IDN InDepthNews informs on topics related to globalization, global governance and international cooperation http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=UN Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:50:55 +0100 http://indepthnews.net/images/rechts.jpg http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=UN 292 117 IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters de-de rjaura@globalommedia.com(Ramesh Jaura) jbusse@globalommedia.com(Joerg-Werner Busse) 60 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-30%2016:50:55&key2=1 By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TOKYO (IDN) - Nuclear abolition is not yet around the corner. But the United States, Britain and France have apparently come round to the view that the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is an appropriate opportunity to underline a paradigm shift under way. Reliable reports say that senior officials of the three nuclear powers will for the first time attend the annual ceremony in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 to commemorate the atomic bombing of the city in 1945. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-30%2016:50:55&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-28%2021:32:26&key2=1 By Richard Johnson IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis GENEVA (IDN) - As the mandate, being carried out by the UN-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID), comes to an end on July 31, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's report to the Security Council indicates that the situation in Sudan's western region is rather critical. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-28%2021:32:26&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-27%2001:30:38&key2=1 By Nirode Masson IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis LONDON (IDN) - The food price spike followed by the financial and economic crisis has worsened global food insecurity. But beyond a grand commitment to doing more about food security, there is no agreement on specifics, says a new report. The specifics on which an agreement has yet to be achieved are: a definition of what food assistance is, or the nature of a new food security architecture, and what should replace the Food Aid Convention due to expire in 2011. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-27%2001:30:38&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-24%2015:41:39&key2=1 By Asha-Rose Migiro* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint NEW YORK (IDN) - The news of a pregnancy should ideally be met with joy -- but all too often there is justifiable fear. The African Union Summit, set to focus on the health of mothers and children, has a chance to transform this fear into hope. (The Summit concludes on July 27, 2010.) Ten years into the Millennium Development Goals, we know what African leaders have always appreciated: when you invest in mothers, whole societies benefit, and when you care for children, you raise a new generation of leaders. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-24%2015:41:39&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-23%2011:47:53&key2=1 By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) - A huge funding gap threatens to torpedo efforts by the international community to cope with critical global development and environmental challenges. At least $324 billion will be required each year between 2012 and 2017 -- a reason pressing enough for a Committee of Experts to break taboos and explore innovative financing sources. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-23%2011:47:53&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-20%2009:32:50&key2=1 By IDN Environment Desk IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) - Humankind will suffer annual losses of 'natural capital' valued at between 1.3 to 3.1 trillion Euros, if 'business as usual' deforestation and land use change continue, according to United Nations' latest estimates. These stupendous figures exceed the total financial capital lost to Wall Street and City banks during 2008, their worst year in history. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-20%2009:32:50&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-19%2001:33:44&key2=1 By Richard Johnson IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis GENEVA (IDN) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a 'global code of practice' to stem the 'brain drain' of health-care workers from developing to high-income countries, which weakens health systems in the countries they quit. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-19%2001:33:44&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-17%2013:20:14&key2=1 By J. Chandler IDN-InDepth News Analysis TORONTO (IDN) - The United Nations has decided to help advance gender equality and women's rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country in South-Eastern Europe whose Constitution assures gender equality but women in the country are still restricted in the exercise of their fundamental rights and freedoms because of entrenched tradition. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-17%2013:20:14&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-16%2001:52:36&key2=1 By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis PARIS (IDN) - For the third time in less than two years, the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom has expressed concern over the death of an Indian journalist. Hem Chandra Pandey is the third Indian journalist to be killed since December 2008. He was killed early July 2010 along with a Maoist leader in an encounter with police in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-16%2001:52:36&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-13%2001:39:38&key2=1 By Richard Johnson IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis GENEVA (IDN) - The United Nations is leaving no stone unturned to galvanize action toward achieving by 2015 the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In run-up to a gathering of heads of government and state at the UN in September 2010, Secretary-General has set up an advocacy Group of eminent persons. A "real collection of superheroes in defeating poverty" has been chosen to serve on the Group, co-chaired by Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-13%2001:39:38&key2=1