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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will focus its activities for the period ahead on securing the recovery from the global financial crisis and making progress in its governance and mandate reforms, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in presenting the IMF's work program for the upcoming period.

New York: The United Nations human rights chief has urged the Kenyan Government to reconsider setting up a special tribunal to pursue accountability for the crimes committed during the violence that followed the disputed December 2007 elections.

WASHINGTON, DC ─ The rural poor in the Indian state of West Bengal stand to benefit from a US$200 million IDA credit aiming to improve the effectiveness of service delivery by Gram Panchayats, the lowest level of village government in India.

New York: The United Nations refugee agency has voiced concern over delays of a search-and-rescue operation for a boat carrying more than 20 people - mostly Eritreans - near Malta.

Washington, D.C. — Housing finance is prospering in emerging markets despite the economic slowdown and the mortgage crisis in many developed economies, finds a team working on housing finance at the World Bank Group.

PARIS — The World Bank Group and the Government of Switzerland have called for concerted action against plundering of developing countries. Much of the money stolen from them finds safe haven in international financial centers. Failing to stem and reverse these criminal flows contributes to the impoverishment of the world's poorest countries.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged governments and citizens across the global to acknowledge the enormous value of the world's oceans to humanity and ensure that pollution of the bodies of water by human activity is brought under control.

New York: The United Nations refugee agency has voiced its concern at reports that the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom are arranging deportations of Iraqi citizens back to Baghdad, Kirkuk and other violence-prone areas later this week.

New Delhi: The Ministry of Panchayati Raj has asked all the States particularly those affected by the Left Wing Extremism to ensure proper implementation of PESA Guidelines in their areas so that the PRIs could be made stronger enough. In a letter written to all Chief Secretaries of States to States the Ministry has urged them to take all necessary steps that are required to check the deepening and widening of extremism in PESA areas. The Ministry has also underlined the need to activate Gram Sabhas in a mission mode for resolving disputes, supervisining land acquition and assess the impact and delimitation of villages.

New Delhi: The Global Campaign on Making Cities Resilient was launched here today with the call to make South Asian cities ready to face challenges of urban risk management with effective governance and urban planning. The campaign will be run with the close coordination of United Nation and Governments of the region and urban local bodies of the major cities.