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Georgia Unicef Gets Vaccines To Displaced Children
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 9:43 am | United Nations
A week after fighting between government troops and separatist forces displaced thousands in the South Ossetia region of Georgia, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is rushing vaccines to immunize 1,600 evacuated youngsters against measles, mumps ... More >>
Shipment Of Radioactive Lifesaving Isotopes Urgent
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 10:49 am | United Nations
With doctors and patients in many countries facing increasing problems in receiving lifesaving isotopes for a range of illnesses due to denials or delays in shipping radioactive materials, often for security reasons, the United Nations nuclear watchdog ... More >>
Kosovo's Ethnic Minorities Need Ongoing Protection
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 10:48 am | United Nations
Highlighting a surge in the number of murders of Kosovo Serbs over the past year, the United Nations refugee agency has issued three linked reports showing that inter-ethnic relations in the troubled province are so fragile that minority groups continue to ... More >>
UNICEF Reviews Liberia's War-Traumatized Children
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 10:46 am | United Nations
United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF head Carol Bellamy is on a three-day visit to Liberia to assess progress in reintegrating thousands of youngsters who were abducted, recruited as soldiers or sex slaves and otherwise exploited in the 15-war civil war ... More >>
Annan Urges Israel To Cease Settlement Expansion
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 10:43 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on Israel to cease its recently reported expansion of West bank settlements, calling the practice a clear contradiction of the country's obligations under the Road Map peace plan that provides for the ... More >>
Africa’s Locust Crisis Worse Than 1987/89 Plague
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 10:42 am | United Nations
The current locust invasion in the Sahel region of Africa is potentially worse than the last plague of 1987-89, with some experts warning that famine and death could result from the devastation wrought by these crop-devouring insects, the United Nations ... More >>
Nigeria's Immunization Halt Sees Polio Spread
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 10:40 am | United Nations
The polio outbreak that originated in northern Nigeria after suspension there of immunization last year has now spread to 12 other countries, underscoring the threat of a major epidemic across West and Central Africa and the urgent need to fill a ... More >>
Deadly Attack On Political Rally In Bangladesh
Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 10:45 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has deplored Saturday's bombing of an opposition political rally in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, which reportedly killed more than a dozen people. More >>
International Day On Slave Trade And Abolition
Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 10:44 am | United Nations
While slavery has been abolished by international treaties, it is still practiced in new forms that today affect millions of men, women and children in the world, the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural and ... More >>
Timor Making Progress Towards Self-Sufficiency
Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 9:56 am | United Nations
Timor-Leste has made significant progress towards self-sufficiency in terms of administration and security, and has advanced in border delimitation talks, but the world's newest country has not been able to bring several people accused of serious anti-independence ... More >>
Looming Hunger And Disease In Ethiopia
Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 9:50 am | United Nations
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) voiced deep concern today over increasing malnutrition and disease in the south-central Oromiya region of Ethiopia due to erratic and delayed rains there, warning that more ... More >>
10.3 Million Afghans Enrolled To Vote
Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 9:46 am | United Nations
At least 10.3 million Afghans have enrolled to vote in their country's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections after the final registration sites closed last Friday, the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) has announced. More >>
Pakistan Signs Accord Against Drug Trafficking
Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 9:45 am | United Nations
In a bid to enhance law enforcement in states bordering Afghanistan, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today announced a new technical assistance agreement to strengthen key agencies in Pakistan in the battle against drug trafficking and ... More >>
WHO Warns Of Ominous Bird Flu Infection In Pigs
Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 9:42 am | United Nations
The United Nations health agency is seeking further details from China about the first-ever reported natural infection of pigs with a highly infectious strain of bird flu, a development that could be of particular concern as it would increase ... More >>
Sri Lanka: UNESCO Condemns Journalist's Murder
Monday, 23 August 2004, 11:56 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the murder of a Sri Lankan journalist, whose newspaper had reportedly been harassed by Tamil separatists, denouncing it as a blow against peace ... More >>
Youth Art Launched At UN Small Islands Conference
Monday, 23 August 2004, 10:25 am | United Nations
(United Nations, 16 August) -- Young people in small island nations are being invited to share their vision for island living through an international art contest, the United Nations announced today. More >>
Afghanistan: Returning Refugees Halted By Fighting
Monday, 23 August 2004, 12:16 am | United Nations
At least 13,000 Afghans returning home from Iran have become stranded on the border or in an overcrowded transit camp because of fighting this week in western Afghanistan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today as he spotlighted ... More >>
New Surge Of Darfur Refugees Into Chad
Monday, 23 August 2004, 12:14 am | United Nations
United Nations humanitarian workers fear the continuing violence and insecurity plaguing Sudan's Darfur region could drive another 30,000 people over the border into neighbouring Chad, swelling already crowded refugee camps and straining aid agencies' capacities ... More >>
UN Moves Congolese Refugees Further Into Burundi
Friday, 20 August 2004, 11:59 am | United Nations
At a memorial service in Geneva for the nearly 160 Congolese refugees killed in Burundi's Gatumba transit centre last weekend, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees denounced the attack as an "appalling massacre of innocent civilians" and ... More >>
Iraq: Kuwaiti Bodies From 1991 Returned Home
Friday, 20 August 2004, 10:19 am | United Nations
In his latest report on the fate of 605 Kuwaitis who went missing in Iraq after the 1990 invasion of their country and the subsequent Gulf War, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says 340 bodies have already been repatriated. More >>
