PRESS RELEASE Geneva, May 20, 2009 — Sri Lankan health minister Nimal Siripala De Silva, elected president of this week’s annual session of the World Health Organization,
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As it does every year, the UN’s annual World Health Assembly met last week in Geneva and decided to single out one of its 192
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The Quartet (comprising the United States, European Union, Russia, and the United Nations) has formally released the “Performance-Based Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution
The UN’s Rome Conference has overwhelmingly adopted a Statute that will create an International Criminal Court (ICC). This paves the way for the world’s first
The new head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has reportedly asked all senior management to submit letters of resignation. Analysis: Readers will recall that
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