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UN Appeals For Resettlement Of Stranded Kurds
Monday, 13 December 2004, 12:34 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today appealed for other countries to grant resettlement to some 900 mostly Iranian Kurd or Palestinian refugees who have been marooned for the past 18 months in no-man's-land between Iraq and Jordan or in a nearby camp and ... More >>
UN: Final Visit To Peacekeepers In Lebanon
Monday, 13 December 2004, 12:33 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy in the Middle East has paid a farewell visit to the UN's peacekeeping mission in Lebanon as he gets ready to leave after more than five years in his post. More >>
Repatriation Is Soaring In Africa
Monday, 13 December 2004, 12:32 am | United Nations
With an unprecedented number of repatriation operations underway in Africa, the United Nations refugee agency today launched a $1.1 billion appeal, nearly $100 million more than in 2004, to fund its work for next year to care for some 17 million refugees ... More >>
Registration Of Asylum Seekers In Malaysia Begins
Monday, 13 December 2004, 12:31 am | United Nations
Teams from the United Nations refugee agency will begin wading into the jungles of Malaysia next week to register refugees and other asylum seekers ahead of an expected crackdown on illegal migrants early in 2005. More >>
Call For Funds To Prevent Cut In Refugee Rations
Friday, 10 December 2004, 9:44 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that it would be forced to drastically cut food rations for 118,000 refugees in camps in Ethiopia, unless donations of $4.2 million are made urgently to provide enough food for at least the ... More >>
UN To Face Hiv/Aids, Genocide, Terrorism in 2005
Thursday, 9 December 2004, 9:12 am | United Nations
The coming year is critical for the United Nations to make the necessary reforms to deal effectively with a new globalization of threats, from HIV/AIDS, nuclear proliferation and genocide to terrorism capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people, Secretary-General ... More >>
Minimal Investments Can Reduce Chronic Hunger
Thursday, 9 December 2004, 9:11 am | United Nations
Efforts to reduce chronic hunger in developing countries are not on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the number of starving people worldwide by 2015 but that target can still be attained with minimal costs relative to the ... More >>
UN Demands Rwanda Pull Out Military Forces
Thursday, 9 December 2004, 9:10 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today demanded Rwanda withdraw any military forces it may have in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and warned of potential instability brought about by the presence of Rwandan rebels in the DRC. More >>
Uganda: UN Considers 1.6 Million Displaced Persons
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 11:59 am | United Nations
UN Relief Head Meets With Ugandan Leader On Return Of 1.6 Million Displaced Persons More >>
UN Cites Negative Stereotypes Of Islam Believers
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 11:15 am | United Nations
Seeing Islam as a monolith, distorting its tenets and conflating Arabs with the entire Islamic world are among the many practices that now make up the prejudice called Islamophobia and must be stopped, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said ... More >>
Fairer Globalization Needed To Halve World’s Poor
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 11:14 am | United Nations
With half the world's workers unable to earn enough to rise above the $2 a day poverty line, fairer globalization and better jobs are vital to achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the number of global poor by 2015, according ... More >>
Karzai 1st Democratically Elected Afghan President
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 11:12 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today congratulated Afghan President Hamid Karzai on his inauguration as the country's first democratically elected leader and pledged full support to the completion of the Bonn agenda, which three years ago this month ... More >>
Nov. Saw Marked Security Deterioration In Darfur
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 9:35 am | United Nations
With increased clashes threatening to plunge Sudan’s western Darfur region into chaos, the top United Nations political officer today called on the international community to exert pressure on both the Government and rebels to abide by their pledges to ... More >>
UN MiddleEast Observer Force Extention Recommended
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 9:25 am | United Nations
Since the Middle East “is very tense and likely to remain so,” United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today recommended extending the mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) between Israel and Syria until the end of next June and called on UN ... More >>
Major Funding Needed To Avert China Aids Epidemic
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 9:23 am | United Nations
China has made an “an impressive turnaround” over the past year in its response to its growing HIV/AIDS problem and fighting tuberculosis, but investment must continue to grow if a major epidemic is to be averted, the head of a United Nations-backed ... More >>
Israel Continues Violation Of Lebanese Air Space
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 11:09 am | United Nations
A United Nations envoy expressed his deep concern today over the most recent violations by Israel of the line marking the withdrawal of its troops from Lebanon. More >>
Congo: Two Peacekeepers Wounded
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 10:53 am | United Nations
Two United Nations peacekeepers are recovering from their wounds in a UN hospital today after their investigation of alleged human rights violations by a rebel militia resulted in an exchange of fire, the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic ... More >>
Congo: Two Peacekeepers Wounded
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 10:53 am | United Nations
Two United Nations peacekeepers are recovering from their wounds in a UN hospital today after their investigation of alleged human rights violations by a rebel militia resulted in an exchange of fire, the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic ... More >>
Congo: Two Peacekeepers Wounded
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 10:53 am | United Nations
Two United Nations peacekeepers are recovering from their wounds in a UN hospital today after their investigation of alleged human rights violations by a rebel militia resulted in an exchange of fire, the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic ... More >>
Afghanistan At Risk As Troops Leave
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 10:50 am | United Nations
On the eve of the inauguration of Afghanistan's first democratically elected President, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says that despite key political gains, the country faces broad security threats as coalition and other international troops ... More >>
