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RNZAF C-130 Hercules Helps In Wake Of “Tomas”

19 March 2010 2:54pm | New Zealand Defence Force

New Zealand Defence Force Te Ope Kaatua O Aotearoa Media Release Friday 19 March 2010 More >>

Tax transparency: Country-by-country reviews

19 March 2010 12:06pm | OECD

The international fight against cross-border tax evasion has entered a new phase with the launch by countries participating in the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information of a peer review process covering a first group of 15 jurisdictions: ... More >>

Governments fail to protect bluefin tuna

19 March 2010 12:04pm | Greenpeace

Doha, Qatar - March 18 2010, Greenpeace condemns the failure of governments meeting for at the CITES (Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species), to agree any measures to protect endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna. More >>

Shocking situation of Guarani tribe in Brazil

19 March 2010 12:02pm | Survival International

The situation of the Guarani tribe of southern Brazil is one of the worst of all indigenous peoples in the Americas, says a new report by Survival International to the UN. More >>

Film about salt fields of India’s Kutch

19 March 2010 12:00pm | Rajan Zed

A short experimental film about the salt fields of Central Kutch in India has made into the competitive category in internationally renowned 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival of USA being held March 23-28, according to reports. More >>

Chief of Defence Force Visits East Timor

19 March 2010 11:57am | Australian Defence Force

The Chief of the Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, arrived in Dili this afternoon for a two day visit to East Timor. More >>

Sudan: kidnapped staff member is free

19 March 2010 11:53am | International Committee of the Red Cross

Geneva/Khartoum (ICRC) – Gauthier Lefèvre, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) staff member abducted in West Darfur on 22 October 2009, is free. More >>

Daily Press Briefing - March 18

19 March 2010 11:45am | US State Department

I’d first like to note that the United States and Pakistan will hold their first strategic dialogue at the ministerial level in Washington, D.C. on March the 24th. Secretary Clinton and Foreign Minister Qureshi will co-chair the talks. Topics for ... More >>

Remarks With Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov

19 March 2010 11:43am | US State Department

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, Sergey. Thank you for hosting me and my delegation today in Moscow and thanks to the Russian Government for hosting the Quartet meeting that we will be attending. More >>

G8/G20 People’s Summit in Toronto

19 March 2010 11:41am | Canadians.org

Three months from today the 2010 People’s Summit will begin in Toronto , and is inviting people from across Canada and around the world to come to Toronto to challenge the policies of the G8 and G20 this June. More >>

The Future of Inter-American Relations

19 March 2010 11:38am | Council on Hemispheric Affairs

“[It is] important to keep before ourselves and the Latin American peoples at all times the reality of the thesis that we are a great power; that we are by and large much less in need of them than they are in need of us; that we are entirely prepared ... More >>

Delay of the President’s Asia Trip

19 March 2010 11:15am | The White House

The President is pleased that the House has posted the health care legislation on the Internet and that a final vote is coming. More >>

IDB Project: Massive Displacement in Latin America

19 March 2010 11:14am | Americas Program

Failure to enforce its own policies, lack of consultation with affected parties and insistence on megaprojects have had devastating consequences on the very citizens the Bank claims to help. More >>

Helping Poor States Meet Development Goals

19 March 2010 11:11am | United Nations

The second-ranking official at the United Nations today called on richer countries to implement their commitments on providing finance for development to help poorer nations reach the social and economic targets known as the Millennium Development ... More >>

UN Continues To Help Ugandan Landslide Victims

19 March 2010 11:10am | United Nations

The United Nations is continuing to assist people in eastern Uganda affected by deadly landslides, which have killed at least 94 people since they occurred earlier this month. More >>

Madagascar: UN Assists Relief Efforts

19 March 2010 11:08am | United Nations

United Nations aid workers in eastern Madagascar are helping local officials mount relief efforts in the wake of Tropical Storm Hubert, which has killed dozens of people in the Indian Ocean country and left an estimated 11,000 others homeless. More >>

Afghan Responsibility For Peace And Stability

19 March 2010 11:07am | United Nations

The time has come to transform the relationship between Afghanistan and its partners to enable greater responsibility on the part of Afghans themselves and an increasingly supporting role for the international community as the country strives to achieve ... More >>

Portuguese-Speaking Countries Join Forces With UN

19 March 2010 11:06am | United Nations

The United Nations agency that tackles HIV/AIDS and eight Portuguese-speaking countries that are home to an estimated 223 million people have agreed to strengthen their cooperation against the deadly disease. More >>

Another Darfur Ceasefire Deal Is Signed

19 March 2010 11:05am | United Nations

The top United Nations official in the war-wracked Darfur region of western Sudan today welcomed an agreement between the national Government and a rebel group, calling it “another important milestone” on the path towards a comprehensive peace pact ... More >>

Record Levels Of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

19 March 2010 11:04am | United Nations

Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is now at record levels with Asia bearing the brunt of the epidemic, says the United Nations World Health Organization in a report released today that also calls for better diagnosis of the disease. More >>

