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1. INDONESIA #21: FOKUS FOKUS KITA
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2. UNESCO Executive Director encourages girls in Afghanistan
   Throngs of girls welcomed UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova to Afghanistan on 18 May as she began an official three-day visit to the country. After visiting a school and meeting with the minister of education, the Director-General commented on girls' education in Afghanistan. UN meeting looks at ways to reduce disaster risk and build resilience Private [...]
3. UN human rights chief concerned about annulment of guilty verdict for genocide in Guatemala
   The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has expressed concern about the right of victims of genocide to obtain remedies in Guatemala. This follows the ruling of the Constitutional Court of the Central American country annulling the guilty verdict of Efrain Rios Montt, the former military leader convicted of genocide against the [...]
4. Youngsters lobby for countries to implement Children's Charter on Disaster Risk Reduction
   Children from disaster-prone regions in Africa, Asia and Europe have a message for the world: listen to us. At a UN forum in Geneva this week, they called for countries to implement a strategy aimed at keeping children safe before, during and after disasters. The Children's Charter for Disaster Risk Reduction covers five areas which [...]
5. UNFPA pushes to end obstetric fistula
   Obstetric fistula is an injury caused by prolonged obstructive labour during childbirth which leaves women incontinent, ashamed and ostracized from their communities.  Gerry Adams sat down with Dr. Babatounde Osotimehin, head of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), to find out more about this condition which affects approximately two million women worldwide. Secretary-General campaigns to end [...]
6. UN chief commends Rwanda's commitment to empowering women and girls
   Rwanda has been commended for its commitment to the empowerment of women and girls. The praise came from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a statement to reporters in the capital, Kigali on Friday as he continued his visit to Africa with the President of the World Bank. He said Rwanda has made remarkable progress [...]
7. UN experts call for an end to caste-based discrimination in Asia
   United Nations human rights experts are calling for more effort to protect an estimated 260 million people in South Asia who are victims of caste-based discrimination. The experts say the victims, commonly referred to as the Dalits, are treated as “untouchables” and occupy the lowest levels of strict, hierarchical caste systems founded on notions of [...]
8. One in five children gets a school meal every day: WFP
   About one out of every five school children gets a meal at school every day, according to a new report launched Friday in Rome. The State of School Feeding Worldwide report was launched by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), providing for the first time a global picture and analysis of school feeding programmes [...]
9. Displaced Syrians blocked from fleeing to Jordan
   Thousands of displaced Syrians are being prevented from crossing the border into Jordan, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The agency says over the past week only about seven Syrians have managed to cross the border into the Za’atari camp compared to at least 2,000 Syrians who have been crossing the border daily since [...]
10. Secretary-General expresses hope about new DRC accord
    • The UN Secretary-General is hopeful about peace finally coming to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ban Ki-moon is on a five-country tour in Africa and while in the DRC on Wednesday, he expressed optimism about a framework agreement signed earlier this year by 11 African countries. However, Mr. Ban remains concerned about [...]