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Unicef: Views Health & Education Deficit In Tibet
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:13 am | United Nations
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Carol Bellamy is in Tibet to get a first hand look at the situation of youngsters in Western China, a region that is struggling to catch up with the country’s strong economic growth. More >>
UN Seeks Help Rehabilitating Najaf And Sadr City
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:12 am | United Nations
Iraqi officials today sought United Nations help in rehabilitating urban areas hard-hit by recent clashes, including Najaf and Sadr city in Baghdad. More >>
Nepal: UNESCO Chief Condemns Murder Of Journalist
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:02 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO) today condemned the murder of a Nepalese journalist by Maoist rebels as an affront to democracy and an attack on the whole of society. More >>
UN Concern For Palestinians On Hunger Strike
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 11:00 am | United Nations
More than a dozen United Nations institutions operating in the occupied Palestinian territories today voiced concern at a reported hunger strike by over 2,900 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and reminded the country’s authorities to comply with their ... More >>
Number Of Asylum Seekers Plunges To 1987 Level
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 10:57 am | United Nations
The average number of people seeking asylum each month in over two dozen industrialized countries has plummeted to a low point not seen in 17 years, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today. More >>
Govt-Backed Group Hands Over Arms In Darfur
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 10:56 am | United Nations
The joint mission of United Nations and Sudanese Government officials to the war-torn Darfur region was on hand today as some 200 members of Khartoum-backed People's Defence Force handed in their weapons under a new disarmament programme. More >>
Annan's Sudan Report To Security Council Members
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 9:00 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Koffi Annan's report on Sudan that which was transmitted to UN Security Council members overnight More >>
Sudan: UN Undertakes Search For Missing Staff
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 11:45 am | United Nations
United Nations officials are conducting a search-and-rescue operation in the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan to find three UN humanitarian workers and five staff from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who have not been heard from since Saturday. More >>
Bangladesh UN Call For Urgent Aid To Flood Victims
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 11:43 am | United Nations
With only a third of the $210 million flash appeal for last month's devastating floods in Bangladesh in hand, drinking water in short supply, and farmers in urgent need of seeds, the United Nations Resident Coordinator for the country today urged donors ... More >>
UN Calls For Efforts To Halt Child Landmine Deaths
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 11:42 am | United Nations
With landmines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) continuing indiscriminately to maim and kill children across Southeast Asia, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is calling on regional governments to redouble their efforts to clean up ... More >>
Iraq: UNESCO Pleads Abducted Journalists Release
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 10:11 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today issued an urgent plea for the release of two French reporters held hostage in Iraq, vigourously condemning for the second time in a week the “shameful ... More >>
Blast Targets Election Workers In Afghanistan
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 8:57 am | United Nations
As polling officials in Afghanistan began training today for the country's upcoming elections, the United Nations temporarily stopped road missions to Rodat District in Nagarhar province after a blast apparently targeted election workers there. More >>
Annan Condemns Palestinian Attack In Israel
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 8:55 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly condemned the double deadly terrorist attack in the Israeli city of Beersheba and called on the Palestinian Authority to do everything possible to bring the perpetrators to justice and "put an end ... More >>
12 Nepalese Civilian Hostages Murdered In Iraq
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 12:31 am | United Nations
Voicing his condemnation of the gruesome murder of a dozen Nepalese civilian hostages in Iraq, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he was especially concerned by the cruel use of the killings as a public spectacle. More >>
Deadly Terrorist Bombing At Moscow Subway Station
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 12:30 am | United Nations
Expressing his dismay at "yet another terrorist attack in the Russian Federation," Secretary-General Kofi Annan denounced today's deadly bombing outside an underground railway station in Moscow. More >>
Rebels Accused of Carrying Out Burundi Massacre
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 12:26 am | United Nations
While two United Nations missions probe the mid-August massacre at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report released today that eyewitnesses blamed a rebel group from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ... More >>
Afghanistan: Weekend deadly bombings concerns UN
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 12:24 am | United Nations
Noting the high death toll from the two explosions in Afghanistan over the weekend, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his deep concern at the continuing violent attacks on the country's electoral process. More >>
Genocide Cited Against Former Rwandan Army Officer
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 12:22 am | United Nations
Prosecutors accused a former Rwandan army officer of playing a key role in the murder of thousands of people when his trial on charges of genocide and other war crimes opened today at the United Nations tribunal set up after the orgy of killings that ... More >>
Darfur: Displaced remain traumatized from rape
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 12:21 am | United Nations
The displaced inhabitants of the Sudanese region of Darfur are traumatized and humiliated, and remain at constant risk of rape, violence and pressure to return to their homes, a United Nations humanitarian official told reporters today after visiting the war-torn ... More >>
Sudan UN Seeks Urgent Funds For Huge Aid Shortfall
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 9:48 am | United Nations
With Sudan facing mass displacement from strife in its western Darfur region, a flood of refugees returning to its war-ravaged south and humanitarian emergencies nationwide, the United Nations today appealed for desperately needed funds to fill a huge shortfall ... More >>