Appeals By Two Convicted Rwandans

19 March 2010 11:03am | United Nations

A United Nations tribunal today affirmed the conviction and 15-year sentence of a famous Rwandan singer and composer for his role during the mass killings that engulfed the country in 1994, and reduced the sentence handed down against a top official ... More >>

Over 200 Million Escape Slums

19 March 2010 11:02am | United Nations

While more than 200 million slum dwellers worldwide have escaped their conditions in the past decade, the overall population of slums has swelled by nearly 60 million in the same period, a new United Nations report finds. More >>

Vacancy At International Court Of Justice

19 March 2010 11:00am | United Nations

The Security Council decided today that the election to fill the vacancy at the principal judicial organ of the United Nations arising from the resignation of Judge Shi Jiuyong will take place on 29 June. More >>

Asia-Pacific: Cooperation In Health Sector

19 March 2010 10:58am | United Nations

Countries in the Asia-Pacific region must step up their cooperation to tackle the threat of highly infectious diseases – including H1N1 – crossing borders, a senior United Nations official said today. More >>

Rocket Attack From Gaza Into Israel

19 March 2010 10:55am | United Nations

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned today’s rocket attack from Gaza which killed a civilian in Israel, stressing that all acts of violence are “totally unacceptable.” More >>

NZ Trauma Recovery Team continues work in Samoa

19 March 2010 10:23am | Trauma Recovery Team NZ

The NZ Trauma Recovery Team returned from Samoa earlier this month, following a successful first trip. Over forty people attended the three-day training held at Aggie Gray’s Hotel in Apia. Day One opened with the Samoan Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Lupesoliai ... More >>

Delay of the President’s Indonesia, Australia Trip

19 March 2010 9:48am | The White House

the President telephoned the leaders of Indonesia and Australia and told them that he must postpone his planned visits there for a later date so he can remain in Washington for this critical vote. The President now expects to visit Indonesia and Australia ... More >>

Trades volunteers needed to rebuild in Fiji

19 March 2010 9:47am | Habitat for Humanity

Habitat is calling for expressions of interest from qualified builders as the organisation responds to the devastation caused by category 4 Cyclone Tomas in Fiji last Friday. More >>

Caritas Responding to Fiji Cyclone

19 March 2010 9:37am | Caritas Aotearoa

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has pledged NZ$10,000 to help relief efforts in Fiji following Cyclone Tomas, and is accepting donations from the public. More >>

Consideration of 5th NZ Rights Report Concludes

18 March 2010 5:37pm | United Nations

Questions Posed on Treatment of Maori, Asylum Seekers, Human Trafficking More >>

Fire And Death At Major Ugandan Cultural Site

18 March 2010 5:35pm | United Nations

The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today expressed her sorrow over the fire that destroyed the Tombs of Buganda Kings, a World Heritage List site in Uganda. More >>

Independent Review Of Somali Food Programme

18 March 2010 5:28pm | United Nations

The Security Council should urge Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to initiate an independent investigation into the food distribution programme in Somalia, a United Nations group of experts recommends in a new report which claims that humanitarian officials divert ... More >>

TEAR Fund accepting donations for Fiji

18 March 2010 5:24pm | TEAR Fund

While TEAR Fund NZ has not launched an appeal to help the victims of Fiji’s most recent cyclone, it is accepting public funds to help with the aid effort. More >>

Key Challenges For Côte D'ivoire

18 March 2010 5:23pm | United Nations

The long-awaited and much-delayed presidential elections as well as reunification are the key issues for Côte d'Ivoire, the top United Nations envoy there said today, lamenting what he described as a “serious weakening” of the momentum toward holding ... More >>

Pakistan: Improving Access to Food

18 March 2010 5:21pm | United Nations

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today that it has contracted eight mills in Pakistan’s conflict-affected Swat Valley to produce fortified wheat flour in a bid to boost the local economy and make food more easily accessible to ... More >>

Books For 145,000 Central African Children

18 March 2010 4:27pm | United Nations

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is working to ensure that some 145,000 children affected by conflict in the Central African Republic have literature, mathematics and science books. More >>

UN Trade Arm Brings Experts Together

18 March 2010 4:23pm | United Nations

Experts are meeting at a gathering of the United Nations agency promoting commerce to fight poverty to find ways to help developing countries improve so-called infrastructure service sectors (ISS), which serve key functions including banking, energy and transportation. More >>

Secretary-General Calls For Rejection Of Extremism

18 March 2010 4:21pm | United Nations

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appealed for a rejection of extremism, underscoring that the international grouping of over 100 countries known as the Non-Aligned Movement, or NAM, has an invaluable role to play in promoting greater understanding. More >>

NZ: Our Commitment to Human Rights, Record Clear

18 March 2010 3:28pm | United Nations

While affirming his country’s “unique but robust constitutional structure”, which afforded opportunities for engagement with human rights protections across all Government institutions and among all citizens, the Minister of Justice of New ... More >>

