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The World Critical Resources Summit Announces More Than 300 Global ...
MarketWatch - 54 minutes ago
Expert insights from the United Nations to the US Department of Energy will influence solutions about renewable energy, water, food, medicine, child health ...

AFP
UN goal for HIV drug access won't be reached by all: experts
AFP - 12 hours ago
So far, they are only a little more than a third to the way of fulfilling the pledges they made at their 2005 Gleneagles summit. He and Piot also said that ...
Newspapers Highlight Activities Related To World Breastfeeding Week
Medical News Today (press release), UK - 7 hours ago
According to UN News Service , advocacy campaigns have had to address traditional Togolese feeding practices that can lead to malnutrition, ...
Speculation and world food markets
The New Nation, Bangladesh - 2 hours ago
Rising food prices have also strained the capacity of food aid agencies, spurred a United Nations summit, and drawn extensive worldwide press coverage. ...

Washington Times
BERMAN: A 'new' new world order?
Washington Times, DC - 20 hours ago
Tehran, which is under trade sanctions intended to slow its nuclear program, is seeking a seat on the UN Security Council. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at it ...

World Press Review
Africa Struggles With Soaring Food Prices
World Press Review - 6 Aug 2008
Addressing an emergency summit on the global food crisis in Rome in June, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon underscored the threat to political ...
A viewer's guide to Olympic events
The Associated Press - 6 Aug 2008
The trio made sports history in 2005, when they each won world championship titles in their divisions, the first time that has ever happened in the same ...

AFP
UN official warns against using mercenaries to pacify trouble spots
AFP - 29 Jul 2008
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — The departing head of UN peacekeeping on Tuesday warned against the temptation to rely on mercenaries to pacify world trouble spots ...
Bush's genuinely principled stand
Bangkok Post, Thailand - 5 Aug 2008
She has also participated in several roundtable discussions on Burma with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his special envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari. ...
South Asia News in brief: 24 July–6 August
SciDev.net, UK - 6 Aug 2008
The index was developed as a response to the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index, which the Sri Lankans say doesn't take into ...
The Role of Foreign Minister
Scoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 20 hours ago
And, despite the imaginings of some New Zealand commentators, the truth is that Foreign Ministers around the world just want to get down to business when ...
Islamic Bloc Backs War Crimes Trials, But Not for Muslim Leader
CNSNews.com, VA - 6 Aug 2008
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) executive committee held an emergency meeting in Saudi Arabia on Monday and urged the UN Security Council ...

