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Over 2,000 registered stateless persons reside in Moldova
January 19, 2012Chisinau/ Moldova.ORG/ -- The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is pleased with Moldova’s steps towards accession to the two UN Conventions on Statelessness and the preparation of legislation on statelessness determination, informs the official website...
UN urges more funds for early HIV treatment
June 05, 2011The UN Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) has called for increased funding for the early treatment of people with HIV. The head of the agency, Michael Sidibe, said a new study showed it could reduce the risk of HIV transmission by 96%. He said the challenge...
In new book, whistle-blower alleges U.S., UN involvement in Bosnian sex trafficking
February 12, 2011In 1998, divorced and with her three children grown, Kathryn Bolkovac, a police officer in the western U.S. state of Nebraska, was looking for a change. So she applied to join the UN's International Police Task Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The IPTF,...
UN urges France to stop collective deportation of Roma
August 30, 2010A UN Watchdog Group is urging France to stop the collective deportation of Roma, also known as Gypsies. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination calls collective expulsions a violation under international law. The Committee monitors...
Central Asia: UN's ban calls Aral Sea 'shocking disaster'
April 05, 2010UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on a tour of Central Asia, says the depletion of the Aral Sea is one of the planet's most shocking disasters. He is calling on Central Asian leaders to step up cooperation in solving the environmental problems associated...
This night Europe will sleep less by one hour
March 27, 2010According to the proposal of the UN Economic Commission for Europe together with European Union member states, the last Sunday of March, a number of countries will switch to daylight saving time. Thus, at 02.00 a.m. people in Europe, including in...
International community pledges support for Chile following quake
February 27, 2010The international community is offering support to Chile in the wake of Saturday's devastating earthquake. The European Union pledged $4 million in immediate aid to the South American nation. EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso described the...
Over 30 cases of torture sent to Moldovan courts
December 01, 2009"The Prosecutor General's Office presently has to consider more than 115 complaints of torture following the 6-7 April riots. Over 30 cases were submitted to law courts," a lawyer from the Institute for Human Rights, Ion Guzun, said. "...
U.N. Committee against Torture to talk about Moldova
November 03, 2009The United Nations Committee Against Torture has opened its 43rd session in Geneva. During the opening, Secretary-General Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights and Treaty Branch of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
All countries will need vaccine for ‘unstoppable’ A(H1N1) virus
July 14, 2009The highest body of experts advising the United Nations health agency on immunizations has determined that all countries will need to have vaccines for the influenza A(H1N1) infection, noting that the spread of the pandemic is “unstoppable.&rdquo...