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UN Voices New Alarm Over Abuses, Hunger In Darfur
Friday, 18 March 2005, 11:30 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies are voicing renewed alarm over human rights abuses and looming hunger in Sudan’s western Darfur region, where tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and almost 2 million forced from their homes in fighting between the ... More >>
$148 Million Needed To Run Afghan Elections
Friday, 18 March 2005, 11:28 am | United Nations
Afghanistan's electoral authorities need some $148 million in funding to ensure that national and local parliamentary elections scheduled for later this year are conducted fairly and transparently, the United Nations has told a donor conference in the capital ... More >>
Burundi Need 40 Per Cent More Emergency Food
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 11:38 am | United Nations
Burundi, recovering from a long civil conflict, will need 40 per cent more emergency food this year than last because bad weather has reduced farm output, doubling the prices of scarce staple foods, three United Nations agencies and the Government of ... More >>
European Plan Combats Deadly Family Child Abuse
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 8:55 am | United Nations
With family violence killing four children under the age of 14 each day in Europe, and many thousands more enduring years of abuse for every child who dies, the United Nations has launched a continent-wide campaign against the scourge, declaring that ... More >>
Kenya: Sixteen Children Slaughtered In Water Feud
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 8:46 am | United Nations
Appalled by the brutal slaughter of at least 16 children apparently caught up in clan clashes over water in a violence-riven area of northeast Kenya, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has voiced horror at the viciousness of an attack by guns, ... More >>
Cote D’ivoire: 13 Tortured People Die In Detention
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 8:45 am | United Nations
UN Mission In Cote D’ivoire Calls For Probe Into Deaths Of 13 People From Torture More >>
UN To Feed 600,000 Drought-Stricken Ugandans
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 8:42 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a six-month food relief operation for nearly 600,000 Ugandans suffering from drought in the northeastern region of Karamoja, an area that has been hit by drought every five years since 1980. More >>
Kosovo &Serbia Talks On Missing Persons Resume
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 8:36 am | United Nations
The United Nations administrator for Kosovo today welcomed the resumption of direct talks between Serbia and the province to resolve the issue of more than 3,000 people still missing five years after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) drove ... More >>
Aids Treatment Result In Developing Country Blocks
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 10:05 am | United Nations
More assistance is needed in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic and new ways must be found to compensate for the lack of trained people and the inadequate health infrastructure in many countries, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise ... More >>
UN Food Deliveries Rise In Darfur
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 9:13 am | United Nations
Despite attacks, theft and sabotage dogging its efforts to reach 2 million hungry people, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) delivered 1.6 million tons of food to the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan in February, a 34 per cent increase ... More >>
Yugoslavia: WarCrimes Tribunal Releases Indictment
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 9:12 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today handed down its final indictments, charging an ex-Interior Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and a police officer with war crimes that included murder and ... More >>
National Nutrition Plans Examined By UN
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 8:52 am | United Nations
With millions of young children around the world underfed, underweight and more vulnerable to fatal diseases, the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) has opened a review of ways to strengthen nutrition as a key element of national development ... More >>
Air Passenger Deaths Lowest In 60 Years
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 8:16 am | United Nations
Air passenger deaths from accidents in 2004 on scheduled services – excluding those caused by unlawful acts – were the lowest in 60 years, and less than half those of 2003, according to preliminary statistics released by the United Nations civil aviation ... More >>
International Cooperation To Curb Forest Fires
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 8:14 am | United Nations
With an average of 400 million to 500 million hectares burning each year from forest fires around the world, a United Nations ministerial meeting has pledged intensified international cooperation to address the problem, including its root causes. More >>
European Bank Accord To Settle Bosnia Refugees
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 8:13 am | United Nations
Some 850 people who, 10 years after the Dayton peace accords, have still not found a permanent solution to their displacement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, will quickly receive individual accommodation under a landmark agreement between the United Nations ... More >>
Outrage Voiced At Attack On Kosovo President
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 8:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations administrator for Kosovo today strongly condemned the explosive attack against President Ibrahim Rugova as an attack against the democratic institutions of the ethnically-divided province which the world body has run since 1999. More >>
Annan Meets Israeli Prime Minister In Jerusalem
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 11:59 am | United Nations
Arriving today in the Middle East for a series of meetings with leaders on both sides, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told reporters he looks forward to working with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ... More >>
UN: Counter-Terrorism Campaign Kicks Off New Phase
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 12:12 am | United Nations
Stepping up the war on terrorism, United Nations counter-terrorism experts today began their first on-site country visit, opening a new phase in the world body’s work to strengthen state capacity in fighting the scourge. More >>
WHO: Probe Of Bird Flu Cases Vital
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 12:11 am | United Nations
With Viet Nam confirming 10 more human cases of bird flu, bringing the total since mid-December to 24, 13 of them fatal, the United Nations health agency is stressing the critical need for full information to assess of the risks of a pandemic that ... More >>
Tsunami-Hit Counties Must Avoid Over-Fishing
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 12:09 am | United Nations
Reconstruction in the countries devastated by December’s Indian Ocean tsunami should restore the livelihoods of fishers and fish farmers but must prevent the plague of over-fishing, a United Nations-backed ministerial meeting has declared. More >>
