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Winner of the 2011 Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Silver Medal for coverage of climate change will report on the human dimensions of climate change in the developing world NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Award-winning MediaGlobal News - an independent news organization based at United Nations Headquarters in New York City - is proud to announce the online launch of UNEARTH News, a new and distinct voice reporting on the human dimensions of climate change,...

Selangor, Malaysia, Dec 5, 2012 - (ACN Newswire) - Rashila Ramli and colleagues from Universiti Kebangsaan in Malaysia have developed a model to improve human security in Southeast Asia. The so-called "Bangi approach to Human Security (BAGHUS)" is outlined in the latest edition of the Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities.Human security as promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1994, has seven dimensions; economic, environmental, political, food,...

CHICAGO, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Recognizing that people with disabilities have much to contribute to their communities and that identifying and eliminating obstacles and barriers to accessibility is essential to empowering people with disabilities to lead full and productive lives, Easter Seals commends the United Nations for its work on this International Day of Persons with Disabilities. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110401/MM76153LOGO) "To...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online An 11-day UN conference opens in Dubai today which will play host to some extensive debates from the world’s leaders as to how to govern the Internet. The goal is to update some rather outdated regulations to ensure each nation has similar access to the Internet. Some US tech companies — Google and Microsoft — as well as some US ambassadors are worried these regulations will signal the end of the “free and open” Internet of...

PATRAS, Greece, December 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Noesis Technologies announced today the immediate availability of its ITU-T G.729A compliant voice codec IP Core. The growth in wireless communication systems, cellular mobile radio and VoIP technology has created the imperative need for bandwidth efficient, high speed quality voice coding algorithms. The ITU-T G.729A CS-ACELP is a high speech quality, low-bit rate (8kbps) codec that has been proposed to meet the voice...

A Message from Dr. Carolyn Woo, President & CEO of Catholic Relief Services Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) November 30, 2012 "December 1 is World AIDS Day, a time when we pause to reflect on the ways in which the HIV pandemic has changed our world, when we celebrate the exciting progress made in the fight against HIV, while mourning the multitude of lives it has claimed. "Many challenges remain but this year we have good reason to be optimistic. Last week UNAIDS reported that Africa...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, today urged President Obama to "stay on the right side of history" by supporting yesterday's United Nations vote granting Palestine the status of a non-member observer state. In a letter to the president, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad wrote in part: "As a nation, we have historically supported the...

Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The year is shaping up to be a warm one. A report released by the World Meteorological Association (WMO), the provisional annual statement on the state of the global climate, highlights a warming trend experienced during the first 10 months of 2102. The organization finds that despite La Niña occurring early in the year temperatures were the ninth warmest annually since records began in 1850. La Niña is an ocean-atmosphere...

Equatorial Guinea joins the fight to end hunger in Africa MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have signed an agreement that calls for the FAO to invest US$3 million over three years to develop poultry farming in rural Equatorial Guinea. This investment is part of the government's efforts to develop the country's agricultural sector...

DELFT, The Netherlands, November 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The UNESCO-IHE Governing Board approved the plans to start preparation activities for the UNESCO-IHE Global Campus for Water & Development. The decision was made unanimously at the Board's annual meeting held on 22 November. The UNESCO-IHE Global Campus for Water & Development is an international UNESCO-IHE networking organization with education and research sites as well as nodes of excellence. The...