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WASHINGTON, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On 17 July 2012, the Iran Policy Committee (IPC) issued a press release. A State Department teleconference on 6 July 2012 prompted the release. Briefing the media were Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Ambassador Daniel Benjamin as well as Special Advisor to the Secretary on Camp Ashraf, Ambassador Daniel Fried. They briefed on the situation at Camp Ashraf, Iraq and the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) designation. Developments over the...

BRUSSELS, July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from Struan Stevenson MEP, President of European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Iraq: The EU, US and UN must intervene to force the Iraqi authorities to meet the basic humanitarian requirements of the residents of Camp Liberty. Currently the Iraqi Government has prevented the resolution of water and electricity problems, the transfer of passenger cars as well as vehicles and trailers for...

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- PRBA--The Rechargeable Battery Association announced today that the UN Sub-Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods unanimously approved two proposals on the packaging requirements for large format lithium ion batteries filed by jointly by PRBA and its international counterpart, RECHARGE. Large format lithium ion batteries are used as the power source for electric vehicles. The UN Sub-Committee's decisions will...

NEW YORK, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As the London Summit on Family Planning draws global attention to the need for expanding access to voluntary family planning and reproductive health services around the world, the MDG Health Alliance announces a new initiative that will build partnerships with a focus on financing and strategic advocacy around reproductive health and family planning. This effort - chaired by United Nations Foundation CEO, Kathy Calvin, and private sector...

CABOT, Vt., July 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Did you know more than one billion people worldwide are members of cooperatives? Did you also know that the domestic and international cooperative movement represents more than $1 trillion in revenues, and that if all the world's cooperatives were a country, it would be the size of Spain, and rank as the tenth largest Gross Domestic Product in the world? This economic activity is even more impressive because it is generated by people...

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT), with the support of the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MoICT), Jordan are organising the first UN-backed cross border cyber drill designed to test the Arab region’s cyber response capabilities and improve readiness and reaction in the event of a theoretical future cyber attack. The drill forms part of an ITU-IMPACT Arab region...

The United Nations General Assembly today adopted by consensus, the “International Day of Happiness.” New York, NY (PRWEB) June 28, 2012 The International Day of Happiness is a movement to promote happiness as a universal goal and aspiration in the lives of human beings around the world. A coalition led by Dr. Hamid Al-Bayati Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations, the International Day of Happiness is created in the spirit of the initiatives and other ongoing efforts...

NEW YORK, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A vile anti-Semitic speech by Iran's vice premier "is a startling reminder of the odious nature of this dangerous regime," said AJC Executive Director David Harris. "This Iranian government consistently has projected its hatred of Jews, threatened Israel's destruction, while aggressively pursuing nuclear-weapons capability." (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) Addressing the UN international drug conference...

RIO DE JANEIRO, 27 June 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mario Garnero, one of Brazil's leading entrepreneurs and sustainable development advocates, has joined the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF). The new compact hosted two major events at Rio+20. Founder and President of both Forum das Americas, a think-tank on hemispheric dialogue, and the United Nations Association-Brazil, Garnero was one of the guests at the first high-level session on "Sustainable, Inclusive Growth: The Way Forward from Rio+20...

West African Nation pledged to United Nations agreements on Climate Change, Biological Diversity and Desertification at the UN Rio+20 Conference MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Equatorial Guinea's President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, made a push, last week at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, for his country and the rest of the African continent to adopt specific measures for the implementation of...