UN: Uneven Progress on Tackling Issues
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Wealthy countries are falling billions of dollars short of their promises to help fund reproductive health care and improvements in the status of women around the world, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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World leaders gathering at the United Nations confront a depressing global agenda dominated by new terrorist threats, a humanitarian disaster in Sudan, turmoil in Iraq, and a growing gap between the richest and poorest inhabitants of planet Earth.
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The world is meeting targets on improving access to clean drinking water, but falling behind on sanitation goals fixed at a summit four years ago, the United Nations said Thursday.
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This year&#39;s meeting on the UN Climate Change Convention is deadlocked over a proposal to start informal discussions over the next year about the future of the climate-change regime.
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A panel set up last year by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is looking to make changes that will help combat new security threats in the world and add strength to the United Nations.
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations lags behind other international regional groupings in addressing human rights issues, Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda has said.
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Governments are making scant progress toward extending a U.N. pact to fight global warming despite mounting public concern about climate change and U.N. warnings it poses a threat as great as war, experts say.
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A U.N. peacekeeping mission  seeking to restore order in impoverished, unstable, Haiti has  been hampered by a shortage of promised international troops  and police, a U.N. official said on Thursday.
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The United Nations says it is concerned by Sudan&#39;s lack of progress in bringing security to Darfur, where more than a million people have fled their homes for fear of militia attack.
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Science & environment: UN conference calls for large and rapidly developing countries to do more to tackle global warming.
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Global efforts to avoid tens of millions of preventable deaths by reducing tobacco use have been slow to take hold, and no country has fully adopted the World Health Organization's recommendations, WHO said on Thursday.
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Handicapping the race to lead the U.N.
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With governments at a global warming summit divided, the United Nations released an alarming new report.
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Some of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are using their clout to raise issues that do not belong in the decision-making body, South Africa's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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The Hague Tribunal is under pressure. As a body established by the UN, it is bound by the UN's decisions.
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A high-level panel appointed last year by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged on Tuesday the adoption of new, far-reaching ground rules to help the world face new and
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept 19: As the UN General Assembly began its 59th session, calls for the reform and expansion of the UN Security Council have gained new momentum with more nations staking