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To millions across the globe, Africa is synonymous with hunger, disease, aids, despots and conflicts. China, India and other Asian countries suffered same stereotyping until few decades ago when they started the current economic transformation through rapid industralisation and international trade. Africa is cautiously on the tails of the Asian Tigers. The continent is quietly [...]
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The United Nations World Trade Organisation (UNWTO) believes that supporting tourism may be the way to boost the global economy. According to UNWTO Assistant Secretary-General Geoffrey Lipman, tourism is “resisting the worst that the deterioration of the market place is delivering” but the sector will need to show governments how crucial it is to the [...]
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Representatives from the global travel and tourism industry have united to support MassiveGood, a global health initiative created by the Millennium Foundation for Innovative Finance for Health. “We pledge, by supporting this initiative, to encourage our industry to help raise funds to treat the sick in the poorest of our world’s countries,” announced the coalition [...]
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday addressed the United Nations to suggest that inclusive collaboration such as the G20 could be used to solve global crises such as the recent economic downturn. Critical of the UN for its inability to respond to the crisis, Rudd said by comparison the G20 governments “have rallied to reduce the [...]
...read moreThe United Nations Security Council will employ a softer approach to its response regarding unofficial Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s recent sentence. Earlier this week, the ruling junta sentenced Suu Kyi to an additional 18 months of house arrest following a trial over contact she had with an American man who swam to her [...]
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Unofficial Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi was yesterday sentenced to 18 months home detention following a trial involving accidental contact she had with an American man who swam to her lakeside home earlier this year. Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Stephen Smith has condemned the sentencing under Burma’s Law Protecting the State Against the [...]
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The United Nations has come under fire for seeming to legitimise disputed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after UN chief Ban Ki-moon sent a letter of congratulations to Ahmadinejad to commemorate the latter’s inauguration. Weeks of protests followed Ahmadinejad’s re-election in June, with rivals claiming the vote was rigged. The election was expected to be closely [...]
...read moreGenerosity in the current global recession is alive and well, with the United Nations announcing record levels of aid funding compared with previous appeals. UN Humanitarian Affairs head John Holmes says donor countries have contributed US$4.6 billion of the US$9.5 billion target for this year. In previous years, funding has been as low as 23 [...]
...read moreThe world is doing well to reduce poverty but the global recession is still a threat to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the United Nations. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals Report 2009 shows that while we’ve done a lot to reduce the number of people in extreme poverty, the global economic downturn may [...]
...read moreCoinciding with a visit by Kenya’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Moses Wetang’ula, Australia has stepped up its commitment to combating piracy in Africa, particularly in the Gulf of Aden region. Minister for Foreign Affairs Stephen Smith says Australia has pledged $500,000 to the Joint European Commission United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Counter [...]
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