In a region already considered the world's most water scarce and where, in many places, demand for water already outstrips supply, climate models are predicting a hotter, drier and less predictable climate in the Middle East. By redrawing maps of water availability, food security, disease prevalence, population distribution and coastal boundaries, climate change may hold serious implications for regional security.

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The 2010 Iraq Humanitarian Action Plan (IHAP) is a continuation of the inter-agency consolidated appeal process launched for Iraq in 2008 and expanded to Iraq and the Region in 2009. The 2010 IHAP is a joint humanitarian strategy for Iraq in 2010. It is not characterised as a consolidated appeal per se, in that it is not accompanied by detailed project proposals (although it is intended to facilitate fund-raising for humanitarian operations in the country).

Assemblée générale
Soixante-quatrième session
66e séance plénière - après-midi

Sur recommandation de sa Commission économique et financière (Deuxième Commission), l'Assemblée générale a adopté ce matin 41 résolutions dont trois qui n'avaient jamais fait l'objet de décision auparavant à savoir celles sur l'émancipation des pauvres par le droit, l'harmonie avec la « Terre nourricière » et la sécurité alimentaire.

La Commission a également recommandé à l'Assemblée les textes plus traditionnels comme ceux sur la nécessité

Sixth-fourth General Assembly
Plenary
66th Meeting (PM)

Taking 38 Development-related Actions, Members Pass First-ever Texts On Food Security, Legal Rights for Poor, Humankind's Relationship with Earth

In a bid to boost recovery from the global financial and economic crisis and tackle entrenched policy challenges to long-term growth, trade and sustainable development, the General Assembly today laid the groundwork for in-depth consideration of those issues by unanimously adopting -- out of 38 development-related actions put forward

The new funds represent a crucial response to the Agency's financial crisis, and will enable it to maintain the current high level of its educational activities throughout this school year, while

Special Coordinator Calls on Parties to Ensure Calm, Fulfil Road Map Obligations

Israel, the Palestinians and a revitalized diplomatic Quartet must do more in concert to avert a backward slide in peace efforts, Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, told the Security Council today.

"We are in a race against time to overcome the contradictions on the ground and the crisis of confidence between the parties, and move decisively towards a political end game,"

Center on International Cooperation

Introduction

Robust peacekeeping and, in particular, protection of civilians garnered significant attention in 2009. In January, the Australian and Uruguayan governments hosted a conference on civilian protection designed to convince wary member states. In November, the Security Council's open debate on protection of civilians in armed conflict considered the findings of an independent panel on implementing protection mandates. Looking ahead, the Council's mandate renewal for the UN Mission in the

Lebanon fears the planned withdrawal from Ghajar could seal the division of the village into a southern, Israeli-controlled part and a northern part under joint Lebanon-UN supervision.

Security sources said Wednesday's talks were expected to discuss water and electricity supplies. Ghajar obtains its water from Lebanon and gets electricity by power lines from Israel.

The sources said Lebanon had not yet

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Syria's foreign policy sits atop a mountain of apparent contradictions that have long bedevilled outsiders. Its self-proclaimed goal is peace with Israel, yet it has allied itself with partners vowed to Israel's destruction. It takes pride in being a bastion of secularism even as it makes common cause with Islamist movements. It simultaneously has backed Iraqi Sunni insurgents and a Lebanese Shiite armed group. The U.S. has wavered between different approaches in unsuccessful attempts