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New York: Youth violence has reached epidemic levels in the Caribbean, a top official from Saint Kitts and Nevis said today, urging United Nations agencies to help the region’s countries curtail the growing problem.

New York: Lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are taking an enormous toll in human health and economic development on the Pacific islands, the leaders of two countries in the region told the United Nations today, calling for accelerated efforts to defeat the problem.

New York: Describing his country’s ongoing name dispute with neighbouring Greece as “utterly incomprehensible,” the President of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia told the United Nations today that a solution must be found that recognizes “our commitment, desire and determination for coexistence, community, individuality and identity.”

New York: The Caribbean island State of Antigua and Barbuda today demanded reparations for injustices suffered by African slaves and their descendants, saying at the United Nations that segregation and violence against people of African descent had impaired their capacity for advancement as nations, communities and individuals.

New York: India today cautioned against protectionism in the face of the global economic slowdown, calling at the United Nations for effective ways to promote the coordination of microeconomic policies in the world’s biggest economies.

Jagannath Sarkar who died early this year at the ripe age of 92, was one of the veterans of the communist movement in India. He played a leading role in building up of the CPI’s mass base in Bihar in the 1960s and 1970s. The Left base faced erosion following the Mandal agitation and there has been no reversal till now. Sarkar in this perceptive analysis elaborates on the reasons of the decline of left base in Bihar. We are reproducing his article here on the eve of his birth anniversary on September 25.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party which has already taken lead over its rivals in election campaign demonstrated its strength in Bundelkhand which not only boosted the moral of party leaders and workers but also unnerved other political parties, especially the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).

New York: Small producers in rural areas of Honduras will be the main beneficiaries of a new United Nations-backed project that will invest $21 million to combat poverty in the north of the country.

New York: Suriname has urged the international community to move quickly to create the United Nations-backed climate change adaptation fund to support vulnerable developing countries that risk losing their peoples’ livelihoods to the effects of climate change.

WASHINGTON - Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kevin Rudd, and World Bank Group President, Robert B. Zoellick, today signed a landmark Partnership Framework, paving the way for Australia and the World Bank to work more closely to help the world’s poorest people.