UN updates

• UNHCR cites "significant shortcomings" of Australia's asylum-seekers plan
• Food insecurity to increase by 2023, USDA says
• India could benefit from better weather forecasting, disaster prevention
• Details emerge on charges against Morsi as protesters take to the streets
• Yeo: Senate shows backbone in funding international priorities, including new Mali peacekeeping mission
• UN Radio
• The United Nations refugee agency is "troubled" by Australia's decision to send asylum seekers arriving by boat to Papua New Guinea, citing "significant shortcomings" in the plan. "We're concerned that the net effect of the measures is that for all intents and purposes Australia ceases to be an asylum country under the convention for anybody coming to the country other than by air," says UNHCR's Richard Towle. ABC (Australia) (7/26), The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (7/26)

  
  
  • Ban urges Egyptian government to free Morsi, other leaders
    Daily News Egypt (7/26)
  • UNDP's Helen Clark on why post-2015 goals are so important
    The Guardian (London) (7/25) 
  • UN begins "Free & Equal" LGBT public education campaign
  • Washington Blade (Washington, D.C.) (7/26)
    WFP airlifts food to displaced people in South Sudan
  • Thomson Reuters Foundation (7/25)
    U.S. House Appropriations Committee votes to cut UN program funding
  • ForeignPolicy.com/The Cable blog (7/25)
    
    
  • Experts release conclusions on Haiti cholera epidemic
    BBC (7/25)