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UN marks International Women’s Day
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 5:50 pm | United Nations
The United Nations today marked International Women’s Day throughout its many agencies and across its multiple front-line outposts around the world with calls for bolder action to promote gender equality and events ranging from a cancer prevention workshop ... More >>
UN Dep Sec Gen Talks With German Foreign Minister
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 11:39 am | United Nations
Deputy United Nations Secretary-General Louise Fréchette today held wide-ranging talks with German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer in Berlin and later addressed the Friedrich Ebert Institute, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary as an organization ... More >>
Annan Vows Middle East Peace
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 11:33 am | United Nations
Calling this a "moment of promise" in the search for Middle East peace, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today declared his determination that the United Nations will continue to work with the Palestinian Authority, the Government of Israel and ... More >>
UN General Assembly Seeks Ban On Human Cloning
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 10:31 am | United Nations
The United Nations General Assembly today approved a declaration calling on all UN Member States to ban all forms of human cloning, including cloning for medical treatment, as incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life. More >>
UN Holds Talks With Europeans Over Lebanon
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 9:34 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy seeking the withdrawal of some 14,000 Syrian troops from Lebanon held talks with European Union (EU) officials today in Brussels on his way to his second visit to the region in a month. More >>
Depleted fish stocks require recovery efforts
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 9:24 am | United Nations
New report on world fisheries and aquaculture presented to FAO Committee on Fisheries today 7 March 2005, Rome - Rebuilding depleted wild fish stocks is a "challenging necessity" says the newest edition of FAO's biennial report, The State of World ... More >>
WHO Researching Human Bird Flu Cases In Viet Nam
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 9:19 am | United Nations
With Viet Nam confirming four more human cases of bird flu, the United Nations health agency is gathering as much data as possible on each new case in efforts to pre-empt a human pandemic that in a worst case scenario could claim tens of millions of lives ... More >>
Kosovo After Premier Is Indicted For War Crimes
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 9:18 am | United Nations
The United Nations administrator for Kosovo today appealed for calm following the resignation of the ethnic Albanian Prime Minister after he was indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal for his role as a guerrilla commander in the 1998-99 fighting ... More >>
Child malnutrition rates in DPR of Korea decline
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 6:01 pm | United Nations
Malnutrition rates among children in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) – long hit by adverse weather and economic problems – have declined in the past two years but remain relatively high, and well-targeted international aid must be sustained, ... More >>
UN: Ethiopian supermodel new goodwill ambassador
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 5:59 pm | United Nations
With half a million women dying during childbirth each year and 11 million children never seeing their fifth birthday, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today appointed Ethiopian supermodel Liya Kebede to the post of Goodwill Ambassador ... More >>
Emphasis against sex abuse by UN peacekeers
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 5:53 pm | United Nations
Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette will head to Kosovo later this week to continue her tour of United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world to emphasize the world body's zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation and abuse. More >>
West Africa: respect for constitutional authority
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 5:51 pm | United Nations
With West Africa holding the African record for unconstitutional government tenure, including coups, a top United Nations envoy today called on the region's leaders to understand that power entails responsibilities to protect, care for and be accountable ... More >>
Annan concerned at ‘appalling’ state of Darfur
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 5:49 pm | United Nations
Concerned that the world is not moving fast enough to deal with the “appalling situation” in Sudan’s Darfur region, with reports of killing, rape and burning still flowing in, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today summoned Security Council members ... More >>
Need to expand UN presence in Somalia
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 5:47 pm | United Nations
Calling on United Nations Member States to support war-battered Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, the Security Council today said it would welcome an incrementally expanding role for the world body in the Horn of Africa country. More >>
UN Women's Text Adopted, US Backs Down On Abortion
Monday, 7 March 2005, 7:49 pm | United Nations
A United Nations women's rights committee has adopted a declaration reaffirming priorities set ten years ago at an international conference in Beijing after the United States delegation withdrew a proposed amendment to the text. More >>
UN Urges DPR Of Korea To Resume Six-Party Talks
Monday, 7 March 2005, 7:27 pm | United Nations
Declaring actions by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) a “serious challenge” to efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency has called on the country to resume at an early date, without ... More >>
Ecuador: Threats To Independent Judiciary
Monday, 7 March 2005, 7:21 pm | United Nations
The Government of Ecuador has agreed to move up to this month the visit by a top United Nations legal expert who is seeking to assess “the serious crisis” that “could irreversibly affect the independence of the judiciary” in the South American country. More >>
What Happened to Iraq's WMDs?
Monday, 7 March 2005, 6:53 pm | United Nations
About 90 of 353 sites in Iraq containing dual-use equipment and materials that can be used for either peaceful uses or acquiring weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) have been looted or razed, according to the latest report of the United Nations commission ... More >>
Private Industry Needs to Fight Drug Trafficking
Monday, 7 March 2005, 6:47 pm | United Nations
Private industry has a major role to play in fighting drug trafficking by supporting sustainable development in regions devastated by narcotics economies and preventing the movement of precursor chemicals, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs ... More >>
Annan: Nuclear Proliferation Threatens Every State
Monday, 7 March 2005, 6:37 pm | United Nations
Nuclear Proliferation Threatens Not Just Some States But All, Annan Says On Treaty's 35th Anniversary More >>
