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CBS News Sri Lanka to open refugee camps ahead of polls Reuters COLOMBO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Saturday it will allow greater freedom of movement to refugees held in military-guarded camps from next month, after...
21 November 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the Government decision to allow greater freedom of movement to Sri Lankans sheltering in makeshift camps in the north of the country. There were more than...
BEIJING, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- A total of 927 media organizations from 83 countries and areas have joined the 24-hour global campaign to promote children's rights, which ended Saturday. The campaign, also called the "Global News...
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday welcomed Sri Lanka's decision to grant more free movement to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and also hailed the government's move to release...
DAVID STRINGER November 22, 2009 - The University of East Anglia, in eastern England, said in a statement on Saturday that the hackers had entered the server and stolen data at its Climatic Research Unit, a leading global...
Updated on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 14:41 IST Tags:Sri Lanka, displaced refugees Vavuniya (Sri Lanka): Sri Lanka said on Saturday it plans to let war-displaced civilians move freely in and out of internment camps ahead of...
By Ravi Nessman Associated Press Posted: Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 Arun Kumar, center, 13, returns from school to the children's shelter where he lives in New Delhi on Tuesday. NEW DELHI Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents,...
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (IPS) - A special U.N. summit of world leaders, scheduled to take place next year, is expected to make "a final push" to help reach the world body's widely-touted development goals by the targeted date of...
NEW YORK, USA, 20 November 2009 – Today at the United Nations, UNICEF and its partners commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the ground-breaking human rights covenant that...
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has become the most widely accepted human rights treaty in history, but 20 years after its adoption, much more remains to be done to turn its promises into reality for millions...