C-130 Hercules Continues to Assist in Fiji

18 March 2010 3:28pm | New Zealand Defence Force

A C-130 Hercules aircraft from NO 40 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force remains in Fiji to assist with delivering aid to areas affected by Cyclone Tomas. The aircraft will also undertake further reconnaissance missions over some of the ... More >>

Red Cross Action in Fiji

18 March 2010 11:52am | NZ Red Cross

Fiji Red Cross Society emergency response teams are supplying aid to up to 18,000 evacuees and conducting disaster assessments. More >>

Peter Bethune Held In Solitary Confinement

17 March 2010 4:58pm | Gary Thomason

Gary Thomason arrived in Tokyo on Sunday 14th March less than 48 hours after Peter Bethune was arrested by the Japanese Coast Guard in Tokyo harbor, to lend support to Peter and understand the local situation. More >>

Fiji's main tourism belt safe from cyclone

17 March 2010 4:16pm | Tourism Fiji

With Tropical Cyclone Tomas now more than 250 kilometres south of the big island of Viti Levu and well away from the majority of the country’s tourism plant, Tourism Fiji has advised international air services into the country are now back on full ... More >>

CICC Calls On States To Join The ICC

17 March 2010 4:06pm | Coalition for the International Criminal Court

New York – The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC)—a global network of more than 2,500 civil society organizations - called on governments that have not done so, to demonstrate their commitment to international justice and the ... More >>

Army Reservists reach out to Oruzgan

17 March 2010 4:04pm | Australian Defence Force

Special Force reservists from 1st Commando Regiment have successfully completed their mission in Afghanistan of providing protection for the local Afghan population. More >>

America’s first carbon neutral city

17 March 2010 3:57pm | Davis California

DAVIS, CA - The city with the nation’s first bike lanes and climate specific energy efficiency ordinance is teaming up with former Olympic Torch Relay director and Earth Run organizer David Gershon to achieve the impossible. By unanimous vote of its city ... More >>

Georgia: Simulating War Or Provoking It?

17 March 2010 3:55pm | Rick Rozoff

On the evening of March 13 Georgia's Imedi television channel ran a 30-minute prime time "simulated" newscast about a Russian invasion of the South Caucasus nation complete with a report that the country's mercurial and megalomaniacal president - Mikheil ... More >>

Vedanta Mine Slammed By Indian Government Team

17 March 2010 3:52pm | Survival International

A team of experts from the Indian government has released a damning report on the activities of FTSE 100 company Vedanta Resources, and its plans to mine for bauxite on tribal land in Orissa, India. More >>

Attack on a Roma family in Czech Republic

17 March 2010 3:50pm | Rajan Zed

Hindus have strongly condemned recent reported Molotov cocktail attack on a Roma family in an Ostrava settlement in Czech Republic. More >>

Advancing Protection in the 21st Century

17 March 2010 3:48pm | US State Department

I want to thank Human Rights First for the opportunity to speak with you this morning, for organizing this day-long conference and for the group’s undying commitment to the protection of the world’s most vulnerable people. I also want to thank my ... More >>

Meeting with Iraqi Women Provincial Council

17 March 2010 3:47pm | US State Department

Today I had the privilege of meeting with twenty-two Iraqi women provincial council leaders and an influential civil society leader from Anbar. These women are visiting the United States to participate in an exchange of ideas on public service in the ... More >>

Meeting with Iraqi Women Provincial Council Leader

17 March 2010 3:45pm | US State Department

Today I had the privilege of meeting with twenty-two Iraqi women provincial council leaders and an influential civil society leader from Anbar. These women are visiting the United States to participate in an exchange of ideas on public service in the ... More >>

Remarks With Northern Ireland First Minister

17 March 2010 3:44pm | US State Department

SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, it’s a great pleasure to welcome the first minister and the deputy first minister from Northern Ireland. I have enjoyed the opportunity to work with both of these leaders, and I am delighted that they are coming here to ... More >>

Remarks With Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin

17 March 2010 3:43pm | US State Department

SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I am delighted to be standing here with the foreign minister. Because of our personal relationship and because of the close relationship between our two countries, we always look forward to these visits. And I’m also going to ... More >>

Venezuela: Policy for Presidential Address

17 March 2010 3:39pm | Council on Hemispheric Affairs

The Venezuelan government has received severe domestic and international criticism for blocking cable television channel Radio Caracas Television International (RCTV) from broadcasting its programming. While the natural immediate reaction for most ... More >>

Solomon Islands Women Tell Their Story

17 March 2010 10:51am | Pacific Media Centre

* Pacific Media Centre on Twitter - http://twitter.com/pacmedcentre Solomon Islands Women 'Barrier Breakers' Tell Their Story More >>

Pacific chlamydia burden amongst highest in world

17 March 2010 10:23am | Secretariat of the Pacific Community

“This should be a day for celebrating progress made in the Pacific towards gender equality and women’s rights,” said Dr Jimmie Rodgers, Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) speaking last week on International Women’s ... More >>

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