UN teams with companies to track poverty; girls and education; Haiti progress

UN Wire
November 2, 2007
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TODAY'S HEADLINES

TOP STORY
* UN partners with tech companies to track anti-poverty progress
QUOTE OF THE DAY
* UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Read the full story.
BLOG ROUNDUP
* blog
UN RADIO
* radio
UNITED NATIONS
* Disarmament committee approves nuclear alert resolution
DEVELOPMENT HEALTH AND POVERTY
* Around world, girls making headway in education
* WHO ready to help China with health emergency plans
* India's lower caste clears country's human waste
* Editorial: World should aid African economic growth
* UN: Most children in Chad controversy not orphans
* Strauss-Kahn takes IMF helm, vows accelerated reforms
DEVELOPMENT ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
* Conservation concerns surround Gabon dam plan
* In South Africa, ecosystems change with the climate
* Eco warning over planned Tanzanian chemical plant
HUMAN RIGHTS
* Myanmar asks UN official to leave
* Mentally ill in China pushed to undergo brain surgery
* Group: Concern over Rwanda justice system, genocide trials
PEACE AND SECURITY
* Haiti rebounds with help of UN troops
* Darfur peace talks postponed over rebel absences
* U.S. optimistic North Korea soon nuclear free
* U.S. threatens another round of UN Iran sanctions

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