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NetworkNewsToday: 12 December 2009 - UNDP: President Anote Tong of Kiribati says that his people are already the victims of climate change and will soon have to be relocated as the low lying pacific Island disappears into the ocean. In low-lying Pacific islands like Kiribati, thousands of people risk losing their homes and eventually the entire island to rising sea-levels within the next 50 years. Kiribatis highest point is four meters above see level. Its entire population lives within one ...

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NetworkNewsToday: 12 December 2009 - World Bank: Some developing countries have been hit hard by the economic crisis. Yemen is responding by creating jobs so people can afford the rising food costs. High in the hills of rural Yemen villagers are busy building a road of stone. While some of the men haul the heavy rocks from nearby mountains; others chip and cut them into blocks, which are then held firmly into place with cement made from water and sand. Its an effort involving many, creating ...

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NetworkNewsToday: 12 December 2009 - - (UNICEF) - UNICEF is providing aid to El Salvador following devastating floods in November that killed over 190 people, left 80 reported missing and displaced thousands. Hundreds of homes were destroyed and thousands damaged. Heavy rains from Hurricane Ida and another severe weather system in the Pacific battered five Salvadoran provinces, including La Libertad, where Melara is located. Today, the displaced residents of Melara are living in a shelter ...

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NetworkNewsToday: 12 December 2009 - UNAMID: Students from all over El-Fasher, Sudan, as well as members of a regional scout organization took part on Thursday (10 December) of an event designed to raise awareness about gender-based violence. Young people performed songs, poems, and traditional dances, putting a positive outlook on the campaign, called The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. UNAMID Deputy Joint Special Representative, Mohamed Yonis applauded their contribution ...

Author: NetworkNewsToday; Tags: Darfur Sudan gender-violence women rape womens rights Human Rights Day Mohamed Yonis UNAMID UN El-Fasher NetworkNewsToday Network News Today

NetworkNewsToday: 12 December 2009 - UNTV - United Nations: As the political momentum grows to reach a new climate deal in Copenhagen, the private sector is stepping up its efforts to invest in clean energy technology in developing countries. Private companies like Himin Solar Energy Group, the worlds largest maker of solar water heaters, are today lighting up entire towns through clean energy technologies. In Dezhou, a city located 300 kilometres south of Beijing, lies China Solar Valley ...

Author: NetworkNewsToday; Tags: Climate Change Clean Energy technology Copenhagen UNTV UN United Nations Himin Solar Energy UNEP UN Environment Programme Achim Steiner NetworkNewsToday Network News Today

NetworkNewsToday: 12 December 2009 - - UNTV - United Nations: A memorial marking the second anniversary of the deadly terrorist attack in Algiers which claimed the lives of 17 and injured 40 staff members takes place at UN headquarters. United Nations staff members gathered today to pay tribute to the 17 colleagues killed two years ago in a terrorist attack at the world bodys offices in the Algerian capital. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at UN ...

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NetworkNewsToday: 10 December 2009 - UNTV - United Nations: Following todays meetings at the UN Security Coucil, the US Permanent Representative Susan E. Rice spoke with the UN press corps about Human Rights Day, President Barack Obama recieving the Nobel Prize in Oslo today and about the discussions in the Security Council regarding nuclear non-proliferation. . NetworkNewsToday: SEE: www.NetworkNewsToday.net BREAKING INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND OPINION FROM GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES by Internationally ...

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NetworkNewsToday: 10 December 2009 - UNTV - United Nations: Following today's meeting of the UN Security Council, the new Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, spoke with UN correspondents about the discussions over nuclear non-proliferation and other matters. . NetworkNewsToday: SEE: www.NetworkNewsToday.net BREAKING INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND OPINION FROM GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES by Internationally Accredited News Journalists . .

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NetworkNewsToday: 10 December 2009 - UNTV - United Nations: Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the permanent Representative of France, HE Mr. Gérard Araud, on Non-proliferation following the briefing by the Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) [Iran]. . NetworkNewsToday: SEE: www.NetworkNewsToday.net BREAKING INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND OPINION FROM GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES by Internationally Accredited News Journalists . ....

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NetworkNewsToday: 10 December 2009 - UNTV - United Nations: Following today's meeting of the UN Security Council the rotating President this month, Michel Kafando of Burkina Faso discussed the Council's concerns about the situation in Burundi and other matters. . NetworkNewsToday: SEE: www.NetworkNewsToday.net BREAKING INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND OPINION FROM GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES by Internationally Accredited News Journalists . .

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