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Relief Prepared As Hurricane Ivan Passes Caribbean
Friday, 10 September 2004, 10:14 am | United Nations
United Nations humanitarian agencies are accelerating the deployment of staff and emergency kits to the Caribbean, where Hurricane Ivan - the latest in a series of tropical storms to strike the region this season - is already wreaking deadly havoc. More >>
Annan Condemns Jakarta Terrorist Car Bomb
Friday, 10 September 2004, 9:05 am | United Nations
Voicing horror at the car bomb explosion today near the Australian Embassy in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta which reportedly killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 hundred others, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan again repudiated ... More >>
UN Replaces Demolished Palestinian Refugee Homes
Thursday, 9 September 2004, 5:46 pm | United Nations
The main United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees today handed over 103 new shelters in Rafah in the Gaza Strip for families whose homes have been demolished during the latest uprising against Israel, but the ceremony planned for the event ... More >>
Annan Urges Immediate Release Of Hostages In Iraq
Thursday, 9 September 2004, 9:53 am | United Nations
Amid mounting reports of hostage-taking in Iraq, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today reiterated his call for the "immediate and unconditional" release of all those who have been abducted. More >>
Latin America Democracy Must Respond To Poor
Thursday, 9 September 2004, 9:51 am | United Nations
While Latin America has a solid democratic tradition, its benefits have not reached the region's poor, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in Mexico, calling for better leadership to eliminate public doubts about the value of having a vote. More >>
UN Agency Seeks To Curb Suicide
Thursday, 9 September 2004, 9:50 am | United Nations
With nearly 1 million people dying from suicide every year, more than from all homicides and wars combined, the United Nations health agency today called for concerted global action to curb what it termed “a huge but largely preventable public health problem.” More >>
Armed Groups And Weak Rule Of Law Plague Haiti
Wednesday, 8 September 2004, 10:56 am | United Nations
While the troubled Caribbean nation of Haiti is making tentative steps towards stability and development, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's latest report on the progress of the United Nations peacekeeping mission there warns that the rule of law remains ... More >>
Congo: Annan Hails Detained UN Peacekeeper Release
Wednesday, 8 September 2004, 10:03 am | United Nations
Welcoming the release of a United Nations peacekeeper detained last week by one of the factions in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on all sides to bring the peace process in the area back ... More >>
Iraqi Minister Calls For UN's Return To Baghdad
Wednesday, 8 September 2004, 9:59 am | United Nations
As Secretary-General Kofi Annan met in New York with his top envoy for Iraq, the country's foreign minister said the return of the United Nations to Baghdad was long overdue. More >>
Afghanistan: 1st Free Presidential Election Begins
Wednesday, 8 September 2004, 9:57 am | United Nations
The campaign for Afghanistan's first open presidential election in its history formally began today, with 18 candidates given the next 30 days to convince voters they should be chosen for the post, the joint United Nations-Afghan body handling the polling ... More >>
Need For World Action On Terror - Annan
Wednesday, 8 September 2004, 9:55 am | United Nations
The "brutal and senseless slaughter" of children in the terrorist attack on a school in southern Russia only serves to emphasize and the need for the world community to come together in confronting terrorism, United Nations Secretary-General ... More >>
Liberia: Former Top Aide Surrenders Weapons To UN
Wednesday, 8 September 2004, 9:54 am | United Nations
Liberia's immediate former President, Moses Z. Blah, who took over from exiled President Charles Taylor in August last year, today surrendered his weapons to United Nations peacekeepers in the capital, Monrovia. More >>
Darfur: UN Fed Nearly 1 Million People Last Month
Wednesday, 8 September 2004, 9:53 am | United Nations
Darfur: UN Fed Nearly 1 Million People Last Month But 200,000 Still Went Hungry More >>
Israeli Fire Wounds Palestinian Girl In UN School
Wednesday, 8 September 2004, 9:51 am | United Nations
The main United Nations agency helping Palestine refugees today decried the wounding by Israeli gunfire of a child sitting in a classroom of one of its schools in the Gaza Strip – the third such incident in 18 months. More >>
Lebanon PM Gets Post-Conflict Reconstruction Award
Monday, 6 September 2004, 11:56 am | United Nations
Rafic Hariri, President of the Council of Ministers of Lebanon, today received the Special Citation of the UN-HABITAT 2004 Scroll of Honour Award for his "outstanding and visionary leadership" in the country's reconstruction. More >>
Annan Wants Int Presence To Stop Darfur Attacks
Monday, 6 September 2004, 11:55 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the international presence in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region must be expanded as soon as possible because attacks against civilians are continuing and "the vast majority of militias" have not been disarmed. More >>
Lawyers Formally Appointed To Defend Miloševic
Monday, 6 September 2004, 11:53 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today formally appointed British lawyers Steven Kay and Gillian Higgins as counsel for former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševic, who is facing trial for genocide and other war crimes. More >>
Annan Welcomes Release Of Anwar Ibrahim From Jail
Monday, 6 September 2004, 11:51 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today hailed the decision of a Malaysian court to overturn the sodomy conviction of the country's former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and release him from jail. More >>
Horror At Hostage Death Toll At Russian School
Monday, 6 September 2004, 11:50 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today expressed his horror at the large number of children and others killed or injured in school hostage crisis in southern Russia. More >>
Crisis: 1.6 Million People Displaced In Uganda
Monday, 6 September 2004, 11:47 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations humanitarian official warned today that without adequate funding the world body would not be able to meet the crisis festering in northern Uganda, where 1.6 million people have been displaced by the conflict with the rebel ... More >>
