Burmese military authorities keeping best-quality supplies donated for cyclone victims, an estimated 2 million in desperate need, handing out rotten & low-grade food; allegation adds new dimension to indifference & incompetence of regime's response to cyc
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is "immensely frustrated" at Burma's slow response to the cyclone that hit the country nine days ago.
Mr Ban said the aid that has been trickling into Burma could be just a 10th of what was needed.
The World Food Programme has halted aid shipments to Burma after the contents of its first delivery were impounded on arrival in the military-ruled country.
The UN says its planes carrying vital food supplies cannot enter because they still do not have permission to land.
But the regime has now given permission for at least one US aid flight to land in the country.
A "SILENT tsunami" unleashed by costlier food is threatening 100million people, the United Nations has warned, revealing that its World Food Program has begun cutting the provision of school meals to some
The United Nations, especially the permanent five members of the Security Council, are allowing the Darfur genocide to continue. Urge the Ambassadors from the US, the UK, Russia and France to help China insist that Khartoum immediately admit the
EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel has warned that rising world food costs could lead to a humanitarian crisis in Africa. He said it was less visible than the threat of rising oil prices but had the potential effect of a "real economic and humanita
Rizana Nafeek, a Sri Lankan servant sentenced to death by a Saudi court, is facing decapitation. ACAT-France and ECPM have joined forces to defend poor immigrants at risk of capital punishment in Saudi Arabia.
'We are following the situation and we urge that care be taken by all concerned to avoid confrontation and violence,' said spokeswoman Marie Okabe, when asked for the UN position on the situation.
A presidential election tainted by vote-tampering - now Kenya's future hangs in the balance, with over 600 killed and 250,000 made homeless. We need to act fast.
To think that they claim being "peace mediators"... I wonder if Tony Blair, the "Middle East envoy" will also be celebrating the elimination of Palestine in Windsor Castle??
Over the last century about 75% of the world's crop varieties have been lost, data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) suggests. UN researchers say that we now rely on just three crops: wheat, rice and maize.
The Commonwealth Conference in Singapore has ended with a compromise over the wording of the Declaration of Commonwealth principles. Talks centred around Britain's proposal to sell arms to South Africa, despite a voluntary United Nations embargo on arms
Growing up in the U Sduring the late 1950s and early 1960s while strongly supporting the just struggle of African Americans for civil rights, I was brainwashed at school as well as by the mainstream news media and popular culture to be just as pro-Israel
The United Nations Secretary General will leave shortly for Baghdad in a final diplomatic effort to avoid war against Iraq. Javier Perez de Cuellar is expected to raise the possibility of sending a UN peacekeeping force to Kuwait to oversee the peaceful
