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UN Vows To Implement Millennium Development Report
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 9:28 am | United Nations
A host of specialized United Nations agencies today rallied behind a new strategy report for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of slashing the world’s ills by 2015, pledging their specific expertise in sectors ranging from feeding the ... More >>
Eritrea: 2.3mil Drought-Stricken Need Food Aid
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 9:27 am | United Nations
After droughts and delayed rains, some 2.3 million people in Eritrea will need more than quarter of a million tons in food aid this year to supplement the inadequate harvest they have produced, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization ... More >>
UN Condemns Malta’s Treatment Of Asylum-Seekers
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 9:26 am | United Nations
Calling on the European Union to harmonize the asylum policies of its members, the United Nations refugee agency today criticized Malta’s policies, the strictest in the EU, and condemned what it said were deliberate attacks by Maltese soldiers on ... More >>
UN Conference Calls For Better Mitigation Measures
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 9:24 am | United Nations
Three weeks after a devastating Indian Ocean tsunami killed at least 160,000 people, the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR) opened today in Kobe, Japan – site of a disastrous earthquake that claimed 40,000 lives 10 years ... More >>
Tsunami Spotlights Long-Term Development Needs
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 9:22 am | United Nations
18 January 2005, Bangkok –“Each year, half a million women die giving birth – that is the death toll from one Asian tsunami every four months. Every year, three million people die of AIDS. That is one tsunami every three weeks. Every year, 11 million ... More >>
UN Conference Seeks To Reduce Disasters' Toll
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 11:16 am | United Nations
Ten years after an earthquake killed nearly 6,500 people and injured 40,000 in 20 seconds in Kobe, Japan, 4,000 delegates from 150 countries have gathered at ground zero this week for a United Nations conference on disaster reduction, its deliberations ... More >>
US Agriculture Secretary To Be New Unicef Head
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 10:30 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he would nominate United States Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, a veteran manager of complex organizations, to head the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the world's leading body addressing the needs of ... More >>
UN Says It Has Done All It Can For Iraq Elections
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 10:29 am | United Nations
In Face Of Violence, UN Has Done All It Can Technically For Iraqi Elections – Annan More >>
Thousands of Afghan Refugees Likely To Return Home
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 10:09 am | United Nations
Hundreds of thousands of the estimated 3 million Afghan still living in exile in Pakistan and Iran will likely return home this year but the pace of repatriation to their war-ravaged country should not be speeded up, according to the head of the ... More >>
Locusts And Drought Hit 400,000 Mauritania People
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 10:07 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for immediate food aid for 400,000 people in Mauritania, where locusts and drought have obliterated agricultural production, the cornerstone of families’ survival. More >>
Boost In Nuclear Health Science For West Africa
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 10:06 am | United Nations
Addressing a part of his mission that is perhaps as important as even if less headline-grabbing than the fight to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency is visiting West Africa see to how nuclear science can help ... More >>
Tsunami Early Warning System Moves To Centre Stage
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 10:04 am | United Nations
The establishment of a tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean, which experts say could have saved scores of thousands of lives in the recent catastrophe, moves into sharper focus this week as United Nations agencies continue to grapple with ... More >>
Two Sentenced For War Crimes In Srebrenica Enclave
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 12:30 am | United Nations
Two Bosnian Serbs were sentenced today by the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for their roles in the massacre of 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the Srebrenica enclave in July 1995. More >>
UN: Solutions To Problems Of World Poverty
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 12:29 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today launched a 3,000-page document which research team leader, Special Adviser Jeffrey Sachs, called "a unique report" recommending processes and details of plans to reach the Millennium ... More >>
Sudan UN-Backed Polio Campaign Successful
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 12:27 am | United Nations
The three-day polio vaccination campaign launched throughout Sudan on 10 January has been "exceptionally successful," reaching more 5 million children under five, with the various warring factions in Africa's largest country allowing it to ... More >>
Annan: Palestinians Should Support New Leadership
Monday, 17 January 2005, 10:00 am | United Nations
Calling recent violence a setback to the Middle East peace process, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appealed to Palestinians to support their new leader in efforts to achieve the long-sought goal of statehood. More >>
Palestinian Terror Attack In Gaza Condemned
Monday, 17 January 2005, 9:59 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today condemned the Palestinian terror attack Thursday night that caused the death of six Israeli civilians and injury to four others. More >>
Kosovo And Serbia Talks On Toll Of Missing
Monday, 17 January 2005, 9:57 am | United Nations
The United Nations administrator for Kosovo today called for a resumption of direct talks between Serbia and the province to resolve the issue of more than 3,000 people still missing five years after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) drove ... More >>
Assassination Of Colombian Journalist Denounced
Monday, 17 January 2005, 9:56 am | United Nations
Warning that democracy is under fire with the continued murder of journalists, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has condemned the assassination of a Colombian radio reporter who frequently denounced corruption ... More >>
Bird Flu Must Stay Out Of Tsunami Relief Food
Monday, 17 January 2005, 9:53 am | United Nations
With a fourth new human case of potentially deadly bird flu confirmed in Viet Nam, the United Nations health agency has called for ensuring that infected poultry is kept out of the food chain, including emergency food relief supplies for the region ... More >>
