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LEADING ITEMS
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BULK OF EMITTERS SUBMIT PLEDGES TO UN CONVENTION – Climate Change
WFP SCALES-UP FOOD AID TO HAITI EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS – Health & Means
BILL CLINTON TO LEAD ONGOING INTERNATIONAL AID FOR HAITI – UN & Agencies
HAITI: UN ESTABLISHES CHILD PROTECTION BODY
Unaccompanied children in Haiti, including orphans and those sent by parents to live with more affluent relatives or strangers, run greater risk of being abducted, enslaved, sold or trafficked due to increased insecurity: UN expert – Human Rights
UN FIND CHALLENGES ISRAELI VERSION OF ATTACK IN GAZA WAR
Israeli report defending the military's conduct in the Gaza war is challenged after evidence emerges apparently contradicting a key finding – UN & Agencies
42M FORCIBLY DISPLACED BUT LESS THAN 1% SEEK REGUGE IN OCEANIA
There are about 42 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, but despite increases in this region, less than one per cent of the world’s refugees come to Oceania – UN & Agencies
$25M PROMISED TO WOO TALIBAN INSURGENTS
Australia will contribute $100 million more in aid to Afghanistan, including $25 million to a fund to lure insurgents to the Afghan Government's side – Peace & Security
SOMALI VIOLENCE UPROOTS 80 000 IN JANUARY ALONE: UNHCR
UN refugee agency reports sharp rise in violence in Somalia in January leaving nearly 260 civilians dead, uprooting over 80,000 and widespread destruction – Energy & Environment
IRAN ‘READY TO SEND ENRICHED URANIUM OVERSEAS’ – Peace & Security
US DEFENDS WEAPONS SALE TO TAIWAN – Peace & Security
RUSSIA SUPPLIES LIBYA WITH ARMS – Peace & Security
CLIMATE CHANGE COUNTDOWN
Australia’s Chief Scientist Penny Sackett, in March 2009, said the world had only six years to radically lower emissions or face calamitous, unstoppable global warming.
A weekly UNity CLIMATE CHANGE COUNTDOWN monitors time passing.
This week there are 270 weeks left in which to radically lower emissions.
