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=33303&Cr=youth&Cr1= Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST In an effort to harness the energy, imagination and initiative of the world's youth in overcoming the challenges facing humankind, from enhancing peace to boosting economic development, the United Nations today proclaimed an International Year of Youth starting on 12 August 2010. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33302&Cr=youth&Cr1= Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Young filmmakers from around the world will be recognized for their efforts to highlight migration, identity and diversity issues at a United Nations-backed ceremony in New York today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33280&Cr=nepal&Cr1= Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations, the Nepalese Government and Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) today signed an action plan to accelerate the release of nearly 3,000 child soldiers who served in the Maoist army during the country's decade-long civil war and remain in temporary camps three years after a peace deal ended the conflict. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33275&Cr=wfp&Cr1= Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations today launched a pilot project to provide fuel-efficient stoves to some 150,000 women in Sudan and Uganda to cut the risks of murder, rape and other violence they face in gathering firewood, while at the same time protecting the environment. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33148&Cr=hiv&Cr1=aids Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has applauded the big leap taken by the South African Government towards achieving universal access to treatment for HIV for the country's women and children living with the virus. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33140&Cr=women&Cr1= Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Thirty years after an international treaty banning discrimination against women came into force, women and girls are still suffering from the scourge, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33113&Cr=woman&Cr1= Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Women, among the first victims of climate change and enduring social ills, must also be seen as principal agents for change both in curbing global warming and in attaining the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to improve the lot of humankind, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33078&Cr=Yemen&Cr1= Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Children in northern Yemen have little to celebrate on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid Al Adha, a senior official with the United Nations Children&#39s Fund (UNICEF) has stated, drawing attention to the plight of the youngest victims of the ongoing conflict between Government forces and rebels. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33075&Cr=sudan&Cr1= Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Despite progress in Sudan in the past two years in tackling the problem of children in armed conflict, many challenges remain, ranging from reintegrating child soldiers to dealing with youngsters abducted by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) who have been brainwashed into killing their own parents, a senior United Nations official said today. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33067&Cr=Zimbabwe&Cr1= Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST Some 100 children under five years of age will die today in Zimbabwe, a bleak statistic that is part of new social development data released by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Government, revealing that the situation there for women and children has deteriorated in the past five years.