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New York: The United Nations must enhance its capacity to provide mediation support to prevent conflicts worldwide, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, adding that partnerships with regional organizations and civil society would be crucial to achieve this.

At the Council for Trade in Goods meeting on 7 November 2011, members urged Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and the European Union to roll back various trade restrictions. The European Union said it would continue to consult with members on its waiver request for trade preferences for Pakistan. The Council carried out its final transitional review on China’s accession to the WTO.

New York: Top United Nations officials today stressed the need to do more to protect civilians who are increasingly bearing the brunt of the various conflicts taking place around the world, as well as enhance accountability to hold perpetrators to account.

New York: An atlas showcasing detailed satellite images of world’s heritage sites in danger was launched today at the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for universal accession to the United Nations convention that prohibits the use of certain indiscriminate weapons that cause unnecessary suffering to combatants or civilians, including landmines, booby-traps and other explosive devices.

New York: More than 50 per cent of the world’s food fish will come from aquaculture, making it a crucial method to reduce poverty and combat food insecurity, said a United Nations report released today, while calling for governments to step up their efforts to support this practice.

New York: A new United Nations report details numerous human rights violations during the pre-electoral period in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and warns that such incidents could threaten the democratic process and result in post-electoral violence.

With terrorism figuring in the discussions of the SAARC Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Wednesday, there is a hope that Afghanistan issue will find a place in the deliberations of the two-day 17th SAARC Summit beginning on Thursday at Addu in the Maldives.

Scheduled Tribe community constitute more than 8 per cent of our national population and are still waiting to receive the benefits of freedom even after a lapse of more than sixty years since we achieved independence. The tribal populations are placed at the lowest rungs of the society in terms of various developmental indicators.

New Delhi: When Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh meets his Nepali counterpart at the SAARC summit in Maldives, he will discuss a peculiar problem with him, that is the issue of appointment of Kathmandu’s next envoy to New Delhi, who was a Maoist and had once links with insurgent outfits of India’s Northeast.