ABC News
Delhi risks a stumble at the finish line
Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - 4 Aug 2008
The international mood indicated that it would get that backing in the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency. India, however, was keen that the safeguards ...
IAEA clears safeguards agreement; 'important day' for India - PM Mangalorean.com
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A triumph of style over substance
The Daily Star, Bangladesh - 3 Aug 2008
Almost all of them, from the UN to the World Bank, are the flora of a different political landscape, planted in the period after the Second World War when ...
Ban fails UN and global challenge
Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - 15 Jul 2008
The UN secretary general limited himself to praising the summit's achievements and in so doing shed new light on the limits of his leadership style of ...
BC school closes before it opens
National Post, Canada - 2 Aug 2008
The school had campuses in operation elsewhere, and was affiliated with the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, or so thought one senior ...
Today’s Overview of Leading News & Views – 7 August 2008
Israel Hasbara Committee (subscription), NY - 3 hours ago
He protested the Annapolis Summit, saying, “Jerusalem is not merely the capital of Israel but the spiritual capital of Jews and Christians everywhere. ...
UN: UNITED NATIONS BRIEFING AND TV: TUESDAY, 29/07/2008 ...
MaximsNews Network, NY - 30 Jul 2008
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / - 29 July 2008 -- Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General ...
Mugabe’s biggest sin
Online Journal, FL - 16 hours ago
Britain got UN trade sanctions imposed to force Smith to buckle under. Despite sanctions, there was considerable support from conservative business ...
Why swallow Western propaganda on Zimbabwe ? Zimbabwe Guardian
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Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release), NY - 16 Jul 2008
It was adopted by the 2005 World Summit -- the largest gathering of Heads of State and Government the world has seen -- and was subsequently endorsed by ...
IOC president seeks compliance with doping rules
The Associated Press - 5 Aug 2008
The treaty ensures that the WADA code becomes national law and commits member nations to prevent cross-border trafficking of doping substances, ...
Is G8 a parallel UN Security Council?
The Daily Star, Bangladesh - 27 Jul 2008
At the end of World War II, the victors decided to take measures to avoid the possibility of repetition of a global conflict and formed the UN. ...
G8 summit: all talk, zero walk
Dispatch Online, South Africa - 10 Jul 2008
We have seven years left to the deadline for eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 to reduce world ...
All talk and zero commitment from G8 Independent Online
G8 Summit: Conference Chair Summary eGov monitor
G8 united to fulfil their pledge to Africa BuaNews Online (press release)
American Spectator - alpha-2.info
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Telegraph.co.uk
G8 summit: Gordon Brown rallies world leaders to impose sanctions ...
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 8 Jul 2008
Downing Street sources said that a draft United Nations Resolution containing travel bans and asset freezes on key members of Mr Mugabe's regime could go ...
'G8's powerful voice' decries Mugabe regime Globe and Mail
all 34 news articles »
World leaders embrace goal of halving emissions by midcentury
Kansas City Star, MO - 8 Jul 2008
Reductions from 2005 levels, for instance, would be far less than from 1990 levels, as in the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Still, UN Secretary-General ...
G-8 Leaders Pledge to Cut Emissions in Half by 2050 New York Times
G8 climate deal in danger of collapse Irish Times
Does the G8 have eight pairs of eyes? United Press International, Asia
Columbia Missourian
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G8 leaders are able but unwilling to act
guardian.co.uk, UK - 24 Jul 2008
The fourth problem is that the G8 ignores the very international institutions – notably the United Nations and the World Bank – that offer the best hope to ...
Lebanese Christians mull conversion
Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - 1 Aug 2008
A UN tribunal established to investigate the Hariri killing may now be jeopardized by the Hezbollah veto, as well as Israel-Syria peace negotiations. ...
UN peacebuilding efforts play a vital, unheralded role, says ...
UN News Centre - 30 Jul 2008
The UN peacebuilding architecture, established in the wake of the 2005 World Summit, is designed to help post-conflict countries determine the priority ...
GLOBAL: What we are doing about climate change
IRINnews.org, NY - 5 Aug 2008
According to the UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the decade from 1998 to 2007 was the warmest on record. Governments began to sit up and take ...
UN chief, German chancellor hold talks in Berlin
Xinhua, China - 15 Jul 2008
In that context, he highlighted the responsibility to protect (RtoP) -- a doctrine adopted by world leaders at the 2005 World Summit that holds states ...
Africa: AU Summit And G8 Review
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 1 Aug 2008
In its publication on the "Water for Life Decade, 2005-2015", the UN cited "Lack of safe water and adequate sanitation" as "the world's single largest cause ...

The Associated Press
Key developing nations reject G-8 climate plan
The Associated Press - 9 Jul 2008
And the UN's top climate official dismissed the G-8 goals as insignificant. The sharp criticism emerged at the close of a summit here of the Group of Eight ...
Harper has changed Canada's progressive image
Toronto Star,  Canada - 10 Jul 2008
UN climate chief Yvo de Boer has characterized this demand for developing countries to match emissions cuts by rich nations as hypocritical. ...

CBC.ca
G8: Who should be a member?
CBC.ca, Canada - 16 Jul 2008
"It's also not as if they're being offered a seat on the UN Security Council." Though they would likely join the clubhouse after China and India, ...

BBC News
Leaders of 43 nations take part in new union
Seattle Times, United States - 14 Jul 2008
Syria also attended the US-led Middle East summit meeting at Annapolis, Md., in November. Since then, Israel and Syria have opened serious but indirect ...
Reuters World News Highlights 1020 GMT July 13 guardian.co.uk
Bold Mediterranean summit opens diplomatic doors International Herald Tribune
Israel and Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, “never so close” AsiaNews.it
EUobserver.com - TheDay
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BARAK OBAMA & THE UN's DRIVE FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
NewsWithViews.com, OR - 19 Jul 2008
The UN is now becoming an international collection agency, pressing to collect the promises the world leaders made at the Millennium Summit. ...
CLIMATE CHANGE: Insubstantial Shadows
Inter Press Service (subscription), Italy - 28 Jul 2008
One could argue that both the UN and the G8 meetings have helped push the world to understanding global warming and the urgency for measures to check it, ...

