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	April 30, 2012 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate Environmental officials reach deals at Clean Energy Ministerial A group of energy and environment ministers from 22 countries and the European Union reached many agreements on energy efficiency at the Clean Energy Ministerial meetings last week. Commitments included agreements to share technology, to finance a competition to develop low-energy televisions and to bring energy-efficient lighting to 2 million people in India by the end of 2015. The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/Green blog (4/27)      Chief UN monitor urges Syrians to deter violence  Kenyans push U.S. to free up unspent AIDS funds  New Malawi president aims to empower women  Secret Africa land grabs revealed in new database  Kony's army, pressured, said to be showing cracks  Skip to a section:  United Nations | Health & Development | Women & Girls | Climate and Energy | Peacekeeping and Security |  Monday is #JazzDay -- From its roots in slavery, jazz has raised a passionate voice against all forms of oppression http://j.mp/IiQjGr" @UN "The fact that this crisis has produced hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced; their lack of access to food or medicine; and the dire living conditions of besieged populations is less frequently cited in commentary and blog posts than the outright human rights abuses that we hear about on a daily basis." UN Dispatch Chief UN monitor urges Syrians to deter violence The top UN cease-fire monitor in Syria, Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, said that while even 1,000 unarmed observers would be unable to stop the violence altogether in the country, the world body's 300-strong mission "can make a difference." The government and opposition were blaming each other for what has emerged as a bloody stalemate. BBC (4/29), The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (4/28), Reuters (4/29)        UN's Ban praises Myanmar, urges end to sanctions UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a historic address to Myanmar's fledgling parliament, praised the country's democratic reforms and asked Western powers to remove or suspend sanctions. Prior to Ban's speech Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her pro-democracy party ended a boycott of the legislative body over a clause in the oath of office, and President Thein Sein was pushing for a breakthrough in peace talks with ethnic rebel militias. Bloomberg Businessweek (4/30), BBC (4/30), Reuters (4/29)        Other News Sudanese army detains UN worker, 3 others The Telegraph (London) (4/29)      UN to mark today's International Jazz Day with concert The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (4/29)      UNDP-funded documentary, "Himalayan Meltdown," nets award Daily News (New York)/Indo-Asian News Service (4/23)      Kenyans push U.S. to free up unspent AIDS funds Some $500 million in U.S. funds intended to fight AIDS in Kenya are lingering, unspent, and activists want the money released to help treat the 1.5 million Kenyans infected with the virus with antiretroviral drugs. "It's a tragedy that money goes unused while Kenyans with HIV get sick and die because they don't receive treatment," said Jacque Wambui of the Kenyan branch of the Health Global Access Project. The Guardian (London) (4/27)      Other News Teen sisters are providing anti-malaria nets to Uganda The Huffington Post (4/29)      Red Cross doctor beheaded in southwestern Pakistan Mail Guardian Online (South Africa) (4/29)      Polio-stricken Pakistani makes prosthetic limbs for other victims The Express Tribune (Pakistan) (4/27)      New Malawi president aims to empower women Malawi's new president, Joyce Banda, the first female head of state in southern Africa, discusses in an interview how her experience in an abusive marriage spurred her efforts to advance women's rights. "I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women," she said. "If I fail, I will have failed all the women of the region. But for me to succeed, they all must rally around." The Guardian (London) (4/29)      Secret Africa land grabs revealed in new database A database launched last week shows that nearly 5% of the agricultural land in Africa has been purchased or leased by outside investors over the past decade, confirming reports of so-called land grabs made possible by secretive deals among governments, investors and speculators targeting the developing world. The data published by the Land Matrix project marks the first time a comprehensive list of international land deals has been collected and made public. The Guardian (London) (4/27)      Other News Koalas are seen as endangered in some regions of Australia BBC (4/29)      Peru enacts climate change plan in absence of global pact AlertNet/Reuters (4/26)      Kony's army, pressured, said to be showing cracks Six months after 100 elite U.S. troops joined the hunt for rebel Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army, the mission -- buttressed by thousands of Ugandan troops, and smaller forces from elsewhere in Central Africa -- is reportedly causing rebels to break up into smaller groups and hide. The Ugandan army said the Sudanese government is assisting Kony. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (4/29), The Wall Street Journal (4/30), BBC (4/30)      Sudan claims emergency powers amid S. Sudan clashes Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Sunday decreed a state of emergency along much of the country's border with South Sudan, paving the way for broad powers of arrest and special courts. While hostilities between the two countries ratcheted higher this month over cross-border incursions by armed groups, a lingering dispute over oil fees also is at the heart of tensions. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (4/29), The Guardian (London)/Poverty Matters blog (4/27)        Chen crisis could derail U.S.-China relations The U.S. government was reportedly trying to negotiate the safety of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, the blind human-rights activist who escaped house arrest last week and is suspected to be in protective custody at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Supporters of Chen were facing police detention days before a long-planned meeting of senior U.S. and Chinese leaders. 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