GenevaLunch » UNDP http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Timor-Leste’s slow political recovery embracing larger grouphttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/timor-lestes-slow-political-recovery-embracing-larger-group/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/timor-lestes-slow-political-recovery-embracing-larger-group/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 11:10:27 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69802 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Timor-Leste, widely known as East Timor, is slowly but surely making a recovery from the 1975-1999 independence battle that left it badly scarred. The Geneva-based UN Development Programme this week issued photos taken in the Ainero district, which has remote areas that are difficult to reach, showing women voting for the first [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/timor-lestes-slow-political-recovery-embracing-larger-group/feed/ 0 Côte d’Ivoire refugees: number growinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/11/cote-divoire-refugees-number-growing/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/11/cote-divoire-refugees-number-growing/#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:43:54 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=53872 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The numbers of refugees fleeing to five neighbouring countries from Côte d’Ivoire continue to swell as the unresolved political crisis drags on following the December presidential election standoff. The International Organization for Migration reports that “nearly 82,000 people have either been displaced within or outside of Côte d’Ivoire since the crisis [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/11/cote-divoire-refugees-number-growing/feed/ 2 Armed violence a costly impediment to developmenthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/12/armed-violence-a-costly-impediment-to-development/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/12/armed-violence-a-costly-impediment-to-development/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 14:50:03 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=41839 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Each year almost half a million people die as a result of armed violence not related to war, while an additional 250,000 die in armed conflicts. Add to these figures the fact that 60% of homicides in the world involve small arms and light weapons and you can see why armed [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/12/armed-violence-a-costly-impediment-to-development/feed/ 0 Geneva aid groups seek Haiti children’s family tieshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/01/geneva-aid-groups-seek-haiti-childrens-family-ties/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/01/geneva-aid-groups-seek-haiti-childrens-family-ties/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:42:49 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=36272 GenevaLunch.com Geneva UN and Red Cross groups work on sanitation, health problems Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The arrest of 10 Americans accompanying a busload of children being illegally carried out of Haiti and into the Dominican Republic 30 January by a US religious organization has raised fears that children may be separated from members of their [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/01/geneva-aid-groups-seek-haiti-childrens-family-ties/feed/ 3 WMO says early warning of extreme weather does save liveshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/14/wmo-says-early-warning-of-extreme-weather-does-save-lives/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/14/wmo-says-early-warning-of-extreme-weather-does-save-lives/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:10:31 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=29782 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Eight countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus and five in Southeast Asia are implementing early warning systems to protect against weather-related events, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Today 14 October is International  Day for Disaster Reduction, and the agency is highlighting how early warning and disaster risk reduction [...]

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