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Israeli-Palestinian peace climate vastly improved
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 11:12 am | United Nations
22 February 2005 – The political climate between Israel and the Palestinians has vastly improved in the past month with hopes for progress towards peace rekindled, but possible action by Palestinian groups and the continuing hardships of daily life ... More >>
UN still plays vital role dealing with global ills
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 11:11 am | United Nations
22 February 2005 – Although buffeted in recent months by allegations of mismanagement, corruption and other scandals, the United Nations remains an organization indispensable to the international community’s ability to deal with worldwide problems such as ... More >>
UN peacekeepers in West Africa meet in Senegal
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 11:09 am | United Nations
22 February 2005 – The military chiefs of the three United Nations peacekeeping missions in West Africa met today in Dakar, Senegal, to share information and risk assessments. More >>
Nigeria: Fortnight of fistula correction by UN
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 11:07 am | United Nations
22 February 2005 – Forty-six women have undergone surgery in northern Nigeria to correct fistula, an obstetric injury that leads to incontinence and stigmatization, kicking off a two-week campaign sponsored in part by the United Nations population ... More >>
Lubbers Resigned To Avoid Media Pressure on UN
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 12:17 am | United Nations
UN's Top Refugee Chief Says He Resigned To Avoid Adding To Media Pressure On UN More >>
Haiti: Nearly 500 Prisoners Escaped From Prison
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 12:14 am | United Nations
Nearly 500 prisoners escaped during an “armed commando” attack on the national penitentiary in Haiti’s capital over the weekend, but the Haitian police joined in returning two jailed ministers from the government of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ... More >>
UN: Locust Outlook Improves In Northwest Africa
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 12:11 am | United Nations
With the desert locust situation continuing to improve in northwest Africa, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today that a swarm invasion of the region is not expected this spring because breeding failed to occur in northern ... More >>
World Must Address Racism To Prevent New Genocide
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 12:10 am | United Nations
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has opened its new session with an urgent call to address current manifestations of racism and xenophobia in order to prevent a recurrence of the terrible massacres that marked ... More >>
Lubbers resigns as UN refugee chief
Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 9:45 am | United Nations
Lubbers resigns as UN refugee chief; Annan says move is in best interest of UN agency More >>
Social Development Back At Centre Of UN Agenda,
Monday, 21 February 2005, 10:59 am | United Nations
Although the United Nations development agenda is still dominated by economics, the 10-year review of the World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen, Denmark, these past two weeks has brought social concerns back to a central position, a UN ... More >>
Asia & Africa: Impeding Rise Out Of Poverty
Monday, 21 February 2005, 10:38 am | United Nations
Inequality In Asia And Policy Gaps In Africa Impede Rise Out Of Poverty, UN Says More >>
Flight Of Civilians Caught In Colombian Fighting
Monday, 21 February 2005, 10:24 am | United Nations
Some 1,200 people in a region of northwestern Colombia that was the site of a church massacre two years ago have fled their homes in fear of impending clashes between various armed groups in the country’s decades-old civil war, and the numbers seem ... More >>
Over 1 Million Afghans To Return Home In Next 2yrs
Monday, 21 February 2005, 10:19 am | United Nations
Over 1 Million Afghans Likely To Return Home In Next Two Years - UN Refugee Head More >>
UN - Concern For Judicial Independence In Ecuador
Monday, 21 February 2005, 10:11 am | United Nations
Citing urgent concerns over judicial independence in Ecuador after a move by Congress to replace 27 of the 31 Supreme Court judges with magistrates of its own choosing and the resignation of the court’s president, a top United Nations legal expert today ... More >>
Annan condemns deadly mosque bombings in Iraq
Monday, 21 February 2005, 10:07 am | United Nations
18 February 2005 – Condemning the deadly mosque bombings that took place today during prayer in Baghdad, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed to Iraqis of all backgrounds to come together in rebuilding the country. More >>
Exclusion of groups at Myanmar national convention
Monday, 21 February 2005, 10:06 am | United Nations
18 February 2005 – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his regret that the national convention in Myanmar reconvened Thursday without the participation of the National League for Democracy (NLD) – the party of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi – ... More >>
Darfur: World must act, millions of lives at stake
Monday, 21 February 2005, 10:05 am | United Nations
World must act now on Darfur, with millions of lives at stake – UN relief chief More >>
UN: impunity in independence violence, Timor-Leste
Monday, 21 February 2005, 10:02 am | United Nations
18 February 2005 – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced the composition of an independent Commission of Experts to review the prosecution of serious human rights violations committed in 1999 in Timor-Leste after the former ... More >>
Annan urges efforts to solve crisis in Togo
Monday, 21 February 2005, 10:00 am | United Nations
Annan urges efforts to solve crisis in Togo after its suspension by West African group More >>
Egypt Exempts UN From New Suez Canal Surcharge
Friday, 18 February 2005, 10:49 am | United Nations
Ships carrying military equipment for United Nations peacekeeping operations in regions as far apart as Haiti and Burundi can pass through the Suez Canal without paying a new Egyptian 25 per cent surcharge, a UN spokesman said today. More >>
