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Job creation critical for durable economic progress report tells Least Developed Countries

11/20/2013

Geneva 20 November 2013 The number of young people of working age in the world’s 49 poorest nations are increasing by 16 million per year and in each one of 11 such economies it will climb by at last half a million per year a new UNCTAD publication reports. The organization recommends that the goverments of the globe’s least developed countries intensify reports to employ this vast recourse- currently largely underemployed or trapped in venerable, low-paid jobs – to…

UN commission of inquiry: all parties becoming increasingly reckless with human life as the Syrian conflict drags on

02/27/2013

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Geneva, 18 February 2013 — In its latest report, released today, the UN commission of inquiry finds that both pro- and anti-Government forces have become increasingly violent and reckless with human life as the conflict draws to the close of its second year. It emphasizes the urgent need for parties to the conflict to commit to a political settlement to end the violence. Although the Government has yet to allow the commission to undertake investigations inside Syria, the 445…