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Burundi Massacre: UN Steps Up Security Patrols
Wednesday, 18 August 2004, 9:10 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies today announced stepped up operations in Burundi after last week's apparently ethnic massacre of more than 150 Congolese, reinforcing helicopter patrols along the border, increasing security in refugee camps and accelerating the ... More >>
Violence & Drugs Remain Threats To Afghanistan
Wednesday, 18 August 2004, 9:08 am | United Nations
Extremist violence, factionalism and the illicit drug industry are on the rise in Afghanistan, threatening lasting peace as the country prepares for elections, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report on the country released today. More >>
Child Mortality Unicef Urges Root Causes Addressed
Wednesday, 18 August 2004, 9:07 am | United Nations
With nearly 11 million children dying before the age of five every year, most from preventable causes, the world’s pediatricians must champion action that reaches beyond traditional health initiatives to underlying factors such as poverty, discrimination, ... More >>
Iraq: Fighting Halts Refugee Returns From Iran
Wednesday, 18 August 2004, 9:00 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has temporarily suspended its convoys for Iraqis wishing to return from neighbouring Iran because of the fighting raging in the south of the country and a housing shortage in the north. More >>
Sudan Re-Opens Camp To Aid Workers
Tuesday, 17 August 2004, 9:27 am | United Nations
The Sudanese authorities today re-opened the Kalma camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in South Darfur to humanitarian workers - a move welcomed by the senior United Nations envoy to the country, who had called for access to the area. More >>
Burkina Faso: $1.5 Million Project To Fight AIDS
Tuesday, 17 August 2004, 9:01 am | United Nations
Burkina Faso will receive an interest-free loan of $1.5 million from the African Development Fund (ADF) to strengthen community initiatives for preventing, testing and treating HIV/AIDS in a new project administered through the United Nations Development ... More >>
Refugee Massacre: Burundi Agrees To Secure Camp
Tuesday, 17 August 2004, 8:59 am | United Nations
In Wake Of Refugee Massacre, Burundi Agrees To Un Request To Set Up Secure Camp More >>
Burundi: Un Envoy Denounces Killings Torture Rape
Friday, 13 August 2004, 11:17 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy for Burundi today strongly denounced summary executions, torture, sexual violence and arbitrary detentions by all sides in the war-torn central African country since the arrival of the UN mission there in June and called on all ... More >>
Côte D'Ivoire Reconciliation Pact
Friday, 13 August 2004, 11:16 am | United Nations
The latest deal binding leaders of Côte d'Ivoire's political parties to implement a 2003 peace agreement, which ended bitter fighting, calls for the establishment of a monitoring group that would submit a progress report every two weeks to the ... More >>
UN Sudanese Officials Evaluate Situation In Darfur
Friday, 13 August 2004, 11:15 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy for Sudan was set to co-chair today the third meeting of the joint body that is monitoring Khartoum's progress in disarming government-sponsored militias in Darfur, protecting more than 1 million people forced to flee from their ... More >>
UNSC Renews Un Mission In Iraq For Another Year
Friday, 13 August 2004, 11:14 am | United Nations
The Security Council today unanimously renewed for a further year the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) , whose tasks include coordinating various humanitarian operations and helping the war-torn country to organize elections by the end of January ... More >>
No Amnesty For Genocide And War Crimes - Annan
Friday, 13 August 2004, 11:13 am | United Nations
In helping war-torn societies re-establish the rule of law and come to terms with large-scale past abuses after conflict, the United Nations must reject any amnesty for genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity, Secretary-General Kofi Annan ... More >>
UN Human Rights Expert To Afghanistan
Friday, 13 August 2004, 11:12 am | United Nations
A United Nations expert will begin a one-week visit to Afghanistan this weekend to check on the rights of prisoners and women, the exercise of political rights, human rights education and transitional justice. More >>
UN Human Rights Office Opens In Guatemala
Friday, 13 August 2004, 11:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations human rights office opened bureau in Guatemala today to take over the UN peacekeeping mission's 10 years of work verifying the human rights situation since decades of war ended in the Central American country. More >>
Israelis, Palestinians Undermining Peace Prospects
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 2:38 pm | United Nations
Both Israelis and Palestinians are undermining prospects for peace, with the former failing to end settlement expansion and carrying out collective punishment, the latter failing to end violence and combat terror, and civilians on both sides suffering, ... More >>
Global Youth Unemployment Skyrockets
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 2:36 pm | United Nations
With youth unemployment worldwide skyrocketing to an all-time high, the United Nations labour agency today called for a combination of targeted and integrated policies to tackle the problem, thus significantly benefiting the global economy. More >>
Sudan: UN Warns Of Hepatitis Outbreak
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 2:34 pm | United Nations
The United Nations population agency today called for immediate action to avert an epidemic of hepatitis E among people who have lost their homes in Sudan's Darfur region, a day after an outbreak of the disease was confirmed in camps for internally ... More >>
Top UN Envoy For Burundi Visits Provinces
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 2:33 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy for Burundi today made her first visit outside the capital of the central African country, where there the world body is seeking to cement a multi-party, power-sharing government and pave the way to peace after more than a ... More >>
Conference On Native Administration Of Darfur
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 2:32 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy for Sudan today attended the opening of a conference to review a draft law on the native administration of the Darfur region, where fighting between rebels and Government forces since early 2003 has led to what senior UN officials ... More >>
Accelerated Aid For Internally Displaced Ugandans
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 2:32 pm | United Nations
With the number of internally displaced persons (IDP) in northern and eastern Uganda growing, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has welcomed a new Italian contribution to its expanded and accelerated response campaign to meet the needs of more than ... More >>
