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Ban asks Security Council to consider actions against
CAR United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling on the Security Council to consider
actions such as sanctions or creating a panel of experts to help curb
lawlessness in the Central African Republic. At least 1.6 million people in CAR
need humanitarian aid including food, water, shelter and health care. "This is
unacceptable. The plight of the people of the CAR must be brought to an end,"
Ban says. BBC (8/9), GlobalPost.com
(8/9)
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"If the
activities of her first week in office are any indication of how she will
approach her new job, Samantha Power has signaled strongly that she will be a US
Ambassador the United Nations cut from a different cloth than her
predecessors." UN Dispatch (8/12)
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UN asks people with disabilities to weigh in on disaster
plans The United
Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, along with UN Enable, WHO, UNICEF
and others, are surveying people with disabilities to find out how they deal
with disasters. The survey looks at the hazards and risks that affect people
with disabilities, as well as personal and national disaster plans. The results
of the survey, which will be used to shape the post-2015 development goals on
disaster risk reduction, will be announced on Oct. 13, which is the
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. SciDev.net (8/9)
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MDGs have improved health, income in sub-Saharan Africa, Jeffrey
Sachs says The Millennium
Development Goals have made measurable differences in sub-Saharan Africa in
terms of lowering poverty, raising GDP and reducing under-5 mortality, malaria
and maternal deaths, writes Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the MDGs. "The MDGs played an important role,
of course together with other factors, in helping to reverse these adverse
trends," Sachs writes. JeffSachs.org (8/6)
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