* Ten dead, 14 wounded in north Yemen clashes

* Rebels blame government, say actions threaten peace

(Adds new killings, paragraph 5)

By Mohammed Ghobari

SANAA, June 1 (Reuters) - Ten people were killed in clashes between Shi'ite rebels and government-allied tribesmen in north Yemen, rebel and tribal sources said on Tuesday, in violence that could undermine the region's uneasy four-month truce.

Yemen's government agreed a February truce with the Houthi rebels, named after their leaders' clan, to halt

- Food access is difficult for poor households, due to high and volatile prices.

- Armed clashes continue to affect food security conditions, while concerned agencies have major problems reaching population in need of assistance.

- An estimated 7.2 million are reported food insecure with concerned agencies highlighting a severe and alarming problem of hunger in the long term.

- UN agencies do not have sufficient funding to assist the population.

* Yemen tribes reconcile with gov't over air strike

* Tribesmen allow government to repair oil pipeline

SANAA, May 28 (Reuters) - Separatists ambushed two convoys of Yemen's armed forces, killing three soldiers and wounding 11 others, the Defence Ministry website said on Friday.

Separately, the Yemeni government reached an agreement with the kinsmen of a mediator killed in a pre-dawn air strike earlier this week, after a series of clashes with Yemeni armed forces, a government official told Reuters.

Launching Amnesty International Report 2010: State of the World's Human Rights, which documents abuses in 159 countries, the organization said that powerful governments are blocking advances in international justice by standing above the law on human rights, shielding allies from criticism and acting only when politically convenient.

"Repression and injustice are flourishing

* Tribesmen renew attack on oil pipeline

* Yemeni tribe, government agree truce which expires Friday

* Tribe wants those responsible for airstrike put on trial

(Adds new pipeline attack)

By Mohammed Ghobari

SANAA, May 27 (Reuters) - Kinsmen of a Yemeni mediator killed in an errant airstrike targeting al Qaeda blew up an oil pipeline on Thursday in the second such attack this week, a government official said.

The airstrike has provoked clashes between tribesmen and the army, stoking instability in Yemen, which is a focus

Contact:
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Hafed Al-Ghwell: (202) 473-8930, halghwell@worldbank.org

WASHINGTON, May 25, 2010 - The World Bank is providing US$ 22.00 million equivalent for the Yemen Integrated Urban Development project to improve access to basic services in select informal settlements in urban areas in Taiz Governorate, and strengthen dialogue on a national framework for urban upgrading.

The proposed project contributes to the strategic objectives of the recently approved World Bank Urban and Local

25 May 2010

The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened it fifty-fourth session, hearing an address by Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted its agenda and programme of work for the session, and a new Committee member, Azza El-Ashmawy, took the solemn oath.

Ms. Pillay noted that today marked the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The official commemoration would

The present report has been prepared pursuant to General Assembly resolution 46/182, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report annually to the Assembly and the Economic and Social Council on the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance. The report is also submitted in response to General Assembly resolutions 63/147 and 64/76 and Economic and Social Council resolution 2009/3.

The report describes the major humanitarian trends and challenges over the past year and analyses two thematic issues