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"Between 50,000 and 600,000 innocent civilians have been killed in Iraq. Do we grieve for them the way we grieve for US and British soldiers? Of course not. And then we expect them to grieve for us."

Irish Times, 16/02/2007 During a visit to Dublin, Mr. El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

March 2007 Issue N° 8

Human Rights Council and Darfur

The gloves are off
A High-Level Mission on the human rights situation in Darfur presented a critical report 15 March, on the role of the Sudanese Government to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. In a separate development Secretary-General Ban Ki...
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The UN-EU Partnership

'Together our two Organizations have made a big difference in the lives of millions"
The United Nations and the European Union have made a tangible difference in the lives of millions of people worldwide but they can coordinate better how they fund development programmes to ensure a more efficient use of cash, UN Deputy Secretary-Gen...
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Kosovo
The word is out: independence! Security Council to decide the fate of Kosovo The UN Special Envoy for Kosovo has handed over his final proposal to the Security Council. In the report, independence is proposed as the only possible solution for the disputed Serbian province. Western countries fear that Russia will use its veto on the matter. “Independence is the only ... Read More

EU Summit

What is the difference between a football match and a European Summit?

Less than you think, says Paul Taylor of Reuters who compares covering a summit to coaching a football team…………..

The world’s largest press corps is in Brussels. Some one thousand plus correspondents roam the capital of the Belgian Federation, better known for language quarrels between French speaking Walloons and Dutch spe...
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Op-Ed by Louise Arbour

"Sexual violence has been under-reported and under-prosecuted"

The plight of victims of sexual attacks during conflict has come to the fore once again when last week, the International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor requested summons for two Sudanese connected with atrocities in Darfur. According to the Prosecutor, there is strong evidence pointing to the suspects’ responsibility for mass rape and othe...
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Ciné-ONU

Tears and applause as the UN comes to life for an enthusiastic Belgian audience

On 21 March UNRIC held its first screening of films about the UN.

CINE-ONU is an initiative aimed at anyone interested in learning more about the work of the UN and provided an opportunity for an audience of more than one hundred enthusiastic students to visit the UN Regional Information Centre in Brussels, to understand the work ...
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Human Rights Essay Competition
And the winner is. . . . . The results of the UN children's writing competition on Human Rights. More that 700 children from all over the world participated in the UN Children's Writing Contest on Human Rights and Poverty organized by the UN Department of Public Information in co-ordination with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva and th... Read More

Fact Sheet
Modern Forms of Slavery International Day for the Commemoration of the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade 25 March 2007 The commemoration of the 200^th anniversary of the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade also serves as a reminder that contemporary forms of slavery – such as human trafficking, forced prostitut... Read More