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Margaret Besheer

Margaret Besheer has covered the United Nations for VOA since 2008.

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September 16, 2010
UN Appeals for $2 Billion for Pakistan Flood Victims

Ban Ki-moon says 14 million people will need assistance over the next year
September 15, 2010
Poverty, Conflicts, Center Stage at UN Annual Meeting

Millennium Development Goals - designed to reduce extreme poverty, hunger and disease by 2015 - will also be primary focus
September 15, 2010
UN: Thousands More Troops Needed to Contain Somali Violence

Envoy says force needs as many as 20,000 troops in coming months
September 08, 2010
UN Chief Urges Rwanda Not to Withdraw Sudan Peacekeepers

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon seeks to ease tensions with Rwanda's government over leaked UN report on acts of genocide in DRC
September 06, 2010
UN Official Says Peacekeepers 'Failed' Victims of DRC Rapes

Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Atul Khare says UN failed along with DRC government
August 12, 2010
UN Urges Burma to Free Political Prisoners Before Elections

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for inclusive, free and fair elections and for release of all political prisoners before November 7
August 10, 2010
UN Seeks $460 Million for Pakistan Flood Victims

UN humanitarian chief John Holmes says aid will enable UN agencies, other groups assist up to seven million people
July 22, 2010
AIDS Conference Wraps Up in Vienna

First African president takes helm of International AIDS Society
July 20, 2010
WHO Has New Advice to Prevent Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission

WHO releases new recommendations urging all HIV positive women to receive antiretroviral drugs to protect against transmitting the virus
July 05, 2010
Meeting the Queen: A Recollection

VOA correspondent Margaret Besheer recalls her childhood memories of Queen Elizabeth's visit to New York City in 1976
July 05, 2010
Queen Elizabeth Addresses UN General Assembly

British monarch last addressed United Nations 53 years ago
June 17, 2010
ICTY Prosecutor: Capture of Mladic, Hadzic 'Highest Priority'

Serge Brammertz told UN Security Council Serbian authorities have cooperated with court, but efforts to find them must be stepped up
June 13, 2010
UN Security Council Takes Up Cheonan Sinking

Pyongyang again denies allegations, saying it is 'a victim' of a 'fraud and forgery' perpetrated by Seoul
June 10, 2010
ICC Prosecutor: Crimes Continue Against Civilians in Darfur

Prosecutor tells the U.N. Security Council that rape and other such gender crimes remain unabated
June 08, 2010
UN Security Council Adopts Tough New Round of Iran Sanctions

Twelve nations in Council vote in favor of measure, Brazil and Turkey vote 'no,' Lebanon abstains
May 30, 2010
UN Security Council Holds Emergency Session on Israeli Raid

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu calls Israeli Defense Forces' actions 'tantamount to banditry and piracy'
May 27, 2010
NPT Conference Ends With Consensus on Final Document

Document lays out steps toward goal of nuclear disarmament, but does not set any deadlines
May 22, 2010
In Shanghai, Clinton Highlights US-China Trade Relations

US secretary of state makes comments on the eve of high-level economic and political talks in Beijing
May 17, 2010
US Presents Iran Sanctions Draft to Security Council

Draft is product of weeks of negotiation among five permanent veto-wielding members of council plus Germany
May 12, 2010
Countries with Questionable Records Elected to Human Rights Council

Human rights monitoring groups say several of new members have spotty records of their own, do not deserve a seat on human rights body

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