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UN-Backed Forum - Automated Car Emergency Calls
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 10:15 am | United Nations
Cars with futuristic communications systems, ranging from warning nearby vehicles that they are skidding and advising appropriate action to automatically generated in-vehicle emergency calls that could save lives, will be the focus of a United Nations-backed ... More >>
Annan Calls On Togolese To Respect Constitution
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 10:14 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on Togo to respect its own constitution in appointing a successor to long-serving President Gnassingbe Eyadema, who died over the weekend, voicing concern that the process did not follow the West ... More >>
UN: School Rehabilitation And Mine Clearance, Iraq
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 10:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations is pressing ahead with its efforts both to rehabilitate schools throughout Iraq and to avoid death and injury from mines and other abandoned ordnance, the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq ( http://www.uniraq.org/ ">UNAMI) reported ... More >>
Ability To Get Food To Tsunami-Ravaged Indonesia
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 10:08 am | United Nations
With nearly 500,000 people already having received a one-month supply of food in Indonesia’s tsunami-ravaged Aceh region, the United Nations World Food Programme ( http://www.wfp.org ">WFP) is rapidly increasing its logistical capacity, with ... More >>
UN Refugee Agency Chief Wraps Up Tour, West Africa
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 10:05 am | United Nations
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers wrapped up his tour of the West Africa region with a visit over the weekend to Côte d’Ivoire, which, until conflict broke out in ... More >>
Somalia: Respect For Human Rights Key To Stability
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 10:04 am | United Nations
The United Nations Independent Expert on human rights in Somalia has called on the new Transitional Federal Government to ensure long-term stability of the Horn of Africa country by incorporating international human rights standards into the rebuilding ... More >>
UN Feed And Inoculate 10,000 Families, DR Of Congo
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 10:02 am | United Nations
UN Children's Fund To Feed And Inoculate 10,000 Families In DR Of Congo More >>
Oil-For-Food - Disciplinary Measures: UN Staffers
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 9:59 am | United Nations
The United Nations today announced the start of disciplinary procedures against two staff members named in a recent preliminary report by an independent panel probing allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=97&Body=Oil-for-Food&Body1=inquiry ... More >>
UN Seeks Withdrawal Of Foreign Troops From Lebanon
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 9:57 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s newly appointed envoy on the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon met over the weekend in Damascus with senior officials of Syria, which has 14,000 troops on its smaller neighbour’s soil. More >>
Annan To Soon Offer UN Anti-Terrorism Strategy
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 9:54 am | United Nations
Responding to a recommendation by his High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change that the United Nations should work out a comprehensive anti-terrorism strategy, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told a counter-terrorism meeting that he would soon ... More >>
HIV/AIDS Africa: Child Treatments Possible 18 mths
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 9:53 am | United Nations
UN Envoy On Ending HIV/AIDS In Africa Says Child Treatments Possible In 18 Months More >>
Reports Of Unrest Continue To Flow In From Darfur
Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 10:37 am | United Nations
Reports of unrest continue to flow in from various parts of Sudan’s western Darfur region, including abductions, the burning of villages, the disruption of relief operations and shooting, the United Nations mission in the country said today. More >>
Help for Israel, Palestinians to Seal Peace
Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 9:42 am | United Nations
Despite encouraging new moves in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the situation remains fragile and the international community must encourage the parties to match their positive words with action on the ground and help ease the Palestinians’ economic ... More >>
Tsunami Shows Way To Deal With World’s Ills
Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 9:41 am | United Nations
The inspirational worldwide outpouring of humanitarian aid after the Indian Ocean tsunami is a lesson that belies the myths of compassion fatigue and the world as a heartless place in confronting crises in other emergencies and from other scourges, ... More >>
UN- Violence Against Women Persists In Afghanistan
Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 9:39 am | United Nations
Despite some human rights improvements in Afghanistan such as the release of hundreds of prisoners, matters of concern still persist, including domestic violence against women, a deficient justice system, the deleterious impact of drugs and the dire conditions ... More >>
Other Sudanese conflicts may harm peace mission
Monday, 7 February 2005, 1:43 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy cautioned the Security Council today that unless solutions are found to the conflicts plaguing Darfur and other regions of Sudan, the UN peace-support mission planned for the country's south will suffer. More >>
Other Sudanese conflicts may harm peace mission
Monday, 7 February 2005, 1:37 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy cautioned the Security Council today that unless solutions are found to the conflicts plaguing Darfur and other regions of Sudan, the UN peace-support mission planned for the country's south will suffer. More >>
UN helps tsunami survivors who will not relocate
Monday, 7 February 2005, 1:02 pm | United Nations
While the Indonesian Government is relocating to camps scores of thousands of people displaced by December’s devastating tsunami in Aceh province, the United Nations refugee agency is tending to the needs of 4,000 survivors who have made clear their ... More >>
Annan Pays Tribute To Late Togolese President
Monday, 7 February 2005, 11:27 am | United Nations
Reacting with sorrow to the death today of President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan paid tribute to the West African leader's legacy as a peacemaker. More >>
UN war crimes - reduces jail term of Bosnian Serb
Monday, 7 February 2005, 12:59 am | United Nations
The former commander of a Bosnian Serb detention camp who personally tortured inmates during the Balkans conflict in the 1990s will serve a 20-year jail term after the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia reduced his sentence ... More >>
