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AFGHANISTAN'S RISING OPIUM PROBLEM
Tuesday, 25 January 2005, 12:38 am | United Nations
With Afghanistan’s opium production having jumped last year 22 per cent to $3 billion in value and to 87 per cent of the world’s illicit output, the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) will visit the Central Asian country this ... More >>
Tsunami damage to Indonesia environment millions
Monday, 24 January 2005, 10:07 am | United Nations
Beyond the horrific loss of human life, the recent Indian Ocean tsunami extensively damaged Indonesia's coastal environment, causing $675 million in losses to natural habitats and important ecosystem functions, the United Nations Environment Programme ... More >>
UN forces in Côte d'Ivoire - Bystander killed
Monday, 24 January 2005, 10:03 am | United Nations
Bystander killed by gunman during exchange of fire with UN forces in Côte d'Ivoire More >>
UN - plan to tackle natural hazards
Monday, 24 January 2005, 10:00 am | United Nations
23 January 2005 – The United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction – a long-planned event which gained added importance in the wake of the recent Indian Ocean tsunami – has concluded in Kobe, Japan, with countries pledging to reduce the risks facing ... More >>
UN'S GEORGIA MISSION VITAL FOR MAINTAINING PEACE
Friday, 21 January 2005, 10:51 am | United Nations
With dialogue in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict frozen for much of last year, the United Nations mission there remains vital in preventing a flare-up of the hostilities between Government and separatist forces which uprooted nearly 300,000 refugees over a decade ... More >>
UN WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Friday, 21 January 2005, 10:48 am | United Nations
In a bid to help the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia meet its target of trying all defendants by 2008, the General Assembly today extended the tenure of seven short-term judges and appointed two new temporary judges as well. More >>
ISRAEL AND LEBANON : RENEWAL OF UN FORCE MANDATE
Friday, 21 January 2005, 10:46 am | United Nations
Recommending a six-month extension of the United Nations peace-monitoring force's mandate in the so-called Blue Line between Israel and Lebanon, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says two incidents in January decisively shattered a period of relative ... More >>
HEAVY RAINS HAMPER UN TSUNAMI RELIEF IN TEMPORARY
Friday, 21 January 2005, 10:42 am | United Nations
Even as relief distribution improves in Indonesia, the region most ravaged by last month's Indian Ocean tsunami, a particularly heavy rainy season is worsening conditions in temporary settlements and hampering the delivery of supplies, especially by road, ... More >>
UN ENCOURAGED BY PALESTINIAN MOVE TO END VIOLENCE
Friday, 21 January 2005, 10:39 am | United Nations
The latest developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the deployment of Palestinian security forces in northern Gaza are "very encouraging," a United Nations spokesman said today, after days of concern that a fresh upsurge of ... More >>
Businesses Failing Policies To Tackle Aids Threat
Friday, 21 January 2005, 9:57 am | United Nations
In a critical report on the corporate response to the social and business threats of HIV/AIDS, a new United Nations-backed report today lamented that businesses rarely draw up written policies to tackle the crisis, such as counselling, testing and treatment, ... More >>
UN Human Rights Official To Visit War-Torn Nepal
Friday, 21 January 2005, 9:56 am | United Nations
The top United Nations human rights official is to visit Nepal next week for a first-hand assessment of the situation in the Himalayan kingdom a month after a UN working group called on the Government to honour its international obligations to stop forced disappearances ... More >>
UN Spotlights Pre-empting Silent Killers
Friday, 21 January 2005, 9:55 am | United Nations
With hunger and related diseases claiming as many lives each week as the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami – more than 165,000 at latest count – the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR) today shone the spotlight on the silent killers, ... More >>
Evil Of Holocaust Still Threatens World - Annan
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 10:55 am | United Nations
The evil that killed 6 million Jews and others in the Nazi death camps 60 years ago still threatens the world, and the global community must ensure that such horror never occurs again, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today ahead ... More >>
More Congolese Fleeing Into Uganda From Fighting
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 10:54 am | United Nations
Thousands of refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have returned to their North Kivu villages from Uganda, but urgent help is needed for the 3,000 who remain near Lake Edward, as well as for thousands of refugees from the DRC's ... More >>
UN Teams With EC To Fight Trafficking Crime Terror
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 10:50 am | United Nations
In a joint move against the triple threat of drugs, organized crime, and terrorism, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has teamed up with the European Commission (EC) to fight the three-fold scourge on a wide front, ranging from the ... More >>
UN Concerned Japan's Deportation Of Turkish Kurds
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 10:48 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has voiced its deep concern at Japan’s “unprecedented” decision to deport a Turkish Kurd and his adult son to Turkey even though they had been recognized as refugees, after the agency had warned the move would breach international ... More >>
LongTerm Rehabilitation After Indian Ocean Tsunami
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 10:44 am | United Nations
With emergency relief now reaching nearly all affected communities in the Indonesian province of Aceh, the area most ravaged by last month’s Indian Ocean tsunami, United Nations agencies are looking to mitigate the longer term impact of a disaster that ... More >>
Maldives:Tsunami sets back development by 20 years
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 10:43 am | United Nations
Male Maldives – Within minutes of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the Maldives’ economic and social progress in recent years was washed away. Drastic drop in tourism, the country’s main income generating sector, is putting the country’s recovery efforts ... More >>
UN: African Youngsters Left To Die From HIV/AIDS
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 9:51 am | United Nations
Although 2.2 million children are living with AIDS, at least two-thirds of them in Africa, anti-retroviral formulations for children are not available and the youngsters are just being left to die, a United Nations special envoy battling HIV/AIDS on the ... More >>
Tsunami Devastation In Indonesia Truly Staggering
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 9:48 am | United Nations
As the United Nations General Assembly held a plenary session in New York today on the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, teams in the field painted a "truly staggering" picture of "enormous devastation" and the "enormous extent of human ... More >>
