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West African Ex-Combatants Re-Integration Examined
Friday, 8 April 2005, 12:08 am | United Nations
Seeking to avoid renewed violence in West Africa, a United Nations-backed meeting tomorrow is set to look at new approaches to rehabilitating and re-integrating some 200,000 former combatants in the region. More >>
UN Human Rights Body Credibility At Stake
Friday, 8 April 2005, 12:06 am | United Nations
Speaking on the eleventh anniversary of the start of the Rwanda genocide and addressing the very human rights body he wants to replace, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today warned Member States that without reform of the United Nations human rights machinery ... More >>
Millions Of Maternal And Child Deaths Preventable
Friday, 8 April 2005, 12:05 am | United Nations
With more than half a million women dying in pregnancy or childbirth each year and nearly 11 million children succumbing annually before their fifth birthday, the United Nations system today devoted this year’s World Health Day to the hundreds of millions ... More >>
Iraq: UN Offers Help In Writing Constitution
Thursday, 7 April 2005, 11:21 am | United Nations
Congratulating Iraq's new President Jalal Talabani on his election today, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today stressed the need for national unity, a goal the United Nations has been seeking with redoubled resolve since elections in January, and pledged the ... More >>
Arab Wealth Sought To Boost Emergency Response
Thursday, 7 April 2005, 11:20 am | United Nations
Launching the latest United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) humanitarian report in the Arab world, the agency’s Deputy Executive Director has called on the donor community, Arab funds and humanitarian agencies to do more to maximize the region’s ... More >>
Nepal’s Maternal Deaths Rise
Thursday, 7 April 2005, 11:18 am | United Nations
As Nepal’s Maternal Deaths Rise, UN Calls On All Sides In Conflict To Respect Rights More >>
UN Soldiers Deployed To Côte D’ivoire Borders
Thursday, 7 April 2005, 11:17 am | United Nations
In a move to tighten the arms embargo that the United Nations Security Council has imposed on Côte d’Ivoire, the UN peacekeeping mission there was deployed near the frontiers with Liberia and Ghana for the first time and conducted inspections of ... More >>
Annan Mourns Death Of Prince Rainier III Of Monaco
Thursday, 7 April 2005, 11:15 am | United Nations
Mourning the death of Prince Rainier III of Monaco, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today paid tribute to the monarch as a man who had won the world’s respect. More >>
Pavarotti Sings For UN Causes
Thursday, 7 April 2005, 11:11 am | United Nations
Luciano Pavarotti, one of the most celebrated opera singers, will promote United Nations (UN) causes during his Worldwide Farewell Tour of more than 40 concerts this year and next, taking the world body’s humanitarian message to the four corners of ... More >>
Economy In Occupied Palestine Gloomy - UN
Thursday, 7 April 2005, 11:08 am | United Nations
Around half of the Palestinian population was living below the official poverty line last year, more than double the number in 2000, unemployment increased, and there is no hope for improvement unless guarded optimism on the political front is translated ... More >>
Recalling Holocaust Is Vital To Avoid Falling Back
Thursday, 7 April 2005, 11:06 am | United Nations
Sixty years after the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jewry and others still provides a powerful wake-up call to the world to speak out in the face of barbarism, or else risk encouraging through its passivity further acts of inhumanity, a senior ... More >>
UN Envoy For Iraq Seeks European Aid
Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 11:45 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy for Iraq has taken his efforts to help in the country’s rehabilitation to Europe, meeting with top officials to discuss increased political and reconstruction support for the new Government now being formed in Baghdad. More >>
Social Upheaval From Lack Of Reform In Arab States
Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 11:43 am | United Nations
Pressure for political change is intensifying within the Arab world and unless Arab governments move much more quickly towards reform they could face chaotic social upheaval and violence, according to a new United Nations-sponsored report released ... More >>
Northwest Colombia: 2000 People Flee Armed Groups
Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 11:41 am | United Nations
More than 2,000 people have fled their homes in a region of northwestern Colombia that was the site of a notorious church massacre three years ago, and thousands more are at grave risk of being displaced by fighting between irregular armed groups, ... More >>
Tanzania Closes Burundian Refugee Camp
Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 11:39 am | United Nations
Some 5,500 Burundian refugees in Tanzania will be relocated to another camp towards the end of this month as part of plans to consolidate camps amid the ongoing Burundi repatriation operation, the United Nations refugee agency said today. More >>
UN Gives List Of Darfur War Crimes Suspects To ICC
Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 11:38 am | United Nations
In a concerted effort to end "the culture of impunity," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) a sealed list of 51 names of people blamed for war crimes in the conflict between ... More >>
Marking Boundary Between Nigeria & Cameroon Resume
Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 11:36 am | United Nations
The work of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission marking the border between the two neighbours will resume after differences arising from Nigeria's decision to skip verification of the boundary line in a village were ironed out, the United Nations ... More >>
Annan Vows To Make UN More Accountable Transparent
Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 11:35 am | United Nations
With the United Nations being "hammered" daily by attacks alleging fraud and mismanagement in some of its key programmes, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today vowed to make the UN more accountable and transparent, and told staff that he wanted ... More >>
UN Continues Talks On Syrian Pullout From Lebanon
Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 11:34 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy seeking the withdrawal of thousands of Syrian troops from Lebanon continued his talks with Lebanese leaders in Beirut today, underlining the importance for the country's stability that free and fair elections be held by their ... More >>
Zimbabwe: Annan calls for constructive dialogue
Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 8:37 am | United Nations
Though noting the peaceful parliamentary voting last Thursday in Zimbabwe, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced concern that the balloting did not allay the opposition's sense "conditions were unfair." More >>
