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UN Refugee Chief Begins Asian Visit
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 10:03 am | United Nations
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Ruud Lubbers held talks with high-ranking Pakistani officials in Islamabad today at the start of a visit to the region in which he will seek to solve the problem of an estimated 3 million Afghans ... More >>
Residents Return To Devastated Fallujah
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 10:00 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency is working with Iraq’s Ministry of Displacement and Migration to help some of the more than 250,000 people of Fallujah return to their city after it was heavily damaged in last November’s assault by United States-led ... More >>
UNDP Provides Equipment for Thai Coral Clean-up
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 9:52 am | United Nations
11 January, Bangkok, Thailand -- A joint assessment mission conducted this week by The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), The World Bank and The Food and Agricultural Organization has prompted UNDP to provide clean-up equipment to help ... More >>
Southern Lebanon: Hizbollah & Israel Exchange Fire
Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 12:20 am | United Nations
Security Council members today called on the parties in southern Lebanon to live up to their commitments and to exercise restraint, after an exchange of fire over the weekend between the Israeli military and Hizbollah forces across the line of ... More >>
World Moves Towards Gender Parity In Education
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 3:05 pm | United Nations
The target of reaching equality in basic education for girls and boys is being met in much of the world, but girls and women still faced inequality in the labour market, in domestic violence and in vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, the United Nations expert ... More >>
UNAIDS Congratulates Mandela On His Candour
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 3:02 pm | United Nations
Expressing condolences to former South African President Nelson Mandela on the recent death of his only surviving son, the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said his candour in disclosing that his son had died ... More >>
Hailing New Palestinian President
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 10:33 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the election of new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as "a significant step in what is a historic democratic transition" in the occupied territories, and said he was looking forward to working for the establishment ... More >>
UN Conference On Small Island Nations Opens
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 10:28 am | United Nations
Calling on rich countries to increase their aid to small island developing States (SIDS), the Secretary-General of a United Nations conference to review progress in reducing island problems today also urged the tiny countries to integrate their economies ... More >>
Tsunami Relief Effort Gathers Momentum
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 9:12 am | United Nations
As the largest United Nations relief effort for a natural disaster moved into its third week in response to the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, a new coordination centre opened in Indonesia today, Secretary-General Kofi Annan toured the Maldives ... More >>
Afghanistan Elections In April Or May
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 9:12 am | United Nations
With Afghanistan facing parliamentary elections in April or May, the United Nations expert on Afghanistan today called on the international community to prepare to pay between $120 million and $130 million towards the cost, depending on the final dates ... More >>
Congo UN Peacekeepers Still Sexually Abusing Girls
Monday, 10 January 2005, 10:54 am | United Nations
United Nations peacekeeping troops have continued the sexual abuse of girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN's watchdog office says, but peacekeeping officials say Member States providing the soldiers must send sterner commanders and ... More >>
UN Priority: ng Aid To Unreached Tsunami Victims
Monday, 10 January 2005, 10:47 am | United Nations
UN's Top Priority Remains Getting Aid To Tsunami Victims It Has Not Yet Reached More >>
UN Helps Observers Monitor Palestinian Polling
Monday, 10 January 2005, 10:45 am | United Nations
As Palestinians prepare to go to the polls on Sunday to choose a president, United Nations officials today unveiled some of the details of the technical and logistical assistance they are giving to ensure that the elections are free, fair and staged ... More >>
Annan Tours Tsunami’s Most Ravaged Area
Monday, 10 January 2005, 10:44 am | United Nations
A day after launching the largest relief appeal ever in United Nations history for a natural disaster, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today visited the area most devastated by last week’s Indian Ocean tsunami and said: “I have never ... More >>
UN Helps Viet Nam Boost Bird Flu Detection
Monday, 10 January 2005, 10:43 am | United Nations
The United Nations health agency is helping Viet Nam strengthen the detection of bird flu viruses after two more children were reported to have died from the disease, warning that cooler winter temperatures and activities linked to the approach of ... More >>
30,000 Thai Fisherman lose livelihoods
Monday, 10 January 2005, 9:14 am | United Nations
7 January, Phuket,Thailand -- Fishing villages and farms wiped out by the tsunami along the Pang Na coast of Thailand have left 30,000 families without any means of earning a living, according to an assessment conducted this week by the United Nations ... More >>
UN Peacekeepers Improve Routes In Haitian Capital
Friday, 7 January 2005, 1:45 pm | United Nations
New York, Jan 5 2005 4:00PM The United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti has been emptying a city district of the burned tyres and stalled vehicles and repairing a section of railway as the troops do what they can to improve the lives of the people ... More >>
UN Envoy For Iraq Holds Talks
Friday, 7 January 2005, 1:43 pm | United Nations
New York, Jan 5 2005 5:00PM - The top United Nations envoy for Iraq held talks today with senior officials from neighbouring Jordan about the upcoming Iraqi elections and the country’s security situation, a day ahead of a meeting in the Jordanian capital ... More >>
UN To Check Iranian Military Site
Friday, 7 January 2005, 1:41 pm | United Nations
Jan 6 2005 4:00PM The United Nations atomic watchdog agency will be sending inspectors in the coming days to the Parchin military site in Iran, following allegations that it was linked to nuclear weapons testing. More >>
DR Of Congo Moves Steadily Towards Elections
Friday, 7 January 2005, 1:40 pm | United Nations
Jan 6 2005 5:00PM While Rwanda's concerns about its genocidal citizens hiding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are understandable, Rwanda and the DRC's other neighbours are not promoting the conditions needed to bring peace to the country's ... More >>
