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MaximsNewsNetwork: 09 October 2009 - UNICEF: On her week-long visit to the Philippines, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman surveyed the damage done by Tropical Storm Ondoy, spoke with storm victims and met with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Tropical Storm Ondoy brought floodwaters of more than three feet to Santa Cruz village in greater Manila and residents are struggling to get their lives back to normal. UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Venemen visited Liberato Damian public school where some classes have resumed. Veneman brought books, just one component of the massive aid operation that UNICEF has launched to ensure that flood victims get essential services. SOUNDBITE (English) Ann M. Veneman UNICEF Executive Director: Its a very difficult situation but Im very pleased to see that the school is beginning to come back because its very important for children to get back into school because it brining a sense of normalcy back into their lives. Upstairs from classes, the school is home to families whose houses are still too flooded for them to live in. SOUNDBITE (English) Ann M. Veneman UNICEF Executive Director: Its never easy to go through a natural disaster like this. Its very difficult especially on the children and all of the families because they suffer so much and they have worked so hard for what they have. And so our sincere condolences to everyone and we hope that with hard work and chipping in from everyone that people can rebuild quickly. UNICEF has ...

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MaximsNewsNetwork: 23 July 2009 - UNTV: United Nations Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Minister of Equality of Spain, HE Ms. Bibiana Aido, following the meeting of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). (Spanish) MaximsNewsNetwork: News Network for the United Nations and the International Community. See: www.MaximsNews.com. "GIVING POWER & RESONANCE TO THE VOICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY"

US Ambassador Susan E. Rice comments to the UN press corps regarding the election today of the United States of America as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council. UN headquarters in New York: 12 May 2009.

MaximsNewsNetwork: (www.MaximsNews.com )United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR - 17 April 2012: Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) announced today in Geneva that actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie will take on a new and expanded role as a Special Envoy of its High Commissioner, António Guterres. Jolie's interest in humanitarian affairs was piqued in 2000 while filming in Cambodia. She soon began travelling to field operations with UNHCR and was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in 2001. Since then, according to UNHCR, she has carried out more than 40 field missions to some of the most remote regions of the world to highlight the plight of millions of uprooted people and to advocate for their protection, becoming an expert on the phenomenon of forced displacement and a tireless advocate on behalf of refugees According to a UNHCR spokesperson Jolie's status as Special Envoy is effective immediately, and she would focus on complex emergencies and work to facilitate lasting solutions for people displaced by conflict. (United Nations Refugee Agency: UNHCR ) ..... See: WorldLeadersTV & MaximsNewsNetwork: Angelina Jolie's Work with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR): www.maximsnews.com MaximsNewsNetwork®™ & WorldLeadersTelevision™ News Network for the United Nations and the International Community™ "GIVING POWER & RESONANCE TO THE VOICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY" ™ See: www.MaximsNews.com See www.WorldLeadersTV.com Internationally Accredited News ...

MaximsNews Network TV: US Ambassador to UN Susan E. Rice presents credentials to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

MaximsNewsNetwork: 30 July 2009 - UNTV: United Nations: US Ambassador Susan Rice and Senior White House Advisor Valerie B. Jarrett sign the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. US Ambassador Susan Rice accompanied by Senior White House Advisor Valerie B. Jarrett, today (30 July) added her signature to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Convention, which entered into force on 3 May 2008, is the first comprehensive human rights treaty of the 21st century and is the first human rights convention to be open for signature by regional integration organizations. Ambassador Rice said that this treaty further advances the human rights of the 650 million people with disabilities worldwide. If ratified by the US Senate, it will be the fourth major human rights treaty ever adopted by the United States. During his campaign, then-US Senator Barack Obama promised that if elected he would sign the Treaty. Jarrett said that President Obama took a bold step forward for our country by announcing last week that the United States would sign this extraordinary Convention. The Convention is intended as a human rights instrument with an explicit social development dimension. It adopts a broad categorization of persons with disabilities and reaffirms that all persons with all types of disabilities must enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms. MaximsNewsNetwork: News Network for the United Nations and the ...

UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 04 October 2011 -- Geneva - Angelina Jolie, the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, today (04 October) called for urgent help to help the people in Somalia and surrounding countries who are suffering from famine and in near-death conditions in a situation she called "the humanitarian crisis of a generation." In a speech to the leadership of the UN Refugee Agency in Geneva, Angelina Jolie said that humanitarian work "needs to scale up to meet the needs of these individuals" and warned that the level of world response will determine "whether a huge number of people live or die." Jolie and the Yemeni humanitarian aid group Society for Humanitarian Solidarity (SHS) were praised for their outstanding work to help the world's refugees over the past ten years; Jolie and the SHS founder and 290 staff of SHS received the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award for their live-saving work helping tens of thousands of desperate boat people on the coast of Yemen from the Horn of Africa. As she was speaking, news from Mogadishu, Somali's capital, reported that dozens were killed in a suicide bomb blast at a government ministry. The Hollywood actress spoke about the heroism of the SHS staff who "often risk their own lives, pulling people from the waves and the rough seas and working in extremely volatile security conditions." Angelina Jolie was recognized for completing 10 years as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, and the ...

MaximsNewsNetwork: 25 July 2010 - Jamaica - TheUnited Nations (UN) Office on Drugs and Crime reports that as technologies become ever more sophisticated, so do the modus operandi of criminals, who are increasingly using information and communication technologies to carry out illegal activities; here a US citizen falls victim to a lottery scam perpetrated in Jamaica. The violence, wealth and sophistication of Jamaican lottery rackets -- and their ability to reach beyond borders to ensnare American citizens -- has long been a concern to the United States Government Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS joined forces with Jamaican authorities to create JOLT -- Jamaican Operations Linked to Telemarketing.Vance Callendar, Attaché to the US Embassy in Kingston, was instrumental in carrying out the JOLT programme. He was also the primary liaison with Jamaican authorities. In June 2009 JOLT agents in Jamaica launched a raid in the Montego Bay area. Hundreds of cell phones, computer equipment, and digital phone cards were confiscated. Lottery fraud ringleaders were arrested. To date, 85 people have been apprehended and six indicted. JOLT has recovered over $750000 for victims, including $10000 for Maria. ..... ( UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION: UNTV ) ............. MaximsNewsNetwork: News Network for the United Nations and the International Community. See: www.MaximsNews.com. "GIVING POWER & RESONANCE TO THE VOICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ...

MaximsNewsNetwork: 26 April 2010 - UNAMID: Darfur, Sudan - Four South African peacekeepers kidnapped in South Sudan's Darfur region earlier this month were released on today (26 April), the Joint African Union-United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) in Darfur reported. Two men and two women from the mission were kidnapped on 11 April from the region's main town Nyala. A UN statement said Joint head of UNAMID, Ibrahim Gambari, held a meeting on Sunday with Sudan's President Omer Al-Bashir, who had "pledged to do everything possible to assist in bringing about the safe return of the UNAMID personnel." Following a medical examination the peacekeepers will be flown to their home country, where they will be reunited with their families. ........... ( AFRICAN UNION /UNITED NATIONS HYBRID MISSION IN DARFUR: UNAMID ) ........ MaximsNewsNetwork www.MaximsNews.com News Network for the United Nations and the International Community. See www.MaximsNews.com. "GIVING POWER & RESONANCE TO THE VOICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY" .....................................................