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	July 25, 2012 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate Money is the biggest obstacle to ending polio The endgame of the massive 24-year global effort to eradicate polio depends upon high immunization rates in all countries, not just the three in which the disease remains endemic -- Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, write Jay Winsten and Emily Serazin. While geopolitical issues continue to pose barriers to eliminating polio, the biggest challenge is a $945-million funding shortfall, or nearly half the original budget through 2013. The Wall Street Journal (7/24)      The challenge of cooking for 193 nations  Tobacco and the legacy of Zimbabwe land seizures  Experts: Climate change to lead to mass killing  Conflict more likely over disputed South China Sea  Career Center  Skip to a section:  United Nations | Health & Development | Climate and Energy | Peacekeeping and Security Thanks to everybody who has said #ImALLin against AIDS. Have you joined the fight for an #AIDS-free generation? http://unfoundation.org/AIDS" @unfoundation "Grameen Shakti is highly focused on ensuring that its solar home systems reach people in remote areas who otherwise wouldn't have access to electricity." UN Dispatch The challenge of cooking for 193 nations Above all, food must be fast, fresh and easy to eat when preparing meals for diplomats from the 193 member states of the United Nations, says Daryl Schembeck, chef to the UN in New York, and personal chef to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. "It can be difficult to have that broad appeal," Schembeck says. Daily News (New York)/Agence France-Presse (7/24)      Rush for consensus in run-up to arms treaty vote The draft of the global arms treaty slated to be voted upon Friday by the United Nations General Assembly is full of "more holes than a leaky bucket," said some observers, as diplomats scrambled to make changes, and reach consensus, in the waning days of monthlong negotiations. As it stands, the treaty would require the 193 UN member states to regulate the transfer of conventional arms and arms brokers, while controls over the export of munitions were still being debated. The Miami Herald/The Associated Press (free registration) (7/24), Reuters (7/24)      UN: Attack on Cote d'Ivoire camp was ethnically motivated The deadly attack Friday on a camp for internally displaced in Cote d'Ivoire was ethnically motivated, the United Nations said, echoing the postelection violence that recently brought the country to the brink of civil war. Residents of the Nahibly camp, some 5,000 of whom fled the attack, said Ivorian security forces and UN peacekeepers failed to protect them from the 300-strong mob, mostly young men armed with clubs and machetes. United Press International (7/24), Reuters (7/24)      Other News Drones are clogging the skies over Somalia, UN says The Washington Post (7/24)      Tobacco and the legacy of Zimbabwe land seizures The violent government seizure of large, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe nearly devastated the country's lucrative tobacco crop. More than a decade later, the collective tobacco harvest of small-scale black farmers is prompting some observers to reassess the legacy of the forced land redistribution. "[T]here are many myths that have taken hold -- that land reform has been an unmitigated disaster, that all the land has been taken over by cronies in the ruling party, that the whole thing has been a huge mess. It has not. Nor has it been a roaring success," says Ian Scoones of the University of Sussex. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (7/20)      For want of a water tank A short film depicts the trajectories of two primary schools in rural in Kenya -- one of which has a tank with which to collect rainwater and one of which does not. The differences are stark. Students at the school in Sajiloni spend less time fetching water, and more time on their studies. A student at the dry school in Nalepp says no water means no food in school: "We will not concentrate in class. We will feel hungry, so we will go home early." AlertNet/Climate Change (7/20)        Other News Science alone can't end HIV scourge, Elton John says: "We need love." Mail Guardian (South Africa) (7/24)      Capital flight from developing world twice external debt, data shows The Guardian (London)/Global Development blog (7/22)      Experts: Climate change to lead to mass killing Climate change is intensifying crises worldwide over scarce food, water and energy, increasing the likelihood of mass killings, even genocide, in coming years, Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale University, said at a meeting Tuesday of foreign policy experts at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. By 2030, about half of all people will live in areas of "severe water stress," said Chris Kojm, chairman of the U.S. National Intelligence Council. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (7/24)      Other News Parsing data to apportion blame for global warming ABC News/Nature and Environment blog (7/22)      Satellites reveal "unprecedented" Greenland ice melt BBC (7/25)      Self-driving cars reduce fuel use, emissions Yale Environment 360 (7/23)      Conflict more likely over disputed South China Sea The increasingly aggressive stances by China, Vietnam and the Philippines over claims to islands and energy resources in the South China Sea are not only ratcheting up tensions in the disputed waters, but could soon to lead to armed conflict, according to a report by the International Crisis Group. The waters are patrolled primarily by governments using civilian vessels. 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