Thalif Deen: MDG’s Fund Boosts Food Security

By Thalif Deen — ROME  –  Since its founding in 2007 to help developing nations fight poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease and gender discrimination, the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund (MDG-F) has financed about 130 joint programmes in 50 countries.
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“One Voice” on Syria is still Missing at the U.N.

By Erol Avdovic UNITED NATIONS —  Talking on Syria again, it looked like everybody did its own job, UN secretary general, American and Russian envoy as well, jet what had to be the primary task – speaking with the one voice of International community on this world’s hot spot  – at the UN is stil [...]

First Identity Victim of Bosnian Administration

(Webpublicapress/New York) – Several thousand people gathered outside the Bosnian parliament in Sarajevo on Sunday and placed dozens of lighted candles, children’s toys and flowers at a silent commemoration for baby Berina Hamidovic, who died last week after vital medical treatment was delayed by the ID dispute.
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Erdogan wants to be Heard from Balkans to Asia

(Webpublicapress/New York) – According to Turkish Today’s Zaman website in Istanbul Prime Minister Erdogan delivered a passionate speech  full with numbers and facts about Turkish advance in past ten years. Bosnian media reported that Mr. Erdogan wanted his speech to be heard in Sarajevo, Skopje (Gostivar – city in west part of the Republic of [...]

Small Farmers Strongly Hit by Climate Changes

By Thalif Deen – ROME,  (IPS) - The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has long warned that a quarter of the world’s farmland is “highly degraded”.
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Food Security Central to UN’s Post-2015 Agenda

By Thalif Deen — ROME, (IPS) - As the United Nations prepares to launch an ambitious post-2015 development agenda later this year, the message from one of its Rome-based agencies is unequivocal: the eradication of hunger and malnutrition should remain a high priority when the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) end in 2015.
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MDG: Is 2015 Realistic for Poverty Eradication

By Thalif Deen — UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – With less than three years before a 2015 deadline, the developing world is largely expected to miss one of the U.N.’s key Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger.

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Referendum Offered for Istanbul’s Taksim Park

(Webpublicapress/New York) – Turkey’s government on Wednesday offered a first concrete gesture aimed at ending nearly two weeks of street protests, proposing a referendum on a development project in İstanbul that triggered demonstrations that have become the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s 10-year tenure.

Protesters expressed doubts about the offer, however, and continued [...]

Protests Democracy Referendum

(Webpublicapress/New York) – The world is concerned about protests in Turkey: In New York - the United Nations spokesperson said that the Secretary-General is following developments there. He said that the Secretary-General appeals for calm and stresses the importance of addressing differences through dialogue.  Protests should be peaceful and the right to assembly and the freedom of [...]

Samantha Power – Doing by Right and by Might

By Muhamed Sacirbey – The U.S. Ambassador to the UN first has to represent their government, and then perhaps their own personal views and ideals may come into play. Samantha Power, the new U.S. designee as Permanent Representative (Ambassador) to the United Nations, is credited with a broad range of award-winning articles and books, particularly [...]