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UN - Tsunami: Empowering Women To Address Needs
Monday, 17 January 2005, 9:51 am | United Nations
The Indian Ocean tsunami may have made no distinction between men and women in the grim death toll it reaped with its waves but it has produced some very gender-specific after-shocks, ranging from women’s traditional role in caring for the sick to increased ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Close to 18,500 vessels lost or damaged
Monday, 17 January 2005, 9:14 am | United Nations
January 14, Colombo -- Sri Lanka’s fishing industry could take years to recover after the devastation of the Boxing Day tsunami says the United Nations. More >>
African Leaders Pledge To Eradicate Polio
Friday, 14 January 2005, 11:23 am | United Nations
With African children now making up 85 per cent of the world's poliomyelitis cases after groups in Nigeria forced suspension of an inoculation campaign, African health ministers from eight countries pledged today to plan massive immunization campaigns ... More >>
Annan's Personal Envoy Named Iraq Mission Deputy
Friday, 14 January 2005, 11:22 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appointed his personal envoy focusing on containing tensions along the line marking the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon to be his Deputy Special Representative for Iraq. More >>
Scotland Yard Expert Named New UN Security Chief
Friday, 14 January 2005, 11:19 am | United Nations
A veteran of Britain's famed Scotland Yard police department who calls himself "a practical counter-terrorist" was today named United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security at a time when the world body has seen itself become a direct ... More >>
UN: Achenese Hired To Clear Tsunami Rubble
Friday, 14 January 2005, 10:37 am | United Nations
Three hundred displaced and affected people by the tsunami in Indonesia’s Aceh province have been hired today by the Minister of Public Works with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to remove debris from the Indian Ocean Tsunami. ... More >>
Bomb Explosion Kills UN Police Officer In Kosovo
Friday, 14 January 2005, 10:19 am | United Nations
A United Nations police officer in Kosovo was killed today in a bomb explosion, leading the chief UN envoy for the ethnically-divided province to condemn the attack as a "despicable act that would certainly be repudiated by the people of Kosovo." More >>
Annan Calls For Global Warning System
Friday, 14 January 2005, 10:17 am | United Nations
Having toured some of the countries hardest-hit by the powerful and fatal December tsunami, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called today for a worldwide warning system for several natural disasters, as well as for rising sea levels likely ... More >>
UN Optimistic For Progress In Middle East
Friday, 14 January 2005, 10:14 am | United Nations
For the second straight month the head of the United Nations Political Affairs office today presented a modestly optimistic picture of the “enormous potential” for progress towards settling the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in contrast to the ... More >>
UN Visits Afghanistan To Solve Refugee Problem
Friday, 14 January 2005, 10:05 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations refugee agency is in Afghanistan holding talks with members of the new Government in the capital, Kabul, and visiting his agency’s operations in the provinces as part of an effort to solve the problem of an estimated 3 million ... More >>
Global Tsunami Early Warning System Plans Begin
Friday, 14 January 2005, 10:03 am | United Nations
The United Nations plans to have an Indian Ocean tsunami early warning system, which experts say could have saved tens of thousands of lives in the current disaster, up and running by June 2006, with a global system operational a year after that. More >>
Fishermen Suffered Huge Material Toll From Tsunami
Friday, 14 January 2005, 10:02 am | United Nations
The Indian Ocean tsunami disaster that came from the sea exacted an inordinate toll from those that live from the sea beyond its deadly haul of 160,000 lives, destroying tens of thousands of fishing boats and other equipment that were the only source ... More >>
Fresh Round Of Attacks By Armed Militias In Darfur
Friday, 14 January 2005, 12:04 am | United Nations
UN Mission Reports Fresh Round Of Attacks By Armed Militias In Darfur Region Of Sudan More >>
Private sector joins UNDP to rebuild Maldive homes
Thursday, 13 January 2005, 8:47 am | United Nations
12 January, Male, Maldives – The island of Naalaafushi has been turned into a construction site since yesterday’s arrival of bags of cement, steel pipes, hammers and other building tools. All buildings on Naalaafushi were either badly damaged or turned ... More >>
Beckham Shoots For Unicef Tsunami Relief Campaign
Thursday, 13 January 2005, 8:46 am | United Nations
England’s soccer captain David Beckham, whose famed cross-shots have made him a byword for football to affluent European fans and undernourished children in African refugee camps alike, will be shooting for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to ... More >>
Time Is Of The Essence As UN Rushes In Tsunami Aid
Thursday, 13 January 2005, 8:44 am | United Nations
Time Is Of The Essence As UN Rushes In Tsunami Aid, Both Palliative And Preventive More >>
North-South Peace In Sudan Needs To Extend
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 11:51 am | United Nations
Calling the recent peace agreement between Sudan's north and south a milestone, the United Nations envoy for Sudan called on that country's Government and the rebels in the western region of Darfur to end their conflict and give the country a "peace ... More >>
Africans Meet In Ghana In February For Summit
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 10:07 am | United Nations
With the second stage of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) set to be held in November in North Africa, a three-day African preparatory meeting next month in Ghana is to negotiate an action plan on achieving continent-wide ... More >>
Haiti Receives Funds For Elections In 2005
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 10:06 am | United Nations
A global agreement, initialled in the office of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, is bringing $41 million from abroad to Haiti for its elections later this year, according to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). More >>
UN Agencies Zero In On Specific Tsunami Relief
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 10:05 am | United Nations
As ministers from more than 30 countries gathered in Geneva today to determine priorities for the nearly $1 billion United Nations flash appeal for the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, specialized UN agencies in the field are pinpointing areas for immediate ... More >>
