of the International Compact on Iraq, a five-year plan for peace and development, the top United Nations envoy on the issue today said he will travel to Riyadh to discuss aid to the war-torn country with Saudi officials. More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was ‘saddened’ to learn of the deaths of nine members of the independent peacekeeping force in the Sinai, a United Nations spokesperson said today. More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the latest agreement between Chad and Sudan aimed at calming tensions in the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur and the eastern area of the neighbouring country. More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced deep concern over yesterday’s violent clash outside a school in the Gaza Strip operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East UNRWA in which one person was ... More >>
A 17-truck convoy carrying over 600 refugees, including a newborn baby, completed a three-day journey to southern Sudan, marking the end of the United Nations refugee agency’s repatriation programme from Ethiopian camps before the rainy season begins. More >>
Reporting that some 44,000 people have been returned to Afghanistan from Iran as illegal immigrants since 21 April, the United Nations Assistance Mission in the country (UNAMA) today called on the Governments of the two countries concerned to make sure ... More >>
Staff members of the main United Nations agency caring for Palestinian refugees have raised $125,000 to aid anguished families in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, where a six-day Israeli siege in November 2006 took the lives of 82 Palestinians ... More >>
Amid growing global concern about climate change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged experts meeting in Geneva to address the need for warning systems to mitigate the damage from extreme weather. More >>
South Africa has made great efforts to redress housing inequality but desperate living conditions persist, according to a United Nations human rights expert who today called on the country’s Government to boost social services and take other measures to ... More >>
The world is lagging seriously in its efforts to slash the number of people who lack access to decent sanitation, leaving too many people deprived of basic dignity, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling for concrete measures from United Nations Member ... More >>
The highest murder and assault rates in the world are undermining economic growth in the Caribbean region, according to a report published today by the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC which blames the illicit drug ... More >>
The senior United Nations envoy to Liberia today opened the first of a series of six workshops aimed at strengthening the skills of immigration officers posted throughout the country, as part of efforts to improve controls in a region renowned for having ... More >>
Launching a five-year peace and development plan for Iraq today, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the international community to assist the violence-plagued country to follow through on commitments for progress in security, unity, resource sharing ... More >>
In a new report made public today, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his concern for the stalemate in the dialogue between Ethiopia and Eritrea, calling for a comprehensive implementation of the Algiers Agreements in 2000 which ended the bloody war between ... More >>
The United Nations World Health Organization WHO and the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF today jointly called for greater funding and use of vaccine vial monitors, simple tools which warn if dosages have been damaged by heat, on the tenth anniversary of ... More >>
Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian and Serbian communities continue to lead largely separate existences and have very different outlooks on the future, which means creating an integrated, multi-ethnic society in the province will require “substantial effort,” ... More >>
Less than a week after the Security Council lifted its sanctions on the export of “blood diamonds” from Liberia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission to the West African country today handed over a regional diamond certification office to ... More >>
Representatives of United Nations Member States today urged the world body to keep using a wide array of media and languages to deliver its message of peace, development and rights to the peoples of the world, as the UN Committee on Information continued ... More >>
Australian farming families from drought-affected areas have started to take advantage of free accommodation provided by Federated Farmers’ members and 100 free flights across the Tasman gifted by Jetstar Airlines. More >>
Trade and Defence Minister Phil Goff leaves tonight for an eleven day visit to Washington DC, London and Paris for a series of trade and defence meetings. "I will visit Washington DC from 9-11 May where I will meet with, among others, the US Trade Representative ... More >>
Video: "United States is deeply concerned about the unlawful overthrow of the freely-elected government in Fiji. We are very pleased that Pacific countries have spoken with one voice through the Pacific Islands Forum." More >>
