Second UNHCR airlift reaches Georgia; aid for 40,000 being distributed
GENEVA, August 15 (UNHCR) – Urgent supplies are on the ground for up to 40,000 people affected by the South Ossetia conflict as the UN refugee agency's second airlift arrived in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Thursday.
To date, a total of 66 tonnes of relief supplies have arrived in Tbilisi from UNHCR's central emergency stockpile in Dubai. Items such as tents, jerry cans, blankets, kitchen sets and jerry cans are being delivered to the neediest people in and around Tbilisi.
International Youth Day “Youth and climate change: time for action”
Message of Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UNFPA Executive Director
12 August 2008
On International Youth Day, let us recognize the potential of youth in tackling the greatest challenges of our times.
From eliminating extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV, young people are a dynamic force for positive change. They can contribute to the world’s efforts to overcome the threat of climate change, one of the defining challenges of our time.
UNAIDS announces winners of Red Ribbon Award 2008
Biennial global award celebrates outstanding community leadership
and action on AIDS
New York, 11 June 2008 - On the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) proudly announced the 25 winners of the Red Ribbon Award
2008.
Substantial increases in HIV prevention efforts producing results, but not enough to turn back the epidemic
New HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths declining — however AIDS epidemic not over in any part of the world
New York, 29 July 2008 – According to new data in the UNAIDS 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic there have been significant gains in preventing new HIV infections in a number of heavilyaffected countries. In Rwanda and Zimbabwe, changes in sexual behaviour have been followed by declines in the number of new HIV infections.
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ILO Moscow specialists will make a presentation on HIV/AIDS workplace prevention projects at the 17th International AIDS Conference
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Meeting of the national Inter-confessional Committee on AIDS
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St.Petersburg Inter-confessional Committee on AIDS meeting
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Special event dedicated to the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, to be jointly organized by the UNIC, the Mission of Komi Republic and the city office of Petchory. During the event, the opening of an art exhibition will take place; the exhibit puts on display the works of paintings and applied arts by the artists from Russia’s North
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UNDP staff will attend the Eighth Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, Alaska USA, addressing health and climate change issues in the Arctic, including adaptation to climate change.
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Ecological festival ‘Volcanoes of Kamchatka’, Kamchatka Krai. UNDP/GEF project ‘Demonstrating sustainable conservation of biological diversity in four protected areas of Russia’s Kamchatka Krai’