The Associated Press
Bush Hails G-8 summit's work on climate change
The Associated Press - 9 Jul 2008
"This whole initiative has been a wild goose chase and hasn't brought anything constructive to the UN talks," said Antonio Hill, of the aid group Oxfam ...
EUROPEAN UNION @ UNITED NATIONS: 'GLOBAL EUROPE: WHAT NEXT FOR EU ...
MaximsNews Network, NY - 14 Jul 2008
World events won't stop to wait for European institutional navel-gazing - fascinating as some of us might find that exercise. Last week the G8 Summit was ...
Africa: Urging Universal Action To End Aids, 22000 Assemble In ...
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 4 Aug 2008
In 2005, world leaders acting through the United Nations committed to the goal of providing universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support ...
Outside View: ASEAN lessons -- Part 1
United Press International - 4 Aug 2008
This is when the government of Myanmar, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United Nations released the Post-Nargis Joint Assessment -- PONJA ...
G8 leaders' climate change plan gets frosty reception
Irish Times, Ireland - 8 Jul 2008
As the G8 summit heads into its final day, many believe it is also preparing to demand tougher UN action against Zimbabwe following a violent, ...
Africa: A Marginalized Continent in the ‘Free and Fair World’?
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - 28 Jul 2008
Furthermore, the 2003 report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on the issue draws a bleaker picture for the African ...
THE G8 AND THE REALIZATION OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN ...
Voice of Nigeria, Nigeria - 25 Jul 2008
It invited not only multilateral agencies like the World Bank and the United Nations but also some Asian countries like India, China, Korea as well as some ...
UN Security Council Action Needed on Burma
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand - 26 Jul 2008
The concept of "responsibility to protect," adopted by a UN world summit in 2005, should not be dead when it comes to the issue of Burma. ...
UN's 'responsibility to protect' rule might be premature for Zimbabwe
Edmonton Journal, Canada - 25 Jul 2008
Based on the consensus that emerged out of paragraphs 138-140 of the Outcome Document of the 2005 UN Summit, R2P is to be limited to the specific atrocities ...
Kofi Annan meets Ghanaian farmers and crop scientists
Accra Daily Mail, Ghana - 4 Aug 2008
Ghana, with a population of 21 million people, is among the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to reach and even surpass the 1996 World Food Summit goal ...
No G(r)8 Accomplishment
Washington Post, United States - 9 Jul 2008
The Major Economies issued their own declaration at the G-8 summit, pledging to support UN efforts to conclude a new climate agreement. ...

PRESS TV
What is G8 and what has it achieved?
PRESS TV, Iran - 18 Jul 2008
The G8 group with PLUS 5 also needs to offer more support to the United Nations and its affiliated agencies. Over sixty years of activity and having 192 ...
US Humanitarian Aid Focuses on Saving Lives, Not Politics
ISRIA (subscription), DC - 19 Jul 2008
The 2005 UN World Summit Document specifically established that nations have a "responsibility to protect" populations from genocide, ethnic cleansing, ...
G8 'fails to dig deep' on emission cuts
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 8 Jul 2008
Mr Brown had also announced that the G8 countries were agreed over the need to press the United Nations to impose fresh sanctions on Mr Mugabe and his ...
The developed world must shoulder the burden guardian.co.uk
all 19 news articles »
Food for thought
Pakistan Daily Mail, Pakistan - 2 Aug 2008
According to data released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in January, per-capita meat consumption was 124 kg in the United States, ...
US Government wants to retain control of DNS root zone
Heise Online, Germany - 4 Aug 2008
The two UN-backed meetings of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003 and 2005 were overshadowed by a serious dispute over the ...

