Kris Allen (who won last year's American Idol competition) and UN Foundation CEO Kathy Calvin travelled to Haiti last week. The trip is part of the television show's forthcoming episode dedicated to Haiti, which will air on Thursday and help raise funds UN relief efforts.
The IAEA published a report today that expresses concern that Iran may be using its civilian nuclear program to cover up a nuclear weapons program.
Issues surrounding the exploitation of Haiti's orphans are increasingly coming to light in the wake of the January 12 earthquake. Fortunately, we have UNICEF on the ground. The organization is setting up a way of systematically identifying and caring for Haiti's unaccompanied children. Here is UNICEF in its own words.
UN peacekeepers in Darfur received their first five military helicopters on Tuesday after a 2-year wait. Neighboring Ethiopia supplied the tactical aircraft.
The UN Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) just released the latest update on the flash funding appeal for Haiti. If you'll recall, one week after the earthquake the UN launched and emergency flash appeal for $577 million. Just about one month later, the appeal is nearly fully funded--it is only 4%, or $25 million, short.
Of the panoply of disputes around the world today, perhaps none is more petty than the conflict over the name of a certain country that sits to the north of Greece, west of Bulgaria, south of Kosovo and Serbia, and east of Albania. If you ask the UN, NATO or the International Olympic Committee, the name of that country is the "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia -- FYROM." If you ask most of the inhabitants of this country, they would be happy to just go by "Republic of Macedonia." The problem is, the Greeks object. "Macedonia," you see, is the name of a Greek province t
Ban Ki Moon called for a restoration of the "Olympic Truce" in which warring parties lay down their arms for the duration of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Here's what he said:
As the XXI Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver draw near, the United Nations and the Olympic Movement are once again calling for a worldwide cessation of hostilities for the duration of the Games.