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High commodity prices have made European farmers much less dependent on income support, offering cash-strapped governments a unique opportunity to reform the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), according to a new OECD report.

New York: China and Russia today vetoed a draft resolution in the Security Council that had strongly condemned Syrian authorities for their violent crackdown against pro-democracy protesters this year and called for an immediate end to human rights abuses.

New York: The United Nations welcomed Mexico City’s new preventive measures to protect its population from earthquakes by ensuring that property at high risk of damage is expropriated by the Government and its occupants provided with safe alternate housing.

Governments and taxpayers spent about half a trillion US dollars last year supporting the production and consumption of fossil fuels. Removing inefficient subsidies would raise national revenues and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, according to OECD and IEA analyses.

New York: Understanding more about space science and that benefits that such technology has brought to everyday life is essential to helping the world address its most urgent problems, the United Nations said today as the Organization kicked off World Space Week.

Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have broadly agreed with the conclusions of the Ex-Post Assessment of Mauritania’s economic performance under the last three Fund-supported programs. They agreed that the newly finalized poverty-reduction strategy paper and the current Extended Credit Facility (ECF)-supported program appropriately address the challenges identified by the EPA.

WTO members scrutinized countries’ latest domestic support figures, assessed China’s performance over 10 years of membership and started to reflect on how they might reinvigorate their regular work, when they met as the Agriculture Committee on 29-30 September 2011.

At the meeting of the Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) on 3 October 2011, some members raised questions about certain investment measures by India, Indonesia and Nigeria. It also carried out its final annual review of China’s implementation of its commitments under the TRIMs Agreement.

New York: The United Nations has launched a pilot programme that uses mobile telephone technology to facilitate cash transfers to help thousands of poor people that were badly affected by the post-election crisis in Côte d’Ivoire to buy food.

New York: The United Nations human rights office today voiced deep concern about the anti-Roma demonstrations and accompanying hate speech that have been occurring in Bulgaria, and called on authorities to combat discrimination and protect minority groups.