Radio Australia
Walker's World: Indian nukes and the G8
United Press International - 9 Jul 2008
They promised that 16 years ago at the United Nations' 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. The most important event at the G8 meeting in Hokkaido, Japan, ...
Bush, Singh Cite `Progress' on US-India Nuclear Agreement Bloomberg
Bush, Singh signal progress on nuclear deal Monsters and Critics.com
US, India talk up nuclear deal Radio Australia
Hindu - Whitehouse.gov (press release)
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United States preview: US prefers clean team to medal supremacy
Xinhua, China - 23 Jul 2008
Russia won 92 total medals, 10 fewer than the United States. "We're forced," said Roush. "China has an incredibly strong team. Host nations generally have ...

Ceylon Daily News
G 8 Summit - unimpressive, ineffectual and disappointing
Ceylon Daily News, Sri Lanka - 14 Jul 2008
The Summit also failed to arrive at a blueprint for a post-Kyoto environmental protocol to be considered by the UN in its deliberations for a new agreement ...
UN: New Human Rights Commissioner Should Take Bold Steps to ...
Human Rights Watch (press release) - 18 Jul 2008
... the 2005 World Summit to double the regular budget of the high commissioner’s office within five years. Although key institutions of the United Nations ...
I’m Still the most Powerful Politician Today
Newswatch (subscription), Nigeria - 3 Aug 2008
Are we expecting United Nations to fund the development of the region? And, therefore, they wanted a representative of the UN to chair the summit? ...

GulfNews
UN court indicts Sudan leader—thousands protest
Workers World - 19 Jul 2008
Also the Peace and Security Council of the AU pointed out that the United Nations Security Council has addressed the issue in a March 2005 resolution which ...
Int'l Court indicts Sudan’s leader with genocide FinalCall.com
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Nigeria - Africa Foreign Policy: Time For Sober Reflection
LeadershipNigeria, Nigeria - 1 Aug 2008
While these engagements are worthy undertakings, they however tend to suck Nigeria intimately into the un ending African problems. ...
PRESS CONFERENCE BY OUTGOING ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR ...
Media Newswire (press release), NY - 31 Jul 2008
... had been created by the General Assembly’s 2005 World Summit to bridge the recognized gap in the institutional workings of the United Nations, ...

Globe and Mail
The shy, introverted superpower
Globe and Mail, Canada - 11 Jul 2008
The decisions of the United States will, for example, continue to dominate relations with Iran. The European nations are too divided over something as ...
Posted By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Pembroke Daily Observer,  Canada - 9 Jul 2008
Reductions from 2005 levels, for instance, would be far less than from 1990 levels, as in the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Still, UN Secretary-General ...
The Right Way to Engage China
Foreign Affairs Magazine - 3 Aug 2008
China has been deft in exercising its soft power to advance its economic interests around the world. In 2006, it hosted the first summit and third ...
Addressing Energy Issues In The Western Hemisphere
Scoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 3 Aug 2008
At a recent high-level meeting of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, the United States along with all other FAO nations also endorsed a declaration ...

Canada.com
Zimbabwe / United Nations / Security Council fails to adopt ...
Organisation de la Presse Africaine (Communiqués de presse), Switzerland - 11 Jul 2008
Russia’s action was inexplicable, in light of its statement at the G-8 Summit, where it had recommended a United Nations envoy and steps against individuals ...
G8 leaders demand tougher sanctions against Mugabe regime Aberdeen Press and Journal
Are sanctions the solution? Zimbabwe Guardian
all 2,198 news articles »
Gordon Brown escapes domestic gloom to find respite on world stage
guardian.co.uk, UK - 9 Jul 2008
The tough statement on Zimbabwe endorsing financial sanctions on Robert Mugabe's regime and a special UN envoy to supplement the ineffective diplomacy of ...
’WE MUST ACT NOW’, TOGETHER AS ONE WORLD COMMUNITY, TO AVOID ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release), NY - 9 Jul 2008
Much was achieved at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali last December. We must press forward to achieve the agreement that the world ...

