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Samoa Becomes UN Labour Agency’s 178th Member
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 12:08 am | United Nations
The small South Pacific country of Samoa has become the 178th Member State of the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO), which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. More >>
Haiti: Ex-Fighters Lay Down Arms
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 12:01 am | United Nations
The United Nations today announced the start of the demobilization process in Haiti, where an initial batch of 325 former members of the country's armed forces laid down their arms in the capital, Port-au-Prince. More >>
UNICEF & Pro Tennis Raise Funds For Immunisation
Monday, 14 March 2005, 10:31 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is teaming up today with the ATP, the governing body of the men's professional tennis circuit, in a new global doubles to harness the power of tennis to help ensure the health, education and protection ... More >>
UN Envoy On Syrian Withdrawal From Lebanon
Monday, 14 March 2005, 10:22 pm | United Nations
The United Nations envoy seeking the withdrawal of some 14,000 Syrian troops from Lebanon today discussed full implementation of his mission with Jordanian Foreign Minister Hani al-Mulki as he prepared for his second series of talks in a month with ... More >>
Darfur: Failure To Advance Peace Process
Monday, 14 March 2005, 10:17 pm | United Nations
The Sudanese Government and the rebel groups in the country's troubled Darfur region made no serious attempt over the past month to find a political solution to their conflict, although they engaged in fewer violent clashes, according to the latest ... More >>
Senegal: Fighting Malaria With Bed Nets
Monday, 14 March 2005, 9:39 pm | United Nations
With malaria claiming the lives of 3,000 African children a day, three of Africa's most celebrated music stars - Youssou N'Dour and Baaba Maal of Senegal and Khaled of Algeria - will be among those performing this weekend at a concert partly sponsored ... More >>
UN Operation In Eastern DR Of Congo
Monday, 14 March 2005, 9:33 pm | United Nations
United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) carried out a cordon and search operation today in the Ituri district, located in the country's northeast and scene of recent clashes between militias who have also been attacking ... More >>
UN Ends Review Of Progress On Women's Rights
Monday, 14 March 2005, 9:29 pm | United Nations
Delegates to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) today ended a two-week review of the implementation of policies and plans produced by the last major UN conference on women 10 years ago in Beijing and called on Governments to ... More >>
Burundi: UNPeacekeeper Sexual Abuse Inquiry Begins
Monday, 14 March 2005, 11:39 am | United Nations
The United Nations, pursuing its zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeeping operations and mission personnel around the world, announced today that it was conducting an inquiry into alleged sexual abuse of minors by troops ... More >>
UN Welcomes UK/Africa Report On Corruption
Monday, 14 March 2005, 11:37 am | United Nations
The report from Prime Minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa will be an important addition to the ongoing search for solutions to "the foremost development challenge facing the international community," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan ... More >>
Committee On Elimination Of Racial Discrimination
Monday, 14 March 2005, 11:06 am | United Nations
GENEVA, 11 March (UN Information Service) -- The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its sixty-sixth session and issued its concluding observations on reports presented by the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, France, ... More >>
Senegalese General To Lead UN Forces In Congo
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 11:37 am | United Nations
A Senegalese general has been picked by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to command United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). More >>
Aid Needed For Ethiopia Polio Epidemic Spreads
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 8:51 am | United Nations
Ethiopian children urgently need protection from Sudan's polio epidemic, the United Nations agencies for public health and children said today in appealing for nearly $5 million for an immunization campaign against the paralyzing disease in April and ... More >>
SE Asia Sex Traffic Case UN Hails Stunning Success
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 8:47 am | United Nations
A United Nations initiative to fight sex trafficking in South Asia today hailed the first prosecution based on multilateral action as a “stunning success,” calling the 85-year prison sentence imposed by a Thai court on a Cambodian national for procuring ... More >>
Congo: UN Reports Resumption Of Aid
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 8:47 am | United Nations
Over 88,000 displaced people in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are receiving humanitarian aid again after a suspension forced by intensified fighting between ethnic militias, but the area remains tense and further disruption to aid ... More >>
Interim Tsunami Early Warning System Plan Progress
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 8:44 am | United Nations
In a bid to set up an immediate interim tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean, which experts believe could have saved scores of thousands of lives in last December’s disaster, a United Nations-sponsored meeting of experts has called on ... More >>
UN Call For Coordinated Action To Eliminate Aids
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 8:43 am | United Nations
In the wake of its report saying the world will need some $200 billion over the next 20 years to reverse the AIDS pandemic, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) joined three donor countries today in calling for coordinated global action to create ... More >>
Outlook In Darfur, Sudan, Remains Bleak
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 12:09 am | United Nations
Despite improved living conditions inside the massive camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs), the outlook for Sudan's war-torn Darfur region remains bleak overall and as many as four million people could need emergency food assistance by the middle ... More >>
The UN in Outer Space
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 5:55 pm | United Nations
Satellite-based disaster-management, virtual space doctors and the potential threat of an asteroid or meteor crashing into Earth were among key agenda items of the latest session of a United Nations panel on outer space. More >>
UNESCO condemns murder of journalist in Azerbaijan
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 5:52 pm | United Nations
Yet again stressing the vital need of a free press for democracy, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has condemned the murder of an Azeri journalist who had reportedly long been the subject of harassment and ... More >>