Almost five years and perhaps half a million deaths too late, it's finally the accepted wisdom in Washington that the intelligence that George W. Bush used to justify invading Iraq was garbage. But the pattern of twisting the truth about Iraq continues unabated ... More >>
• On the right, one of the most controversial leaders in Latin America presides over a collapsing anti-drug war • Non-extradition pledge guarantees there will be more crime and no punishment • Free trade more important to Washington than ... More >>
The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest US military site in Europe, but the people of Vicenza, and all of Italy, have sworn it will never happen. More >>
The improvement of the livelihoods of coastal communities and the sustainability of the fishery resources on which they depend require increased attention, strong commitment and collective efforts, according to Ichiro Nomura, Assistant Director-General, ... More >>
SECRETARY RICE: Good afternoon. We've just completed a very successful meeting of Iraq's neighbors in an expanded format with the Group of Eight, the G-8, and the Permanent Five members of the Security Council of the United Nations. There were ... More >>
ZIMBABWE Possibility of Seat on UN Council for Sustainable Development / U.S. View Proposal of Amnesty for President Mugabe More >>
Chairman Wexler, Chairman Sherman, Ranking Member Gallegly, Ranking Member Royce, members of the Sub-Committees, thank you for giving me the opportunity to appear before you again. It is always a pleasure to be here. Today, I will speak about our ... More >>
Dear Mr. Reid and Mrs. Pelosi, The undersigned organizations write to urge you in the strongest possible terms to respond to President Bush's veto of the supplemental appropriations bill with a stronger bill, not a weaker one. More >>
Remarks from the Intervention at the Iraq Neighbors Conference Secretary Condoleezza Rice Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt May 4, 2007 More >>
Barry F. Lowenkron, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Written Submission for the Record to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight Washington, DC May 1, 2007 More >>
World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, a former Bush’s Deputy Secretary of Defense, has been found guilty of a conflict of interest in arranging for a pay raise and promotion for Shaha Ali Riza, his girlfriend and a bank employee, in 2005. More >>
On Wednesday, May 9, the Solidarity Observer Mission for East Timor (SOMET) will dispatch nearly two dozen nonpartisan observers to polling stations throughout Timor-Leste to monitor the presidential run-off election. More >>
Monaco/Gland, Switzerland: WWF and Canon Europe launched today a "Save the Polar Bear" website as an educational tool to teach children about the environmental impacts of climate change. More >>
(Sydney, Australia – 7 May 2007)—The Australian Government can stop Japan killing any more whales in the Southern Ocean by taking legal action, according to an independent panel of Australia’s leading international law experts, commissioned by IFAW. More >>
This afternoon, Sunday May 6, Palestinians in Al Hadidiya received three threats. First, an officer from the nearby settlement of Ro'i entered the village. According to Fathy, a resident of the area, the settler threatened the Palestinians and said ... More >>
Today, Palestinians and two international human rights workers (HRWs) were attacked by Israeli settlers in the Tel Rumeida district of Hebron. More >>
Inquest Into Deaths Of 'Balibo Five' Points To High-Level Cover-Up, Former Australian Pm To Be Summoned More >>
Being Prime Minister has been a "privilege" Mr Blair said on the tenth anniversary of the General Election which brought him into office. More >>
The bulk of the Prime Minister's post-cabinet press conference today dealt with the scourge of gangs and violence in the community. The PM also took the time to plug her UK counterpart Tony Blair for his staunch championing of NZ's interests in the ... More >>
95bFM Audio: Jose Barbosa speaks to Former US security adviser Paul Buchanan talks about Fidel Castro and Cuba's likely future, looks at the securitisation of international relations and has a stern warning for where that might take us. More >>
95bFM Audio: Mikey Havoc speaks to Renee Mundy Live from London to discuss the just wrapped up French elections, the just wrapped up Scottish local body elections, and the soon to be wrapped up Tony Blair. More >>
An independent United Nations human rights expert has voiced concern about press freedom in Azerbaijan while reporting that his recent meetings there offered hope that court decisions which have caused a prevailing sense of fear among journalists ... More >>
The Dalai Lama Visit Trust New Zealand is pleased to announce that His Holiness the Dalai Lama will meet the Mayor(s) of Auckland and invited guests at a private function to welcome His Holiness, the 1989 Nobel Laureate, to the city on June 17th 2007. More >>
A New Zealand Special Service Medal Tsunami is to be presented in Feilding for services following the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Indonesia. Ministry of Civil Defence Emergency Management Director John Hamilton will present the medal to Shane Bayley, 10am Wednesday, ... More >>
Working together to help those who can’t always help themselves has long been the ethos behind much of the work of New Zealand Red Cross, and that will be emphasised tomorrow, 8 May, on World Red Cross Red Crescent Day. More >>
