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Thai Tsunami Zone: Mother & Child Health Services
Friday, 25 February 2005, 11:52 am | United Nations
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today said it is restoring its health services, including HIV/AIDS prevention, in the coastal region of Thailand devastated by the December tsunami and also expanding its work into the communities of immigrants ... More >>
Further Talks On Forced Labour In Myanmar Canned
Friday, 25 February 2005, 11:47 am | United Nations
A high-level United Nations labour agency mission to Myanmar to look into allegations of the use of forced labour has called off further discussions because its visit did not include meetings necessary for it to successfully complete its mandate. More >>
Suspended Ex-UN Oil-For-Food Chief Seeks More Time
Friday, 25 February 2005, 11:40 am | United Nations
Benon Sevan, the former head of the United Nations Office of the Iraq Programme who was suspended following reports of impropriety in connection with the Oil-for-Food scheme, has asked for more time to answer the administrative charges against him, ... More >>
UN Intellectual Property Organization Courses
Friday, 25 February 2005, 11:37 am | United Nations
With disputes over rights to inventions, discoveries and traditional knowledge sometimes leading to expensive lawsuits, the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) prepares to accept new students next week for its online courses. More >>
Tsunami Destruction Nature-Friendly Reconstruction
Friday, 25 February 2005, 11:26 am | United Nations
The environmental devastation wrought by December’s Indian Ocean tsunami offers an opportunity to rebuild in a way that preserves natural resources for the benefit of the local communities who were hardest hit by the disaster, according to a new ... More >>
African: Industrialize, Sell Electricity To Europe
Friday, 25 February 2005, 11:11 am | United Nations
Plans to harness the mighty Congo River to eventually generate enough electricity not only to power Africa’s industrialization but also to sell to southern Europe via a Mediterranean connector are being drawn up by one of Africa’s biggest energy ... More >>
Landmark UN Tobacco-Control Treaty In Force Sunday
Friday, 25 February 2005, 11:01 am | United Nations
The United Nations global treaty to curb tobacco use, which now claims nearly 5 million lives a year and causes an estimated annual net loss of $200 billion in treatment and lost productivity, comes into force on Sunday with a host of tools to clamp down ... More >>
Kosovo's Final Status Could Be Decided this year
Friday, 25 February 2005, 10:58 am | United Nations
There are good chances that the process leading to talks on the final status of Kosovo could begin in the second half of this year but also risks that tensions could also rise in tandem, the top United Nations envoy administering the ethnically divided ... More >>
Iraq: Top UN Envoy Seeks Political Inclusiveness
Friday, 25 February 2005, 10:52 am | United Nations
Continuing his talks across the full political spectrum of Iraqi politics, the top United Nations envoy in the country today met with the man who had sought to be candidate for prime minister of the coalition that won a majority in national elections last ... More >>
Sudan: UN Peacekeeping Mission Will Top $1Billion
Friday, 25 February 2005, 10:47 am | United Nations
Cost Of UN Peacekeeping Mission In Southern Sudan Will Top $1 Billion In First Year More >>
Heavy Snowfalls: Food Airdropped to Afghans
Friday, 25 February 2005, 12:11 am | United Nations
Facing an unusually cold winter and heavy snowfalls in Afghanistan, leading to outbreaks of whooping cough, measles and pneumonia, road blockages and food shortages, United Nations agencies are using airdrops to get urgent supplies into some regions, where ... More >>
Lost African Professionals Must be Replaced
Friday, 25 February 2005, 12:06 am | United Nations
With Africa losing professionals to the brain drain and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, policy makers met today for a United Nations-sponsored workshop on using donor assistance more effectively to educate and train replacements. More >>
Death & Destruction: Avalanches In Jammu & Kashmir
Friday, 25 February 2005, 12:03 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his sadness at the loss of life and damage to property in Jammu and Kashmir caused by avalanches and heavy snows over the past two weeks. More >>
Lubbers Out As With Plea To “Turn The Page”
Friday, 25 February 2005, 12:01 am | United Nations
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Ruud Lubbers, who resigned on Sunday amid persistent controversy over allegations of sexual impropriety, bid an emotional goodbye to his 6,000 staff around the world today with a plea to turn ... More >>
Keep Nuclear Arms From Terrorists
Thursday, 24 February 2005, 10:19 am | United Nations
Multilateral control of the world’s civil nuclear fuel cycle is essential for curbing “burgeoning and alarmingly well organized nuclear supply networks” and preventing such materials from falling into the hands of terrorists, according to a report commissioned ... More >>
Progress in Timor-Leste But Foreign Help Crucial
Thursday, 24 February 2005, 10:14 am | United Nations
Although Timor-Leste has made progress in establishing state institutions, international assistance will be crucial for the country's long-term security and stability beyond the expiration in May of the current United Nations mission's mandate, Secretary-General ... More >>
Tsunami Must be Wake-Up Call, Like Titanic was
Thursday, 24 February 2005, 10:07 am | United Nations
December’s devastating Indian Ocean tsunami is as urgent a wake-up call for the world to get its already existing emergency communications systems in working order as the sinking of the Titanic was for instituting mandatory SOS monitoring a century ... More >>
Aid Vital To Stop Bird Flu Becoming Human Pandemic
Thursday, 24 February 2005, 9:57 am | United Nations
International aid, strict biosecurity measures throughout the poultry production chain and heightened public awareness are crucial to preventing bird flu, now rife in Asian countries, from mutating into a global influenza human pandemic, the United ... More >>
UN: None Of Needed Goals In Kosovo Fulfilled
Thursday, 24 February 2005, 9:42 am | United Nations
While noteworthy concrete steps have been taken in some areas in Kosovo, none of eight necessary standards have yet been fulfilled in moving the United-Nations-administered province forward towards final status talks, including building trust between majority ... More >>
UN - assessment missions for quake in central Iran
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 11:13 am | United Nations
22 February 2005 – United Nations agencies are organizing assessment missions to the area of central Iran where an earthquake killed and injured hundreds early today, and first staff reports said many villages had been destroyed, the weather was very ... More >>
