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Push Forward Ethiopia And Eritrea Dialogue
Thursday, 17 February 2005, 9:32 am | United Nations
Security Council Considers Asking For UN Envoy To Help Push Forward Ethiopia And Eritrea Dialogue More >>
AIDS Negating Improvements In Governance In Africa
Thursday, 17 February 2005, 12:13 am | United Nations
The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa is threatening to destroy national institutions and is killing members of some professions faster than their replacements can be trained, undercutting the improvements the continent has made in governance, the head of the ... More >>
More Work With Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee
Thursday, 17 February 2005, 12:10 am | United Nations
More States See Need To Work With Security Council's Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee, Panel Says More >>
Annan hopes Syrian troop withdrawal from Lebanon
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 1:19 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he hoped that there would be clear signs of a withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon within the next two months. More >>
Liberian refugees returning to area hardest-hit
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 1:17 pm | United Nations
In a vote of confidence for Liberia's peace process, refugees have begun returning home to Lofa county, the hardest-hit area during the West African country's 14-year civil war, with the largest-scale displacement, the United Nations refugee agency ... More >>
UN - Palestinian women experience major poverty
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 1:15 pm | United Nations
Palestinian women are suffering massively from malnutrition, especially when they are pregnant and nursing, and have high rates of poverty as widowed heads of household, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a new report to a UN women's ... More >>
After murder, UN underscores Lebanon's sovereignty
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 1:15 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today called on all parties to cooperate fully in the restoration of the territorial integrity, full sovereignty and political independence of Lebanon and in the fight against terrorism following the assassination yesterday ... More >>
Fréchette says UN to ensure best standards
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 1:12 pm | United Nations
The United Nations has already strengthened the professionalism and transparency of its procurement and internal oversight systems since the period described in an interim report critical of its management of the Iraqi Oil-for-Food programme and ... More >>
UN - Arrest Of 6 Peacekeepers for Sexual Assault
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 10:10 am | United Nations
UN Welcomes Morocco's Arrest Of 6 Of Its Peacekeepers For Sexual Assault In DR Of Congo More >>
UN Invited By Russian Authorities - Visit Chechnya
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 10:03 am | United Nations
The top United Nations human rights official has been invited by Russian authorities to visit Chechnya, where the Government is embroiled in a long-running war with separatists and where, according to a UN expert, the State is confronted with the challenge of ... More >>
US Football Stars Help UN Tsunami Relief Efforts
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 9:59 am | United Nations
Exchanging the manicured green of the football field for the tropical wasteland of tsunami-devastated Indonesia, two National Football League (NFL) players, quarterback Kurt Warner and wide receiver Amani Toomer of the New York Giants, are at the disaster’s ... More >>
UN - Possible War Crimes In Sudan's Darfur
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 10:25 am | United Nations
UN Rights Chief Prepares To Brief Security Council On Possible War Crimes In Sudan's Darfur More >>
Militias Clash In DR Of Congo, Kill 52 Civilians
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 10:22 am | United Nations
More than 50 people were killed and thousands displaced in the latest clashes between Lendu and Hema groups in the eastern district of Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the United Nations peacekeeping mission there. More >>
UN Officials On Blair's Africa Commission
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 10:20 am | United Nations
UN Officials On Blair's Africa Commission Will Push For More Assistance To Developing Countries More >>
'Brutal Murder' Of Former Lebanese Premier Hariri
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 10:18 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today condemned in the strongest terms the "brutal murder" of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and a number of others, and called on all Lebanese to exercise utmost restraint so as ... More >>
Appeals For Tsunami-Scale Aid For Africa’s Hungry
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 10:15 am | United Nations
With 22 million people in Africa desperately short of food and donations dropping, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called for the global community to respond to the continent’s hunger with the same commitment and compassion shown ... More >>
Bitter Harvest Of Darfur - Babies Born Of Rape
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 10:12 am | United Nations
Dozens of babies are being born in Darfur to mothers raped during the ongoing conflict in western Sudan and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is working to ensure that both mothers and children are not discriminated against, and have opportunities ... More >>
Economic Growth Spurs Only Marginal Jobs Growth
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 10:09 am | United Nations
With global employment improving only slightly in 2004 at a disappointing rate of 1.7 per cent despite robust economic growth, and unemployment decreasing by only two-tenths of a percentage point, job-stimulating policies are essential, the United ... More >>
Secretary-General Welcomes Iraqi Poll Results
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 10:04 am | United Nations
Secretary General Kofi Annan today welcomed the announcement of the results of Iraq's elections, in which the United Nations played an advisory and technical role, reiterating the world body's commitment to play a full part in the next stages in the transition ... More >>
Northern Pakistan: Flooding And Avalanches Hit
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 10:03 am | United Nations
With heavy snow causing avalanches, torrential rains bursting a dam and both killing at least 300 people in northern Pakistan, United Nations relief agencies were rushing aid supplies to the region. More >>
