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UN Food Agency And India Sign AIDS Accord
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 10:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of India have signed a landmark cooperation agreement for addressing HIV and AIDS by using surplus Indian food to improve nutrition. More >>
Philippines Violence Against Journalists Increases
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 10:37 am | United Nations
Condemning the second murder of a Philippines reporter in a week - and the 11th this year - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO) has voiced alarm at the escalating violence against journalists in the southeast ... More >>
Sharks Get Make-Over In Un-Backed 3-D Film
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 10:04 am | United Nations
It may not exactly be man’s best friend, but the shark will have its image burnished in a United Nations-backed film that offers an astonishing, up-close three-dimensional encounter with nature’s ultimate, yet endangered predator while delivering a compelling ... More >>
Eritrea Will Need Food Aid Well Into 2005
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 10:02 am | United Nations
Hit By Drought And Effects Of War, Eritrea Will Need Food Aid Well Into 2005 - UN More >>
UN Urges Greater Efforts To Rid World Of Landmines
Monday, 6 December 2004, 10:16 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed progress in clearing anti-personnel mines in recent years, but warned that these indiscriminate weapons continue to exact a heavy civilian toll. More >>
CIA Analysis Of Iraq's Weapons Programme Released
Monday, 6 December 2004, 10:15 am | United Nations
The United Nations commission that was in charge of disarming Iraq of weapons of mass destruction says the conclusions of a CIA report largely confirm the analysis reached by its own inspectors. More >>
UN Assistance For Philippines' Flood Victims
Monday, 6 December 2004, 10:08 am | United Nations
As fresh reports came in of the death and destruction caused by flooding and landslides in the Philippines, United Nations agencies today stepped up their relief operations, deploying a team of experts to help the Government assess the extent of the damage ... More >>
Rape, Fighting Continue In Sudan's Darfur Region
Monday, 6 December 2004, 10:07 am | United Nations
Despite agreements signed between Sudan's Government and rebels in the country's Darfur region, recent reports of sexual violence and rape persist, contributing to a tremendous sense of insecurity among internally displaced persons (IDPs), the United ... More >>
Malaysia Crackdown On Illegals May Affect Refugees
Monday, 6 December 2004, 10:06 am | United Nations
With Malaysia planning to pay bounties to officials taking part in a nationwide crackdown on illegal immigrants, the United Nations refugee agency today expressed concern that thousands of genuine refugees and asylum seekers may be wrongly caught in the ... More >>
Khmer Rouge Court Closer To Fruition
Monday, 6 December 2004, 10:04 am | United Nations
A special court to try the aging leaders of the Khmer Rouge is one step closer to fruition now that Cambodia has complied with the legal requirements for its agreement with the United Nations to enter into force. More >>
UN Envoy Urges Israel To Talk To Syria
Wednesday, 1 December 2004, 10:27 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy for the Middle East today became the first UN official to appear before the Israeli parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, and urged the country to "grab the outstretched hand" of Syrian President ... More >>
Myanmar: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Should Be Freed
Wednesday, 1 December 2004, 10:27 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged the authorities in Myanmar to seize the momentum created by recent announcements that some 9,000 prisoners will be released to also free Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and others jailed for expressing their ... More >>
$1.5billion in Aid Sought For War-Torn Sudan
Wednesday, 1 December 2004, 9:36 am | United Nations
UN, Partners Seek $1.5 Billion In Urgent Aid For War-Torn Sudan For 2005 More >>
Bleak Conditions For Iranian Kurd Refugees
Wednesday, 1 December 2004, 9:34 am | United Nations
Nearly 3,000 Iranian Kurds in a camp in central Iraq, cut off for the past two weeks from outside help because of fighting in the region, are facing bleak conditions with no water or electricity although food has reached them, the United Nations refugee ... More >>
Parties Move To Protect World’s Vital Ozone Layer
Wednesday, 1 December 2004, 9:33 am | United Nations
Parties To UN-Backed Treaty Take Further Steps To Protect World’s Vital Ozone Layer More >>
Kosovo Albanians Must Provide Serbs Security
Tuesday, 30 November 2004, 10:22 am | United Nations
Although security has improved significantly in Kosovo since March's deadly violence, the worst in the five years since the United Nations took over administering the ethnically-divided province, much work remains to be done to achieve the goals needed ... More >>
Iraq: UN Voices Extreme Concern For Kurd Refugees
Monday, 29 November 2004, 10:31 am | United Nations
For the second time in a week the United Nations refugee agency today expressed “extreme concern” over the fate of thousands of Iranian Kurds caught up in the fighting in central Iraq without access to regular food rations. More >>
UN Calls Rich Nations To Aid Sub-Saharan Africa
Monday, 29 November 2004, 10:29 am | United Nations
Annan Calls On Rich Countries To Fulfill Their Pledges Of Aid To Sub-Saharan Africa More >>
Darfur: 300,000 Displaced Persons Cut Off
Monday, 29 November 2004, 10:28 am | United Nations
The United Nations emergency feeding agency said today that the security situation in western Sudan’s Darfur region was deteriorating rapidly with 300,000 displaced people cut off from all aid following a rebel attack earlier this week in breach ... More >>
UN Lebanon Agree To Try Revitalizing Peace Process
Monday, 29 November 2004, 10:27 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy in the Middle East has held talks in Beirut with senior members of the Lebanese Government about how to revitalize the peace process in the troubled region. More >>
