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GA/SPD/440 Sixty-fourth General Assembly Fourth Committee 20th Meeting (PM) Speakers Cite Perverse Nature of Mines, Activated by Victims, Whether Civilians Or Combatants; Committee Postpones Action on Outer Space Draft, Pending Consensus The General Assembly, deeply alarmed by the number of mines…

The German government should immediately launch a credible, transparent investigation into a 4 September airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that killed scores of people, many of them civilians, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The German military said on Thursday that NATO's investigation…

GA/SPD/439 Sixty-fourth General Assembly Fourth Committee 19th Meeting (AM) Better Risk-Reduction Tools, Methods Slash Number of Casualties, But Injuries Emerge in Several Countries where None Were Previously Recorded Combined efforts by the United Nations, Governments, civil society and operational implementing partners…

Why is it necessary to have Community rules for the qualification and status of beneficiaries of international protection as well as common procedural rules for granting and withdrawing it? The Treaty establishing the European Community specifically requested the Council to adopt…

Today the European Commission adopted proposals to amend two existing legislative instruments of the Common European Asylum System: the Directive on qualification and status of persons in need of international protection and the Directive on asylum procedures. These amendments follow…

The recognition that there was a clear link between crime and conflict, and the fact that serious and organized crime was prevalent in many conflict areas was the basis for a new agreement between the United Nations and the…

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has praised a humanitarian organization committed to eradicating landmines worldwide for its efforts to turn minefields into agricultural land in Afghanistan. "Each mine cleared, each square metre rendered free of unexploded ordnance, helps to build a foundation for…

SG/SM/12551 This is the text of a message from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the third annual Roots of Peace "Harvest of Hope" programme in Greenwich, Connecticut, on 18 October 2009 (delivered by Under-Secretary-General Vijay Nambiar, Chef de Cabinet): It is…

Afghanistan's next government must urgently devote greater resources to building up to 6,000 new schools, training upwards of 5,000 new midwives and professionalizing the police force to improve the lives of ordinary Afghans, aid agencies working in Afghanistan said today. In…

As a group of fifteen national and international organizations focused on alleviating poverty, addressing humanitarian needs and helping individuals to access their basic rights, we are deeply concerned about the challenges facing many Afghans. While the recent electoral process was…