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UN Agency Shifts Gear To Aid Flood-Stricken
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 11:03 am | United Nations
After weeks of struggling to provide food to more than 100,000 snowbound Afghans, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is shifting gear in step with the weather to help tens of thousands of people now facing floods from melting snow and torrential ... More >>
Annan Urges Arabs To Support UN Reform Package
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 11:01 am | United Nations
Appealing for Arab support for his comprehensive package of United Nations reforms, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on an Arab League summit to take the lead in outlawing terrorism, above all in the occupied Palestinian territory, however ... More >>
Annan Arrives In Algeria To Attend Arab Summit
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 11:00 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived today in Algeria today to attend the Arab League summit and ask the leaders there to support the package of United Nations reforms that he presented Monday to the General Assembly in his report "In Larger Freedom." More >>
Afghanistan Will Need More Help To Build Future
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 10:58 am | United Nations
Afghanistan will need sustained international help way beyond September’s legislative elections marking the completion of the Bonn accord that set up the country’s transitional phase after the ouster of the Taliban regime in 2001, United Nations Secretary-General ... More >>
Salvaging Meulaboh’s land registry documents
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 10:56 am | United Nations
Meulaboh, Banda Aceh, March 23rd - UNDP has begun a project to rescue vital documents badly damaged by the tsunami which record land ownership in Meulaboh. More >>
Annan calls poverty, security & HR world deal
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 9:53 am | United Nations
20 March 2005 – In a new report released today, Secretary-General Kofi Annan put forward a comprehensive deal for tackling poverty, security threats and human rights abuses while overhauling the United Nations through a set of recommendations slated ... More >>
UK: The Inquiries Bill - the Wrong Answer
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 12:16 am | United Nations
Amnesty International British Irish rights watch The Committee on the Administration of Justice Human Rights First The Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association INQUEST JUSTICE Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada The Law Society of England ... More >>
Serbia & Montenegro: Failure to Fulfil Commitments
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 12:15 am | United Nations
Two years after joining the Council of Europe, Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) continues to ignore its obligations to implement key human rights commitments, notably in dealing with the legacy of war crimes and police torture and ill-treatment, Amnesty International ... More >>
Amnesty Welcomes Annan's Human Rights UN Report
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 12:14 am | United Nations
Amnesty International welcomes UN Secretary-General's bold steps to strengthen human rights in major new report More >>
Nuke Industry Needs To Market Strengths - IAEA
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 12:33 am | United Nations
With energy demand expected to double by mid-century and nuclear power adding, by lowest estimates, the equivalent of 127 more1,000-megawatt plants than earlier thought by 2020, the United Nations atomic watchdog today called on the nuclear industry ... More >>
Annan Urges Action On UN Reform
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 12:32 am | United Nations
Calling for action, not more words, to fulfil pledges already made, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today laid before the General Assembly his plan for United Nations reform, ranging from greater investment in developing countries, steps to fight catastrophic ... More >>
UN Marks Day Against Racism
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 12:30 am | United Nations
With warnings that the virus of racism is on the march around the world and urgent calls for a global assault on the scourge, with new proposals to strengthen human rights and panel sessions on overcoming hate crimes, the United Nations today marked ... More >>
More Than 500 Combatants Disarm In North Congo
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 12:24 am | United Nations
Some 500 fighters from a militia in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and 50 from another armed group have voluntarily disarmed in order to join the Disarmament and Community-based Reintegration process, the United Nations mission ... More >>
Dialogue In Kyrgyzstan, Deplores Violence
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 12:23 am | United Nations
With demonstrators in south Kyrgyzstan still protesting last month's election results in the Central Asian country, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today deplored violence and welcomed President Askar Akayev's proposal to begin a dialogue. More >>
UN Takes Donors On Trip Across Sudan
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 12:22 am | United Nations
International donors met in Khartoum, Sudan's capital, yesterday to share impressions gathered during a five-day field trip across Africa's largest country by seven teams as part of a United Nations inter-agency mission to give them an opportunity to see ... More >>
UN Chief Optimistic On Israeli-Palestinian
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 12:21 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that he had come back from visiting the Middle East last week with the impression that both Israelis and Palestinians feel optimistic over moves to end violence after more than four years of open conflict, ... More >>
Annan To Lobby World Leaders On UN Reform
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 12:08 am | United Nations
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is planning a full-court lobbying campaign, including plenty of personal telephone diplomacy, in a race against time to secure a large measure of support for his package of United Nations reforms by the time world leaders ... More >>
Pakistan Shrine Bombers Must Be Brought To Justice
Monday, 21 March 2005, 11:41 am | United Nations
Reacting with outrage to the deadly bomb attack in a shrine in Pakistan today, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the perpetrators should be held accountable for the crime. More >>
UN Peacekeeping Patrols Seize Weapons In Congo
Friday, 18 March 2005, 11:32 am | United Nations
United Nations peacekeepers seized weapons and ammunition in the northeastern Ituri region as they, backed by helicopter gun ships, conducted their regular cordon and search operations designed to force militias to flee, or reduce "their capacity ... More >>
Security Council Extends Life Of UN Sudan Mission
Friday, 18 March 2005, 11:31 am | United Nations
The Security Council voted today to extend the mandate of the United Nations Advance Mission in Sudan (UNAMIS) by a week – the second time it has done so this month – while its members discuss plans to set up a peacekeeping mission in the south of ... More >>
