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	August 5, 2011 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate Treatment of injured UN peacekeepers thwarted by Sudan Three UN peacekeepers wounded by a landmine in the Abyei region of Sudan died while waiting three hours for government permission to evacuate the soldiers by helicopter. "They prevented us from taking off by threatening to shoot at the helicopter," Alain Le Roy, the world body's undersecretary-general for peacekeeping, said Thursday. BBC (8/5), Reuters (8/5)      Neighbors seek tougher UN sanctions on Eritrea  Sen. Kerry makes the case for foreign aid  Refugees gather for UNHCR conference  Coleman reports on Youth Champion efforts  Seed bank preserves endangered plant species  UN in mobile boost for 3 million poor  Turkey selects new armed forces commanders  Career Center  Skip to a section:  United Nations | Spotlight: U.S.-UN relations | Health & Development | Women & Girls | Climate and Energy | Technology | Peacekeeping and Security Shoutout for the youth who are engaging and being a part of the conversation with Model UN! #unyouth" @unfoundation "The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) just released figures for July's arctic sea ice averages. The bad news: Last month's average arctic sea ice extent is the second-greatest loss of summer sea ice since satellite tracking began in 1979." UN Dispatch Neighbors seek tougher UN sanctions on Eritrea Ethiopia and Djibouti have called on the United Nations Security Council to impose additional sanctions on Eritrea's mining sector and remittances over the role Eritrean authorities allegedly played in a foiled January bomb attack on an African Union meeting. Eritrea's economy is heavily dependent on mining and money sent home to family members by Eritreans living elsewhere. Bloomberg (8/4)      Russia is singled out over UN response to Syrian crackdown Rights groups and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday criticized as inadequate the United Nations response to al-Assad's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests, with one activist characterizing the resistance by Russia to a resolution condemning the violence as "helping in the killing of Syrians." Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he has told al-Assad that he will meet a "sad fate" if he does not introduce reforms and stop the violence, which U.S. officials said has killed 2,000. USA TODAY (8/4), The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (8/4)        Other News Visit of UN chief to include Japan nuclear hotspot Google/Agence France-Presse (8/4)      UN questions natural gas processing near Australia reef The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)/Australian Associated Press (8/5)      Sen. Kerry makes the case for foreign aid U.S. Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says that American leaders must resist pressures to rein in foreign aid and development investment in light of the country's budget crisis. "Many question whether we can afford foreign aid and development investments, but the reality -- however hard to swallow -- is that we can't afford not to," he writes. The Washington Post (8/3)        Refugees gather for UNHCR conference Refugees now living in all 50 U.S. states have gathered in Washington, D.C., to attend the inaugural UNHCR Refugee Congress. Participants, who hail originally from countries including Somalia, Cuba and Myanmar, are sharing their individual stories and discussing reforms to existing refugee policies. The Huffington Post (8/4)      Logistical delays, rebels hamper Somali famine relief Somali women and children were teeming into refugee camps around the capital, Mogadishu, and in Dadaab, Kenya, while militants were stopping and forcibly recruiting men seeking to flee the country's drought-stricken regions. Aid groups said setbacks in procuring food aid and raising funds, however, were hampering the relief effort even more than Islamist al-Shabab rebels. The Telegraph (London) (8/5), The Guardian (London) (8/4), Google/Agence France-Presse (8/5)      Other News China warns coastal residents as typhoon approaches Google/Agence France-Presse (8/5)      Poverty, trauma stalk former trapped Chilean miners The Washington Post (8/4)      Coleman reports on Youth Champion efforts "High School Musical" actress Monique Coleman returned from six-month-long trip around the world as the United Nations' first ever Youth Champion and visited the United Nations Foundation headquarters to talk abut her journey. Coleman visited 24 countries to see how youth live in other places during her trip. The Examiner (Washington, D.C.)/Yeas & Nays blog (8/4)      Senegal child bride works to end practice Former teen bride Fatou Diakhate has become a community leader rallying against child marriage in Senegal, where an estimated 43% of girls are married before turning 18. Diakhate, who was married at 13 and bore 12 children, lobbies to convince village leaders to endorse an end to the practice. AlertNet (8/4)      Study tracks mental repercussions of gender violence Women who survive physical or sexual violence are eleven times more likely to face depression and other mental conditions than other women, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study calls for broader recognition of gender violence as a public health concern and public campaigns to counter violence against women. AlertNet/Reuters (8/5)      Seed bank preserves endangered plant species The Kew Millennium Seed Bank is working with 120 partners in 50 countries to collect and store plant seeds from 25% of the world's species by 2020. Conservationists warn 25% of the world's plant species -- between 60,000 to 100,000 species -- are in danger of extinction. The Christian Science Monitor (8/4)      Niger Delta oil damage needs decades, $1 billion to fix The environmental damage from oil spills in the small Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta could cost $1 billion to clean up over the course of some 30 years, according to a UN report released Thursday. The report highlights the health risks for residents from spills traced back to oil giant Royal Dutch Shell, which financed the report, and acknowledges primary responsibility. The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (8/5)      Other News Study: City bicycle-sharing plans reduce greenhouse-gas emissions AlertNet/Reuters (8/4)      World's largest shark refuge is planned for the western Pacific The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/Green blog (8/4)      UN in mobile boost for 3 million poor The United Nations and U.K.-based Movirtu Technology are combining to provide inexpensive mobile telephone numbers to 3 million poor people, primarily women in Africa and South America, in an effort to ease access to information and services in the realms of agriculture, banking and employment. Users can log in to their numbers, and associated services, from any cellphone. United Press International (8/4)      Mini device diagnoses diseases cheaply, accurately A new, credit-card-sized device can diagnose illnesses, such as HIV and syphilis, anywhere in the world -- affordably, and in less than 20 minutes. The microfluidic chip, or mChip, which was developed by an international team of scientists, already has been successfully field-tested in Rwanda. The Guardian (London)/Punctuated Equilibrium blog (8/3)      Turkey selects new armed forces commanders Turkish authorities appointed four new heads of the country's armed forces Thursday in an apparent bid to increase civilian control of Turkish affairs. The previous armed forces leaders resigned last week in what was broadly seen as frustration with continuing efforts by civilian authorities to prosecute officers allegedly involved in a plot to overthrow the government. 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