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UNCHR Calls On Barbados Not To Execute Prisoner
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 9:59 am | United Nations
A United Nations human rights expert has called on Barbados not to execute a convicted prisoner whose execution is scheduled to taker place today, saying it would violate the Caribbean island’s international legal obligations. More >>
UN Helicopter Crashes In Côte D'Ivoire
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 9:57 am | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI) today reported that four of its personnel were injured when their helicopter crashed at Daloa, in the country's centre. More >>
Afghanistan: Jalalabad Disarmed UN Announces
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 9:55 am | United Nations
The Jalalabad region of Afghanistan has become the country's second to be disarmed, a United Nations spokesperson announced today. More >>
Serbian President To Show Belgrade Fosters Trust?
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 9:54 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Kosovo today urged the visiting Serbian President to send positive signals on Belgrade's readiness to build bridges of trust. More >>
European-US Work For Global Collective Security
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 9:52 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on officials gathered at a leading international forum in Germany to support efforts to strengthen the United Nations so that its system of collective security can better respond to changing conditions in the world. More >>
Aid To Kurds Stranded At Iraq-Jordan Border
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 9:39 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has managed to deliver food and relief supplies to 102 desperate Iranian Kurd refugees, including at least five pregnant women and a large number of children, who have been marooned for up to four weeks on the Iraqi-Jordanian ... More >>
UN Intensifies Efforts - DPR Of Korea
Monday, 14 February 2005, 10:45 am | United Nations
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) withdrawal from six-party talks on its nuclear weapons programme is "a very real bump in the road" and the United Nations is intensifying efforts to secure a resumption of negotiations ... More >>
Progress And Inaction In Fight Against Small Arms
Monday, 14 February 2005, 10:43 am | United Nations
The Security Council has made great strides in its efforts to enable countries to trace illicit small arms and light weapons, but the interaction between the Council and the General Assembly on some designated programmes needs more coordination, United ... More >>
Cancelling Africa’s Debt Centre Stage, G-7 Meeting
Monday, 14 February 2005, 10:40 am | United Nations
Cancelling Africa’s Debt Must Take Centre Stage At G-7 Meeting In July, UN Envoy Says More >>
UNHCR - Large-Scale Repatriation To Liberia
Monday, 14 February 2005, 10:34 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency is preparing for the start next week of a potentially dramatic increase in the repatriation of Liberians, with plans to help more than 100,000 exiles return to the once war-torn West African country ahead of elections ... More >>
OHCHR - Massacre Of Seven Colombian Peasants
Monday, 14 February 2005, 10:32 am | United Nations
The United Nations human rights agency has called on the Colombian authorities to investigate as soon as possible the massacre of seven peasants, including two minors, at the end of last month and punish those responsible for this atrocious crime. More >>
Surveillance After Polio Spreads To Saudi Arabia
Monday, 14 February 2005, 10:30 am | United Nations
The United Nations health agency today stressed the importance of continued surveillance for polio following the spread of the potentially paralyzing disease from West Africa to Saudi Arabia, but a leading expert said the three new cases were not a setback ... More >>
Increasing Concern Over Kurds - Iraq-Jordan Border
Monday, 14 February 2005, 10:27 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today voiced growing concern over the desperate state of a group of 102 Iranian Kurds, including at least five pregnant women and a large number of children, who have been marooned for up to four weeks on the Iraqi-Jordanian ... More >>
Maritime ID enters into force to fight terrorism
Friday, 11 February 2005, 11:04 am | United Nations
In an effort to pre-empt terrorism on the high seas and in the world’s ports, a new and more rigorous United Nations-sponsored biometric identity verification system that could potentially affect 1.2 million maritime workers handling 90 per cent of ... More >>
Militias clash in eastern DR of Congo, killing 52
Friday, 11 February 2005, 11:01 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 >>
Only reformed UN can confront terror and poverty
Friday, 11 February 2005, 11:00 am | United Nations
From terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) to hunger, disease and conflict that reap a deadly toll of tsunami proportions every few months, the world is facing a confluence of threats that only a United Nations reformed for the 21st century ... More >>
Calls on DPR of Korea's partners: nuclear talks
Friday, 11 February 2005, 10:59 am | United Nations
Annan calls on DPR of Korea's partners to bring it back to nuclear talks More >>
Developing countries prepare for market economies
Friday, 11 February 2005, 10:56 am | United Nations
The governments of developing countries should invest in the basic services that enable their people to take part in market economies and accelerate the kind of social development that lessens social inequality and exclusion, United Nations Deputy Secretary ... More >>
Gaza Children Receive School Kits - UNICEF Plan
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 1:38 pm | United Nations
Some 10,000 Palestinian children in impoverished areas in the occupied Gaza Strip have received school supplies under a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) initiative to support their commitment to education. More >>
Action Needed To Save Age-Old African Rock Art
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 10:59 am | United Nations
With African rock art providing one of the oldest and most extensive records on Earth of human thought, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the continent’s leaders to play a more active role in saving a priceless cultural heritage of all ... More >>
