http://www.un.org/news A world of news from the world organization. en-us Copyright 2009, UN News Centre http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/media/nslogo.gif http://www.un.org/news 140 Latest from the UN News Service http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33322&Cr=MDG&Cr1= Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on world leaders to attend a summit next September to boost efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which seek to slash a host of social ills, ranging from extreme poverty and hunger to maternal and infant mortality to lack of access to education and health care, all by 2015. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33315&Cr=iraq&Cr1= Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST The Security Council today renewed for another year a development fund set up immediately after the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 to meet the country's humanitarian needs, economic reconstruction and infrastructure repairs. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33297&Cr=transport&Cr1= Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Transport ministers from across Asia agreed today to work on a treaty to develop so-called dry ports - inland transport and logistics hubs - as part of a United Nations-backed network of more than 250,000 kilometres of railways and roads to spur intra-regional trade and growth, especially for landlocked countries. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33272&Cr=cambodia&Cr1= Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Although working conditions in Cambodian garment factories continue to improve, some concern remains over restrictions imposed on workers' rights and lingering discrimination, according to a new report from the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) released today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33267&Cr=myanmar&Cr1= Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST United Nations development officials held talks with Government ministers in Myanmar today aimed at boosting the impoverished country's agricultural sector to help it reclaim its status as the rice bowl of Asia. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33265&Cr=trade&Cr1= Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Hailing new tariff reductions announced by six Asian countries that include three of the region's largest economies, China, India and the Republic of Korea, the United Nations said today it looked forward to even deeper cuts. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33240&Cr=south-south&Cr1= Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations agency that promotes commerce to fight poverty kicked off a meeting today aimed at finding ways in which trade, investment and technology transfers between developing countries - so-called "South-South" cooperation - can improve farming to boost food security in poorer nations. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33238&Cr=asia&Cr1= Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Transport ministers and experts from across Asia and the Pacific opened a week-long series of meetings at United Nations headquarters in Bangkok today to accelerate regional integration by further linking national railway networks and setting up major hub stations connecting inland economic centres. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33224&Cr=undp&Cr1= Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Even though young people aged 15 to 29 in the so-called Mercosur countries of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay are better educated than ever before they are more likely to be unemployed, while a Latin American youth is 30 times more likely to be murdered than one in Europe, according to a United Nations report released today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33216&Cr=eclac&Cr1= Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Latin America and the Caribbean will bounce back faster than expected from the global financial crisis, with growth projected at over 4 per cent next year, a regional United Nations agency for economic development announced today.