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UN Chief Of Staff To Washington; Deputy Resigns
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 10:57 am | United Nations
In the wake of an independent panel's interim report on the United Nations' handling of the Oil-for-Food programme for Iraq, Secretary General Kofi Annan's new chief of staff is scheduled to visit Washington tomorrow for talks with Congressional leaders ... More >>
1st Results In Iraqi Elections Expected Thursday
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 10:54 am | United Nations
First official results of the Iraqi elections, which the United Nations helped organize, are expected on Thursday, UN officials said today. More >>
Annan Welcomes Israeli And Palestinian Statements
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 10:53 am | United Nations
Welcoming Israeli and Palestinian statements today that they were holding their fire against one another, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he believed that "their joint announcements to cease violence after four years of death ... More >>
Government And Rebel Leader Mark Sudan Peace
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 10:52 am | United Nations
The two principals in the decades-long Government-rebel conflict in southern Sudan, who less than three months ago vowed before an extraordinary United Nations Security Council meeting on their own doorstep in Kenya to make peace, came to the Council's ... More >>
Meeting To Assess Progress - 1995 UN Social Summit
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 10:50 am | United Nations
United Nations Member States are poised to assess the progress of meeting the commitments they made at the 1995 Social Summit, including eradicating poverty and promoting full employment, universal access to quality education and accelerated development ... More >>
Annan Condemns Killing Of Senior Tamil Leader
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 10:48 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today condemned the killing of a senior Tamil leader, urging the parties in Sri Lanka not to do anything that might upset the country's peace process. More >>
Eve Of Kyoto Treaty, UN Plugs Public Transport
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 10:46 am | United Nations
Just a week before an anti-global warming treaty comes into force, the United Nations environmental agency is teaming up with an international public transportation group in a television campaign aimed at reducing the use of private cars – and their emissions ... More >>
UN Envoy Seeking Pullout Of Troops Talks In Beirut
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 10:43 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy seeking the pullout of foreign troops from Lebanon continued his visit today to Beirut, holding talks with senior officials past and present. More >>
‘Adopt An Island’ - UN Initiative To Help Maldives
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 9:55 am | United Nations
Big businesses can now adopt small islands in the tsunami-ravaged Maldives under a new United Nations programme to provide funds for people to rebuild their homes in the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago, with the top price tag at over $4 million. More >>
UNESCO Calls For Release Of Italian Journalist
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 9:53 am | United Nations
In yet another intervention in defence of journalists, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization today called for the release of an Italian reporter kidnapped in Iraq, stressing that press freedom is an essential ingredient of democracy. More >>
UN Project To Prevent Rape In Refugee Camps
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 9:51 am | United Nations
Although the incidence of rape in refugee camps in Kenya has dropped drastically, the United Nations refugee agency and its partners in the East African country have launched a project to strengthen existing actions to prevent and respond to sexual ... More >>
UN Supplies To Repair Power Station - Basrah, Iraq
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 9:50 am | United Nations
The United Nations mission in Iraq has delivered more than $800,000 worth of spare parts to a power station in the southern city of Basrah, part of a project to increase the plant's capacity and the reliability of the energy supply. More >>
Systematic worldwide reporting of child abuse
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 12:49 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special envoy for children and armed conflict (CAAC) today launched an action plan for systematically monitoring and reporting of child abuse in situations of armed conflict, or in "situations of concern," ... More >>
Suspension of officials: Oil-for-Food programme
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 12:47 am | United Nations
Two United Nations staff members – including the former head of the Iraq Oil-for-Food programme – have been sent formal notification of the administrative charges against them arising from a recent preliminary report by an independent panel probing allegations ... More >>
Insecurity rising - urban centres of Côte d'Ivoire
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 12:45 am | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire today expressed anxiety about rising insecurity and criminal behaviour in certain towns, especially Abidjan, the largest city in the West African country, and called on the authorities to disarm ... More >>
Fight against sexual exploitation in peacekeeping
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 12:44 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has written to the Security Council appealing for more police and French-speaking investigators to strengthen the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as an expanded investigation ... More >>
UN - Cooperation To Save Central Africa’s Forests
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 10:23 am | United Nations
Governments, private companies, local communities and indigenous peoples must all come together to save forests, which play a vital role in fighting poverty and promoting medicine and food security, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told ... More >>
UN - $3 Million Flash Appeal For Floods In Guyana
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 10:21 am | United Nations
The United Nations today launched a $3 million flash appeal to meet the immediate needs of over 300,000 Guyanese – nearly half the South American country’s total population – affected by recent floods, including provision of safe water, adequate sanitation ... More >>
Restoration Of Immunity To Cambodian Opposition
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 10:20 am | United Nations
The top United Nations human rights official for Cambodia has http://www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B9C2E/(httpNewsByYear_en)/3D15C94BC59D47B8C1256FA10055E267?OpenDocument ">voiced serious concern over the lifting of the immunity of three opposition lawmakers, called for the immediate release of one of them who was arrested, and ... More >>
UN HRs Experts Concerned Over Arrests In Nepal
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 10:17 am | United Nations
A group of nine United Nations human rights experts today voiced deep concern over a wave of arrests and detentions in Nepal following King Gyanendra’s suspension of constitutional guarantees and called for the full restoration of democracy and the ... More >>
