http://www.the-united-nations.com News from the UN Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:23:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MANILA Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) - Warnings have been raised over food security in the Philippines as the El Niño phenomenon wreaks havoc across vast agricultural areas, leaving staple crops such as rice dying in parched earth, officials say. http://www.the-united-nations.com/philippines-food-security-warnings-over-el-nino/ KABUL Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) - As the world marks International Women’s Day, ambivalence, impunity, weak law enforcement and corruption continue to undermine women’s rights in Afghanistan, despite a July 2009 law banning violence against women, rights activists say. http://www.the-united-nations.com/afghanistan-women%e2%80%99s-rights-trampled-despite-new-law/ A North Korean colonel tells how he shopped in Europe for his country's dictators' lavish lifestyles, in a new book. http://www.the-united-nations.com/european-shopping-sprees-for-north-korean-dictators/ A ski centre sets the record for the largest number of kilted skiers and snowboarders on a slope at the same time. http://www.the-united-nations.com/scots-set-world-record-for-number-of-skiers-wearing-kilts/ BOSASSO Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) - A long civil war, frequent droughts, unemployment and high food prices have led to an increase in the number of street children in Bosasso, the commercial capital of Somalia’s self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, with NGOs and government officials calling for urgent steps ... http://www.the-united-nations.com/somalia-poverty-pushes-bosasso-children-on-to-streets/ NAIROBI Friday, March 05, 2010 (IRIN) - Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly. This feature was launched on 18 July, but will display the latest, most popular items of today. http://www.the-united-nations.com/irin-todays-most-popular-irin-articles-6/ MBABANE Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) - The myriad crises afflicting Swaziland can only be solved with a holistic approach, not a piecemeal one, the World Food Programme (WFP) deputy executive director, Sheila Sisulu, said during a recent tour of the country. http://www.the-united-nations.com/swaziland-tackling-one-crisis-at-a-time-does-not-solve-all/ NAIROBI Friday, March 05, 2010 (IRIN) - Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly. This feature was launched on 18 July, but will display the latest, most popular items of today. http://www.the-united-nations.com/irin-todays-most-popular-irin-articles-5/ ABUJA Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) - Hundreds of people in the city of Jos, 350km northeast of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, have been buried in mass graves after machete-wielding intruders attacked residents at 3 a.m. (local time) on 7 March. http://www.the-united-nations.com/nigeria-more-mass-graves-dug-in-jos/ AP - Eurotunnel SA, the operator of the English Channel tunnel, on Tuesday blamed a fire last year in the undersea route between France and Britain for nearly wiping out its profit in 2009. http://www.the-united-nations.com/eurotunnel-net-profit-slumps-in-2009-ap/