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=33318&Cr=philippines&Cr1= Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST United Nations humanitarian officials are working with authorities in the Philippines to prepare for what scientists believe to be the imminent eruption of Mount Mayon, an active volcano within close reach of tens of thousands of people. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33309&Cr=unhcr&Cr1= Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations refugee agency has voiced deep distress at the forcible return of 20 ethnic Uighurs from China who had filed claims for asylum in Cambodia but whose cases had not yet been heard, saying it was part of a disturbing increase worldwide in such cases. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33300&Cr=disaster&Cr1= Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST The 16-year-old United Nations disaster response system reached its 1,000th deployment this year, with the dispatch of experts to the storm-battered Philippines. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33298&Cr=gulf+of+aden&Cr1= Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Fleeing conflict, poverty and drought, more than 74,000 people - a record number - from the Horn of Africa risked their lives this year to make the treacherous journey across the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea to begin their lives anew in Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33296&Cr=pakistan&Cr1= Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations refugee agency is rushing hundreds of tents to supplement Government relief efforts in north-west Pakistan, where some 40,000 people have fled an intensification of military operations over the last few weeks. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33294&Cr=unifil&Cr1= Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations maritime task force serving off the Lebanese coast is taking part in a search-and-rescue operation today to try to save the lives of the crew of a cargo ship that sank last night in rough seas. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33279&Cr=copenhagen&Cr1= Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Climate change is the biggest factor driving forced displacement, a top United Nations official said today, underscoring that global warming is blurring the traditional distinction between refugees and migrants. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33266&Cr=palestin&Cr1= Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations agency entrusted with assisting millions of Palestinian refugees has launched its 2010 appeal for over $323 million at a meeting of the 22-member League of Arab States in Cairo, with a focus on those people in Gaza and the West Bank who have been hit hardest by Israel's closures and access restrictions. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33264&Cr=equateur&Cr1= Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Tribal violence in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sent 84,000 people fleeing across the border into the Republic of the Congo since last month, with the United Nations refugee agency reporting today that supplies to assist the displaced are running low. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33263&Cr=cerf&Cr1= Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Several major donors have made multi-year commitments to provide significant funding to the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), which aims to save scores of thousands of lives by providing virtually immediate financing in sudden-onset crises, like earthquakes or hurricanes, or for ongoing but neglected emergencies.