PRESS RELEASEThe World Business and Development Awards today, 2 February 2012, launched a call for nominations for successful business initiatives that are in line with the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. All organisations, regardless of size or location, engaged in innovative business models that are delivering both commercial success and helping improve social, economic and environmental conditions are eligible to apply online by 25th March 2012 by downloading the form at ­­www.worldbusinessawards.net/nominate.

PRESS RELEASEBangkok, 19 January 2012—New analysis from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), based on case studies from across Asia and the Pacific, calls for a set of “energy plus” services – one that combines access to modern energy for heating, cooking and electricity, with measures that generate cash, supplement incomes and improve health and education.Issued the same week as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a global campaign to provide Sustainable Energy for All, the UNDP report confirms that there can be no development without energy, and that poverty cannot be addressed sustainably without paying due attention to energy services. The report adds that the poor need energy to get out of poverty, but energy alone is not enough. 

PRESS RELEASEPHNOM PENH, November 28 - The existence of anti-personnel mines in developing countries can thwart development progress, said the UN’s development chief Helen Clark yesterday in Phnom Penh at opening of the international conference on landmines. (click here for full speech)

PRESS RELEASEPhnom Penh, 27 October 2011 - The United Nations announced at a meeting with the Prime Minister today that it will provide USD $4 million in flood relief and rehabilitation efforts.

PRESS RELEASEPHNOM PENH, 20 October 2011: H.E. Dr. Ing Kantha Phavi, Minister of Women’s Affairs, today called for greater investment for women and girls to reduce inequalities between men and women in Cambodia.