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News Archive
26.06.08
Progress in drug control is under threat, warns new UN drug agency report
26 June 2008, Vienna – The World Drug Report 2008, launched today by the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, shows that the recent stabilization in the world drugs market is under threat. A surge in opium and coca cultivation and the risk of higher drug use in developing countries threaten to undermine recent progress in drug control.
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26.06.08
We still have much work to do to reduce our vulnerability to drugs, says UN Secretary-General on the International Day against Drug Abuse
26 June 2008. New-York – Kyiv - Today UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon adressed the world community on the observance of the International Day against Drug-abuse and Illicit Trafficking. "Today, drugs continue to destroy lives, generate crime and threaten sustainable development..We still have much work to do to reduce our vulnerability to drugs", said UN Secretary-General.
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20.06.08
UN Secretary-General Message for World Refugee Day
20 June 2008. New-York
– Kyiv - Intolerance,
political breakdown and war have long, pernicious histories. Yet the fragility of political systems, the devolution
of societies into catastrophic violence have also provoked a humane reply, the
protection of those forced to flee their countries in escape from persecution. Granting asylum can be traced back thousands
of years and is one of the earliest hallmarks of civilization. Today, the principle is firmly recognized in
Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which this year marks
its 60th anniversary: “Everyone
has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.”
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12.06.08
Anyone can save a life: UN family members donate blood in Ukraine
12 June, 2008. Kyiv, Ukraine - Millions of people owe their lives to people they will never meet – people who donate their blood freely and without any reward. Just 400 ml. of donated blood can help save as many as three people’s lives. Today the UN Country Team in Ukraine has conducted UN Blood Drive on the eve of the World Blood Donor Day commemorated annually worldwide on June 14. To promote unpaid blood donation and to support the global movement encouraging regular blood donations, UN staff members decided to donate their blood in the Kyiv city hospital.
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11.06.08
June 12 - The World Day Against Child Labour
11 June, 2008. Kyiv, Ukraine - This year the World Day against Child Labour will be marked around the world with activities to raise awareness that Education is the right response to child labour.
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11.06.08
Parliament Hearings on observing rights of people with disabilities takes place in Ukraine
11 June 2008. Kyiv, Ukraine – The Hearings of the Parliament Committee on pensioners, veterans and people with disabilities take place today to address the issue of observing the rights of people with disabilities (PWD) in Ukraine. During this session the manual for parliamentarians “From exclusion to equality: ensuring rights of people with disabilities” was presented to over 300 MPs, government officials, human rights experts, journalists and people with disabilities. The Ukrainian version of this publication was produced by the UN office in Ukraine in cooperation with the National Assembly of People with Disabilities.
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10.06.08
UN General Assembly convenes high-level meeting on AIDS
10 June, 2008. Kyiv - New-York. The General Assembly 2008 High-level Meeting on AIDS is taking place at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 10 - 11 June. It will review progress made in implementing the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS. Ukraine will be represented by Minister of Health Vasyl Knyazevych.
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05.06.08
In Ukraine the winners of the national photography contest “Addressing Climate Change – Caring About Our Planet” get awards on the World Environment Day
5 June 2008. Kyiv, Ukraine. Today, on the World Environment Day, the opening of the exhibition and awarding ceremony of the national photography contest “Addressing Climate Change – Caring About Our Planet” take place in Kyiv. Over 980 Ukrainians submitted their photos taken in 45 countries all over the world to the photocontest that is conducted for the first time in Ukraine by the United Nations office in partnership with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and with support of the Olympus company.
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04.06.08
UN invites applications for Judges
5 June, 2008. The United Nations is in the process of establishing a new internal system for the administration of justice to resolve employment-related disputes in cases, for example, of discrimination, harassment, abuse of authority and retaliation for reporting misconduct. The applications for judges to be received by 21 July 2008.
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04.06.08
The Secretary-General Message for World Environment Day 2008
4 June 2008. New-York
– UN Secretary-General addressed world community
on the eve of World Environment Day. This Day’s slogan for 2008 is Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy.
Recognizing that climate change is becoming the defining issue of our era, Ban
Ki-moon is asking countries, companies and communities to focus on greenhouse
gas emissions and how to reduce them.
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