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Daily Living Conditions in Iraq Dismal: UN Survey
Friday, 13 May 2005, 11:00 am | United Nations
Daily living conditions in Iraq are dismal, with families suffering from intermittent water and electricity supply, chronic malnutrition among children and more illiterate young than ever before, a new report by the United Nations Development Programme ... More >>
UN Ag Loans Help Connect Indian Villages To Tech
Friday, 13 May 2005, 10:59 am | United Nations
UN Agriculture Loan Programme Helps Connect Indian Villages To Modern Technology New York, May 12 2005 11:00AM More >>
Seven UN Peacekeepers Injured in Ambush
Friday, 13 May 2005, 10:55 am | United Nations
Seven United Nations peacekeepers were injured today, one critically, when about 20 "armed elements" ambushed a convoy transporting 40 of them in the troubled Ituri district in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN peacekeeping ... More >>
Afghanistan - Explosive Device Thrown During Riot
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 11:14 am | United Nations
A student demonstration in Afghanistan's south turned violent, with demonstrators throwing stones and, at one point, tossing an explosive device into the United Nations compound and setting fire to a guard post outside the building, the UN mission there ... More >>
Young People Meet To Discuss UN Development Goals
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 10:58 am | United Nations
Young people from Latin America and the Caribbean gather tomorrow in south-east Brazil for a four-day meeting designed to find ways of overcoming poverty and violence and achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of targets ... More >>
Assembly Approves New Trade and Development Chief
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 10:57 am | United Nations
The United Nations General Assembly today confirmed Secretary-General Kofi Annan's choice to be head of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), former World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi. More >>
UN Officials Head To Sudan for Talks on AU Mission
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 10:55 am | United Nations
Senior United Nations officials are headed to Sudan to discuss ways the UN can help with the various peace processes underway, particularly the African Union (AU) mission in Darfur. More >>
New Deputy Appointed for UN Agency on HIV/AIDS
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 10:32 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations development official has been named the new deputy for the UN agency coordinating the world body’s efforts against HIV/AIDS. More >>
More Than 12 Million People in Forced Labour
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 10:27 am | United Nations
More than 12 million people are working in coercive, slavery-like conditions, but “many countries at present do not provide in their legislation for the specific offence of forced labour,” the United Nations labour agency says, calling for a new global ... More >>
Annan Commends Cameroon and Nigeria on Progress
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 10:26 am | United Nations
The Presidents of Cameroon and Nigeria, who have been implementing an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on a formerly disputed border, have agreed to work out a new programme of Nigerian troop withdrawal from the area and to protect the ... More >>
Study Sheds Light on Displaced in Columbia
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 10:24 am | United Nations
A long-running civil war in Colombia has forced millions of people from their homes, and a study compiled by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says they need more help than ever, especially those living in urban ... More >>
UNESCO To Host Donors' Conference for Culture
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 10:22 am | United Nations
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is set to host a donors' conference for cultural heritage in Kosovo, where 75 monuments are in need of urgent repair or restoration. More >>
27 Vietnamese Montagnards To Finland As Refugees
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 10:20 am | United Nations
The first group of Vietnamese Montagnards who trekked through jungle to north-eastern Cambodia were on their way to Finland today, after an orientation by United Nations refugee agency officials. More >>
Last Season Repatriation of Angolans From Zambia
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 10:19 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today started its last season of repatriating Angolans from Zambia, which has hosted Angolan refugees for more than three decades. More >>
Privatization of Property Driving Homelessness
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 12:01 am | United Nations
The growing privatization of property and increased land speculation were among the driving forces behind the 1.6 billion inadequately housed people across the world, including an estimated 100 million who are completely homeless, a United Nations ... More >>
Donors Urge Liberia's Govt To Fight Corruption
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 11:51 am | United Nations
Donors wrapping up a conference today in Denmark urged Liberia's transitional government to fight corruption and put in place better financial management systems, steps they said would enhance the credibility of the authorities in the West African country ... More >>
UN Concern About Rwandan Asylum Seekers in Burundi
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 11:08 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today expressed its concern over the fate of thousands of Rwandans who have fled to neighbouring Burundi fearing retribution from village courts set up to try people suspected of involvement in the 1994 genocide. More >>
Drought and Locusts Worsen Food Shortages
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 11:05 am | United Nations
Appealing for $11.4 million, the United Nations agricultural agency said today that last year’s drought and locust infestations have intensified food shortages in six Sahelian countries, pushing up prices and forcing herders to move into new locations ... More >>
UNICEF Ships Polio Vaccine To Yemen
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 11:04 am | United Nations
As Yemen geared up for an end-of-month nationwide campaign to immunize all children under 5 against a fast-moving paralytic poliovirus outbreak, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said it was shipping in 6 million doses of polio vaccine. More >>
Annan in Geneva, Meets Cameroon, Nigeria Leaders
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 11:02 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is in Geneva today, where he was scheduled to meet one-on-one with the leaders of Nigeria and Cameroon ahead of Wednesday's mini-summit on the work of a UN-led panel dealing with the two countries' boundary ... More >>
