Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | More than half the world’s population does not use the internet, with prohibitive broadband costs keeping billions off line, a United Nations report said Tuesday. The UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said that 3.9 billion people do not have home or mobile internet access and …
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Job Opening Posting Title: PROGRAMME OFFICER Job Code Title: Programme Management Officer Department/Office: UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME Duty Station: NAIROBI Posting Period: 04 November 2016 – 02 January 2017 Job Opening Number: 16-Programme Management-UNEP-66007-R-Nairobi (X) Staffing Exercise N/A APPLY HERE Share on: WhatsApp
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United Nations, United States | AFP | A bid by African countries to delay the appointment of the first-ever UN expert on LGBT rights was defeated on Monday, clearing the way for the investigations of anti-gay violence. A draft resolution demanding talks on the legality of the new expert’s mandate …
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Windhoek, Namibia | AFP | The number of HIV-infected people taking anti-retroviral medicine has doubled in just five years, the UN said Monday, while highlighting high infection rates among young African women. A new report by UNAIDS said it was on course to hit a target of 30 million people …
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Marrakesh, Morocco | AFP | Diplomats from 197 nations wound down a two-week UN conference Friday which started drafting a blueprint for arresting global warming “well below” two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels. A rash of recent climate studies have highlighted the stakes. Record temperatures Earth is on …
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Marrakesh, Morocco | AFP | Fiji urged the United States Friday to “save” the world from climate change as it had helped to win World War II. “We in the Pacific, in common with the whole world, look to America for its leadership and for its engagement and assistance on …
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United Nations, United States | AFP | The United States on Friday proposed that South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar as well as the army chief and information minister face UN sanctions for their role in fueling violence in the war-torn country. The names of Machar, President Salva Kiir’s army …
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United Nations, United States | AFP | The United States on Thursday launched a bid at the Security Council to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan following UN warnings that the war-torn country could descend into genocide. US Ambassador Samantha Power said a draft resolution will be presented to …
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Job Opening Posting Title: Principal Security Adviser (D1) Job Code Title: CHIEF SECURITY ADVISER Department/Office: DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY AND SECURITY Duty Station: BAMAKO Posting Period: 05 November 2016 – 03 January 2017 Job Opening Number: 16-Security-DSS-63236-R-Bamako (X) Staffing Exercise N/A APPLY HERE Share on: WhatsApp
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Job Opening Posting Title: Human Settlements Officer Job Code Title: Programme Management Officer, Human Settlements Department/Office: UNITED NATIONS HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROGRAMME Duty Station: NAIROBI Posting Period: 07 November 2016 – 05 January 2017 Job Opening Number: 16-Human Settlements-UNHABITAT-66420-R-Nairobi (R) Staffing Exercise N/A Apply here Share on: WhatsApp
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