The low ratings for New Zealanders’ ability in Asian languages and cultural sensitivity are areas of concern if this country wants to increase its business engagement with the Asian region, says a new Asia New Zealand Foundation report. More >>
Effectively managing the health and wellbeing of all ADF members remains a top priority for Defence’s senior leaders, Minister for Veterans Affairs and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence Bruce Billson said today. More >>
Enhancing a growing relationship will be the prime focus when Foreign Minister Winston Peters and his Indonesian counterpart Hassan Wirajuda meet for the first New Zealand-Indonesia Joint Ministerial Commission in Jakarta tomorrow. More >>
Brussels, 2 May 2007 (ITUC OnLine): Once again, annual May Day celebrations in several countries have been met with repression and intimidation by the authorities. Rallies for workers’ rights in Iran, Turkey and Macao were subjected to violent reactions ... More >>
As some areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recover from devastating civil war, the United Nations refugee agency has started to assist the return of Congolese who fled to Zambia, with the first group of 400 starting the long trek ... More >>
Come along and learn more about Peace Action Wellington's NZ Troops Out Now Campaign and how you can get involved, while also enjoying a community dinner. The New Zealand military is currently engaged in 18 different military missions around the world, ... More >>
Audio: Scoop's Selwyn Manning and KiwiFM's Wallace Chapman discuss government's Births Deaths Register Bill does not now have the numbers to pass; How US/NZ relations are getting cosier; Loan Shark Report update; and French voted vote right. More >>
Scoop Link: The International Herald Tribune reports Nicolas Sarkozy, an immigrant's son who had the French presidency in his sights for three decades, won a decisive victory in the election Sunday, keeping the right in power for the next five years. More >>
The United Nations food relief agency today welcomed a €30 million donation from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), to help feed over 2 million people in the violence-torn Darfur region of Sudan. More >>
As the damage from climate change grows increasingly apparent, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has praised a new centre in China working to address the environmental impact of large cities. More >>
Expressions of regional and international support for Iraq must be translated into sustained and concrete actions or the violence-wracked country may never know any peace, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told foreign ministers taking part in the international ... More >>
In a video message to the 101st annual dinner of the American Jewish Committee in Washington, D.C., yesterday evening, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon restated his top priorities, among them geopolitical issues, “in particular the ... More >>
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has emphasized the value of collaboration among developing countries while calling for greater efforts to manage the process. More >>
Representatives of United Nations Member States today urged the world body to keep using a wide array of media and languages to deliver its message of peace, development and rights to the peoples of the world, as the UN Committee on Information continued ... More >>
There is some risk to your security in Fiji and we advise caution. Following the 5 December 2006 military coup d’état the security situation in Fiji remains uncertain and there are indications of a deterioration in respect for the rule of law. More >>
An address by Ambassador William P. McCormick before the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Wellington. More >>
Progress is being made in disarmament efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the notorious leader of one of the Central African country’s largest militias announced that 500 more of his fighters will surrender their weapons this week, the ... More >>
Today's consultations with the European Union Presidency demonstrated the very high degree of like-mindedness between the EU and New Zealand, according to Foreign Winston Peters. More >>
The Amnesty International nation-wide tour, featuring a Chinese 'Lion Declaration', continues its launch of the 'Human Rights Reform in China' global campaign to halt appalling human rights violations occurring on a massive scale in China. Recent events ... More >>
No plan to resolve the Cyprus problem will be successful in the long run unless it is a local one in which every person in both communities feels their voice has been heard and they understand the ramifications of what is proposed, the head of the ... More >>
The situation in Sri Lanka worsening day by day. It is the innocent civilians; mostly the Tamils living in the North & East, who are severely affected. the statistics paint a totally different picture of the reality. over 65,000 civilians, mostly Tamils, ... More >>
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has cautioned Opposition Leader Fred Fono to learn from the experience of all his follies in using megaphone politics to attack and unseat the Grand Coalition for Change government during the past year. More >>
Since mistakes made in health care affect one out of every 10 patients in the world, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a new programme called “Nine patient safety solutions” to reduce the harm done to people during ... More >>