Economist
The G8 summit in Hokkaido They came, they jawed, they failed to ...
Economist, UK - 10 Jul 2008
At the least, he says, the G8 leaders could have promised to treat cuts eventually agreed under UN auspices as legally binding. And they could have moved to ...
Japanese PM Fakuda, Chairman G8 2008 - Concluding Press Conference eGov monitor
all 453 news articles »
Doubling Of Grants To UN Food Aid Agency Urged
World Bank Group, DC - 23 Jul 2008
The UN's World Food Programme will stop ferrying aid between Thailand 's Don Muang airport and Myanmar 's main city Yangon from August 10, and withdraw five ...

GulfNews
Poor response to Darfur crisis
GulfNews, United Arab Emirates - 31 Jul 2008
In September 2005, more than 150 heads of state - including several Arab and Muslim leaders - gathered at the United Nations for a historic summit. ...

Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
Deals at Paris summit, but nothing major on Mideast peace
Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle - 27 Jul 2008
"We should achieve peace for the people of the Middle East in general, but also for peace in the world." The summit, which aimed to normalize Israel's ...
Low Enrolment in Higher Education Impedes Africa’s Devt
This Day, Nigeria - 22 Jul 2008
“The partnership”, he said, “is an excellent example of how UNESCO is collaborating with the private sector to achieve the objectives of World Summit on the ...

The Associated Press
Developing economies don't back G-8 climate goal
The Associated Press - 8 Jul 2008
Reductions from 2005 levels, for instance, would be far less than from 1990 levels, as in the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Still, UN Secretary-General ...
The current oil shock
Aljazeera.com, UK - 25 Jul 2008
On the other hand, according to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the CO2 capture and storage (CCS) system could someday ...

Breaking News
5th Summit of the Americas: Draft Declaration of Port of Spain ...
Breaking News, Trinidad and Tobago - 24 Jul 2008
We also support further dialogue and cooperation under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the commitments on long-term ...

CBS News
Exiting Iraq Is Easier Than They Say
CBS News, NY - 17 Jul 2008
We urge the next President to pursue a sweeping new United Nations mandate, to take effect in 2009, predicated upon a timetable of twelve to eighteen months ...
Jihad Economics and Islamic Banking
International Analyst Network, NY - 2 Aug 2008
The IDB has also channeled UN funds to Hamas, as documented by bank records discovered in the West Bank and Gaza. Yet, the IDB received UN observer status ...
June 2008 US-EU Summit Declaration
istockAnalyst.com, OR - 15 Jul 2008
We have co-sponsored a Declaration in the United Nations General Assembly to highlight the plight of prisoners of conscience throughout the world in honour ...

Canada.com
Zimbabwe: Brown uses shock tactics to secure tough sanctions ...
guardian.co.uk, UK - 8 Jul 2008
It also supported sending a UN special envoy to Harare. The backing for Britain's tough stance came after Brown handed photographs of the charred body of ...
Brutal photo seals Mugabe sanctions Sydney Morning Herald
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G8 push for development positions Africa for speedy MDGs realisation
BusinessDay, Nigeria - 22 Jul 2008
With the United Nations (UN) millennium summit, defined goals for 2015 having overall objective of halving the proportion of the world's population living ...
GMA's population policy lacks political will—Fidel Ramos
ABS CBN News, Philippines - 17 Jul 2008
Based on the UN Development Programme (UNDP) 2005 and 2007 Human Development Index (HDI) Reports, the Philippines fell 7 places in ranking (to 90 from 83) ...
US Will Not Give Up Oversight Of Internet Domain Name Root Zone
Intellectual Property Watch, Switzerland - 31 Jul 2008
The topic nearly led to a failure of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) because of demands by governments from the Arab world ...

