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Ministers Meet To Discuss Sanitation And Slums
Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 10:33 am | United Nations
Government ministers meet to decide policies needed to reach goals and targets on water, sanitation and slums More >>
Speedy Marburg Disease Diagnosis Vital - UN
Monday, 11 April 2005, 11:55 am | United Nations
With the toll from the largest, deadliest and most intense outbreak of Marburg fever on record steadily climbing in Angola, the United Nations health agency is focusing on the need for exceptionally precise diagnostic steps to prevent the spread of the ... More >>
Last UN Food Aid Arrives In China
Monday, 11 April 2005, 11:54 am | United Nations
A 25-year-long $1-billion United Nations aid programme for China that fed over 30 million people drew to a close today with the arrival of a final shipment of grain, and a senior UN official urged the world’s most populous country to now step up support ... More >>
Assembly President Pledges UN Reform Proposals
Monday, 11 April 2005, 12:25 am | United Nations
Addressing the conclusion of a three-day General Assembly meeting on Secretary-General Kofi Annan's sweeping reform package, the body's president has pledged all possible efforts to forge agreement among countries so that the proposals can be adopted when ... More >>
Georgian And Abkhaz Representatives Meet In Geneva
Monday, 11 April 2005, 12:23 am | United Nations
A United Nations-chaired high-level group reviewing the Georgian-Abkhaz peace process wrapped up two days of talks today in Geneva, welcoming the participation of both sides in the meeting as an indication of their commitment to a peaceful settlement ... More >>
Armed Militia Savagely Attack Darfur Village
Monday, 11 April 2005, 12:22 am | United Nations
United Nations and African Union representatives today condemned a “senseless and pre-meditated savage attack” Thursday on a town in the western Darfur area of Sudan by more than 350 armed militia while the Government dragged its heels in designating ... More >>
Shortage Cuts Food Rations In Darfur
Monday, 11 April 2005, 12:21 am | United Nations
With United Nations officials preparing for a donors’ conference next week to raise reconstruction funds for southern Sudan, the World Food Programme (WFP) today announced that a drastic shortage of money will force the agency to cut the rations of more ... More >>
UN Seeks Higher Media Profile Through Cannes Event
Monday, 11 April 2005, 12:20 am | United Nations
A 30-strong team of United Nations audio-visual professionals is heading to a major media forum next week in Cannes, France, to promote UN productions, expand television partnerships and highlight the global fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic. More >>
Former Serb Commander Charged By UN Tribunal
Monday, 11 April 2005, 12:18 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today revealed charges of crimes against humanity against an ex-Serbian military commander for his role in planning and carrying out the massacre in 1995 of 1,000 Bosnian Muslim men ... More >>
Annan Laudes Pope Uniter Of Diverse Peoples
Monday, 11 April 2005, 12:17 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican City today, praising the pontiff as “one of the greatest spiritual figures of our time” and joining hundreds of thousands of people gathered there in ... More >>
Annan Urges Myanmar To ‘Clarify Position’
Monday, 11 April 2005, 12:16 am | United Nations
Noting the recent decision by Myanmar’s Government to adjourn the country’s constitution-drafting convention, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged authorities, in light of their public commitments, to clarify their position with respect to the ... More >>
Ivorian Peace Pact Allows 15,000 Refugees Home
Monday, 11 April 2005, 12:15 am | United Nations
UN Agency Hopes New Ivorian Peace Pact Will Allow 15,000 Refugees To Go Home More >>
Barred Journalist Wins UNESCO Press Freedom Prize
Monday, 11 April 2005, 12:14 am | United Nations
A Chinese journalist, who was imprisoned for five months and has been barred from resuming his professional activities after publishing articles revealing the 2003 SARS epidemic and the case of death in a Guangzhou police station, has been awarded ... More >>
Report Shows Why Conflicts Occur In Forested Areas
Friday, 8 April 2005, 12:16 am | United Nations
Many of the world's violent conflicts take place in forested regions because insurgents can find hiding places and exploit valuable natural resources to fund their activities, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) says in its annual forest ... More >>
Treatment Crucial To Stopping Spread Of Hiv/Aids
Friday, 8 April 2005, 12:15 am | United Nations
Treatment Along With Prevention Crucial To Stopping Spread Of Hiv/Aids, Speaker To UN Panel Says More >>
Rains Fail For Fifth Year In Eritrea
Friday, 8 April 2005, 12:14 am | United Nations
Rains have failed for the fifth consecutive year in Eritrea, causing crop failure, drying out major pasturelands and increasing food insecurity, as the Horn of Africa country's most fertile land remains under landmines from its border war with Ethiopia, ... More >>
Nearly 7,000 Afghans Return Home
Friday, 8 April 2005, 12:13 am | United Nations
One month after resuming its voluntary repatriation programme of Afghans from Pakistan, the United Nations refugee agency reported today that nearly 7,000 people had returned home with its assistance, a number that should balloon to 400,000 by the end of the ... More >>
Violence Cause of HIV Spread Amongst Women
Friday, 8 April 2005, 12:12 am | United Nations
Presenting a report indicating how violence against women increases their risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, a United Nations expert told the UN Commission on Human Rights that the number of women living with the disease had increased in every region. More >>
UN Sets Up Probe Into Lebanese Ex-Premier's Murder
Friday, 8 April 2005, 12:10 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today voted unanimously to set up an international independent investigation Commission into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and called on all states and parties to cooperate fully. More >>
Angola: UN Appeals To Fight Deadly Marburg Disease
Friday, 8 April 2005, 12:09 am | United Nations
Faced in Angola with the largest, deadliest and most intense outbreak of Marburg disease ever recorded, and the first in an urban area, the United Nations today launched a three-month $3.5 million flash appeal to contain the rare but highly lethal haemorrhagic ... More >>
