Link: Global Food Security Update - Issue 8, October 2012

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Appoints Six Special Procedures, Establishes Voluntary Technical Assistance Trust Fund, and Concludes Nineteenth Session

23 March 2012

The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its nineteenth session after adopting 16 texts concerning, among others, technical assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Haiti, Yemen, Guinea and Libya, and establishing a Voluntary Technical Assistance Trust Fund. The Council also appointed six Special Procedures.

By Chris Niles

NEW YORK, USA, 9 January 2012 – A quality education is the cornerstone of every child’s rights, yet across the developing world millions of children’s futures are stunted because they don’t have the opportunity to learn.

VIDEO: UNICEF correspondent Chris Niles reports on an innovative programme in which older children prepare pre-schoolers to enter primary school.

In Yemen, ongoing fighting in the northern Saada region between the government and Houthi-led rebels spilled across the country's border when the rebels launched an incursion into the Jebel Dukhan area of neighbouring Saudi Arabia on 3 November. Saudi forces responded with a major offensive to force rebels back from their southern border

1.1 The Public Service Agreement (PSA) framework has changed for the period 2008-11. Thirty PSAs now reflect a collective set of the UK government's priorities.

1.2 The Department for International Development (DFID) is the lead department on PSA 29: Reduce poverty in poorer countries through quicker progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report presents the first summary of progress against this PSA.

1.3 DFID is also delivery partner on PSA 27: Lead the global effort to avoid dangerous climate change (led by