· Venezuela builds up its weapon stock and deepens its ties to “pariah” nations · · Chavez’s very active regime policy intriguing some because it may be viewed as too presumptive · · Chavez plays his high-risk game with extraordinary skill ... More >>
Shist Amani, Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Sacked and Unemployed Workers seen here reading the 1st May resolution. He was arrested shortly after. More >>
Taloha ni, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Ni sa bula vinaka, Namaste, Kia orana koutou katoatoa, Ia Orana, Gud de tru olgeta, Talofa, Kia ora tatau and Warm Pacific Greetings to you all this morning. More >>
DEPARTMENT Deputy Secretary Negroponte's Travel to Latin America / Trade, Energy, Regional Cooperation on Agenda Training and Mental Health Support for Employees Serving in Difficult Posts / U.S. Mindful of Stresses of Job More >>
Foreign Minister Winston Peters held constructive and wide-ranging talks with his Italian counterpart Massimo D’Alema in Rome on Wednesday (overnight NZT). More >>
Local Solar Power expert and Director of Willies Electric, David Iro praises the present government for working in partnership with rural people in the country to promote solar energy in rural areas. More >>
The government has announced a $125,000 financial assistance to the Sunrise Solar and Electrical Skills Training Center in Lata, Temotu province. More >>
The Pacific Islands Forum Taskforce to review the Regional Assistance Mission in Solomon Islands (RAMSI) today completed six days of consultations with stakeholders in what is the first phase of a two-phase process. More >>
Graduates of a United Nations skills training programme in Liberia, where the world body is working to help consolidate stability as the country recovers from conflict, should use their training to become more self-reliant, the senior UN military official ... More >>
Welcoming the willingness of former rival parties to fully implement the peace deal in Côte d’Ivoire, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the West African country participated in a ceremony marking the official integration of former rebels ... More >>
Twelve United Nations experts united to voice their deep concern today about the recent violence in the Somali capital Mogadishu, where hundreds of people have been killed in the latest clashes and hundreds of thousands forced to flee in recent months. More >>
The first woman Prime Minister of Norway, the former President of Chile, and the President of the 56th Session of the United Nations General Assembly were today named Special Envoys for Climate Change by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has made ... More >>
Economic Development Minister Trevor Mallard leaves for Japan and the United States tomorrow on visits aimed at forging better business connections and a higher profile for New Zealand and New Zealand firms. More >>
The Physics Room is pleased to announce the arrival of 2007’s first Artist in Residence, Auckland-based artist Shigeyuki Kihara. Shigeyuki Kihara works with photographic self-portraits to explore themes of identity, ethnography, sexuality and artistic ... More >>
The Israeli media at the moment can be described as wall to wall coverage of the Winograd Commission. The quality media elsewhere has also done a reasonable job in detailing the contents and reaction. What is missing, however, is the small boy saying ... More >>
Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you about U.S. policy toward China. China's rise as a global economic power is one of the major events of our time. And with China's economic strength has come increased ... More >>
To better serve the urgent needs of the 2 million Iraqis who have fled their home regions to other areas of the violence-torn country, the United Nations refugee agency has decided to again station international officials in Baghdad, UN High Commissioner ... More >>
Delegates attending the United Nations Committee on Information meeting in New York today called for new measures to make the world body’s website more thoroughly multilingual. More >>
Will an effective system of global governance emerge in the foreseeable future, or will it continue to be seen as utopian science fiction in an increasingly dystopic world? The answer does not depend on nation-states and the UN, but on the growing ... More >>
Relations between Cuba and the former Soviet Union amplified during the early 1960s, reaching their culminations in October of 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which put the world at the brink of a nuclear conflict between Washington and Moscow. Some ... More >>
World Vision is adding its support to Fair trade fortnight (April 28-May 13), calling on New Zealanders to buy products that ensure producers are getting a fair price for their work. More >>
A Work Plan for the 2010 Review Cycle: Coping with Challenges Facing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty More >>
On-the-Record Briefing With U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker Via Digital Video Conference More >>
MIDDLE EAST Informal Meeting Between Members of Quartet and Arab Delegation Briefing on Arab Initiative to Hear from Arab League Representatives Arab Initiative Can Be a Possible Starting Point for Diplomacy U.S. Position on Lebanon Not in Question ... More >>
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