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New York: Mauritian children are increasingly vulnerable to sexual exploitation, due to a combination of poverty, family dysfunction, social taboos, alcohol and drugs, an independent United Nations human rights expert warned today.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Nikolay Gueorguiev visited Chişinău April 27–May 12 to hold discussions on the third review under the Extended Credit Facility/Extended Fund Facility (ECF/EFF) arrangements with Moldova.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Christian Beddies visited Bishkek during April 20-May 4, 2011 to hold discussions on a set of economic policies that could be supported by a medium-term arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF).

New York: International tourism continues to recover from the global financial crisis and downturn of 2008-09, rising in every region of the world except the Middle East and North Africa during the first two months of this year, according to new United Nations figures.

New York: The United Nations today helped launch the first global Decade of Action for Road Safety in a bid to reduce a scourge that kills an estimated 1.3 million people every year and leaves millions of others injured or permanently disabled.

New York: About a third of all the food produced for human consumption each year – or roughly 1.3 billion tons – is lost or wasted, according to a new study commissioned by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

New York: Policies aimed at expanding trade in Bhutan and promoting the Asian country’s unique goal of maximizing “gross national happiness” should be linked to strategies for educating women and enhancing their positions in society and in the economy, a new United Nations report says.

Did the United States achieve “justice” for the victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks by killing their prime instigator and the world’s worst-ever jehadi hate-peddler Osama bin Laden, as President Barack Obama claimed? The honest answer must be, the US accomplished a limited form of justice, as retribution or revenge, not full justice.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Who will win the Kerala electoral sweepstakes this time? That is the question the state is wrestling with these days.

Considering that the Allahabad high court’s judgment on the Ayodhya dispute attracted a great deal of flak when it was delivered last year, it is hardly surprising that the Supreme Court has now decided to put it on hold. Not only that, there is latent criticism in its description of the judgment as a “rare” one “whose operation has to be stayed”. Such a suspension would not have been necessary if the rarity underlined judicial acumen.