Caribbean360.com
Petrocaribe summiteers agree on Venezuela oil easy buy terms
ITAR-TASS, Russia - 14 Jul 2008
The alliance was launched in June of 2005. The payment system allows for a few nations to buy oil on market value but only a certain amount is needed up ...
Central America's presence grows in Venezuelan oil pact International Herald Tribune
Chavez Hosts Petrocaribe Oil Summit Alalam News Network
OIL-CARIBBEAN: Petrocaribe Building ‘Anti-Crisis, Anti-Hunger Shield’ Inter Press Service (subscription)
all 471 news articles »
Venezuela : amateur dramatics, false witness
Scoop.co.nz, New Zealand - 28 Jul 2008
Outside the US, most of the world has friendly relations with Cuba and a majority with Iran too. Votes in the UN General Assembly show repeatedly that on ...
Obama Nations Abroad
American Spectator - 31 Jul 2008
There is a United States of America." Blair was said to regard the "ideological" approach to politics as "almost a perversion of the 20th century. ...
Speculation with world’s oil “abusive, injurious,” Dominican ...
Dominican Today, Dominican Republic - 14 Jul 2008
Fernandez, repeating his proposal during a press conference in Santo Domingo Wednesday, suggested that PetroCaribe summit and the United Nations create a ...
Dominican president: speculators to blame for soaring oil price Xinhua
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Hyderabad to host Internet governance
The Statesman, India - 10 Jul 2008
Its purpose is to support the United Nations Secretary General in carrying out the mandate from the World Summit on Information Society. ...

Vancouver Sun
Sleiman and Assad agree to exchange embassies
Daily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 13 Jul 2008
Later on Sunday, Sleiman met with UN chief Ban Ki-moon on the sidelines of the Mediterranean Union summit. After the meeting, Sleiman thanked Ban for all ...
Syrian, Lebanese Presidents to Meet in Paris Voice of America
France: Syria, Lebanon to upgrade ties The Associated Press
Syria's Intentions Slowly Coming Clear? CBS News
The National - Vancouver Sun
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Spiegel Online
Is Europe Leading or Losing on CO2 Emissions?
Spiegel Online, Germany - 5 Aug 2008
... of next year's UN-backed meeting in Copenhagen to negotiate a global agreement on climate change. For Europeans, the summit holds particular importance. ...
Bush and Burma
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand - 1 Aug 2008
She has also participated in several roundtable discussions on Burma with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his special envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari. ...
Japan ducks rice-crisis solution
Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - 17 Jul 2008
By C Peter Timmer The Group of Eight summit of the world's leading industrial nations held in Japan this month was a missed opportunity for the host nation ...
'Girl below 10 yrs raped every 13th hr'
Times of India, India - 23 Jul 2008
At the World Summit for Children in 1990 India adopted the World Declaration for Survival, Protection and Development of children. ...
World Bank Secret Report confirms Biofuel Cause of World Food Crisis
Center for Research on Globalization, Canada - 10 Jul 2008
The US Government at the recent Rome UN Food Summit claimed that "only 3% of food prices" were due to bio-fuels. The World Bank secret report says that at ...
African leaders raise doubts on G-8 commitments
FinalCall.com, IL - 22 Jul 2008
The first day of the annual G-8 summit was July 7. The meeting was also attended by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and World Bank president Robert ...

The Associated Press
US, allies want global pollution slashed _ by 2050
The Associated Press - 8 Jul 2008
Reductions from 2005 levels, for instance, would be far less than from 1990 levels, as in the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Still, UN Secretary-General ...

Ceylon Daily News
SAARC: Towards greater integration in South Asia
Ceylon Daily News, Sri Lanka - 25 Jul 2008
‘Desirous of promoting peace, stability, amity and progress in the region through strict adherence to the principles of the UNITED NATIONS CHARTER and ...
Biofuels and the Global Food Crisis - Who Is to Blame?
Council On Hemispheric Affairs, DC - 10 Jul 2008
US-Brazil tension, a relatively recent development, resurfaced during the UN World Food Summit in Rome on June 3-5, encouraging the booming Brazilian ...

New York Times
G8 climate slogan offers too little, too late
People's Daily Online, China - 9 Jul 2008
UN studies, conducted by leading environmentalists and scientists from across the world, show global temperatures could rise 2-4 C by 2080. ...
Richest Nations Pledge to Halve Greenhouse Gas New York Times
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G8 is Gr8?
New Statesman, UK - 10 Jul 2008
The real business on climate change is taking place within the framework of the UN Convention, which will set targets for the post-Kyoto, post-2012 regime ...

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