“Six days of war turned into forty-six years of occupation,” said Richard Falk, his exasperation palpable as he addressed the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine pulled no punches in his plea for greater respect for those suffering in occupied territories,...

NEW YORK -- Today New York residents gathered at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem to walk for health. More than 50 people joined the “Health and Peace Walk” aimed to inspire people to follow the Indian peace icon Mahatma Gandhi who practiced walking everyday to maintain his health. Adults and children...

NEW YORK --The General Debate of the Second (Economic and Financial) Committee of the 65th session of the U.N. General Assembly took place in New York on October 4-5, 2010. The Committee is chaired by Ambassador Enkhsetseg Ochir, Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the UN.

NEW YORK - The U.N. General Assembly's Second Committee took up the following two sub-items, under agenda item 18 "Macroeconomic Policy Questions": 18(b), entitled "International Financial System and Development", and 18(c), entitled "External Debt Sustainability and Development".

The President urged the General Assembly body to prove their sincerity and support the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, while declaring that that the global economy has been “pulled back from the brink of a depression

Tajikistan is a strong supporter of the United Nations ‘International Decade of Action: Water for Life’ campaign, and an initiator of many U.N. water resolutions. Ambassador Aslov shed light on urgent water issues within his country - a mountainous region that is the source of 60 percent of the...

Professor Franklin J. McDonald, Advisor, Institute for Sustainable Development of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

NEW YORK -- On Thursday, October 14, 2010, the Second Committee of the General Assembly began its consideration of the Item 19, “Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development and the 2008 Doha Review Conference”.

The debate began with introductions by the Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (Mr. Thomas Stelzer), the Director-General for Communications and Information of UNESCO, and the Chief of the Science,...

The Secretary-General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Dr. Hamadoun I. Touré, gave an in-studio interview at the South-South News headquarters providing his insights on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Development.

On both days, as customary, following the introductions, statements were made by delegations, starting with the spokesmen for regional and special-interest groups, including: the Group of 77, the European Union, ASEAN, the African Union, the Arab Group, and individual delegations, including...