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Success Of Iraqi Elections Hinge On Fairness
Thursday, 17 June 2004, 1:07 pm | United Nations
With elections in Iraq still on track for early next year, their ultimate success will hinge on a fair balloting process and assurances for Iraqis that their votes will be free from reprisal, a senior United Nations election official said today. More >>
Annan Calls For Peace Among Palestinians & Israel
Thursday, 17 June 2004, 11:14 am | United Nations
With opinion polls and other reports showing majorities among both Israelis and Palestinians ready for peace-making compromises, the leaders of both sides must not only listen to these people but must focus on them, according to United Nations Secretary-General ... More >>
Tougher Action Against Creeping Desert Urged
Thursday, 17 June 2004, 9:27 am | United Nations
With an estimated 135 million people at risk of being driven from their land because of continuing desertification, the world must focus more on reversing this trend, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a message to mark tomorrow’s ... More >>
Annan Receives South Africa’s Tambo Award
Thursday, 17 June 2004, 9:21 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today celebrated the achievements of post-apartheid South Africa as he was given the highest award for foreign nationals who have shown it solidarity, the Supreme Companion of O. R. Tambo, “an order of ... More >>
Danish Civil Servant Appointed UN Envoy For Kosovo
Thursday, 17 June 2004, 9:19 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has informed the Security Council that he intends to appoint Søren Jessen-Petersen of Denmark as his new Special Representative for Kosovo and the head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission (UNMIK), a UN spokesman ... More >>
Dire Situation For Women, Children In South Sudan
Thursday, 17 June 2004, 9:18 am | United Nations
A girl born in southern Sudan is 10 times more likely to die in childbirth or pregnancy than to complete primary school, a new study by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) shows as it observes Day of the African Child today. More >>
Annan Urges Russia To Focus On Millennium Goals
Wednesday, 16 June 2004, 11:34 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told a forum of economic policy-makers and business leaders from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) that they must keep focusing on achieving the Millennium Development ... More >>
161 Brazilian Troops Join Haiti UN Mission
Wednesday, 16 June 2004, 11:33 am | United Nations
The latest group of Brazilian troops arrived in Haiti today to join the United Nations peacekeeping mission gearing up to take over from the multinational force in the Caribbean nation later this month. More >>
Global Cereal Stocks Forecast To Drop
Wednesday, 16 June 2004, 10:38 am | United Nations
Global cereal stocks are expected to drop for the fifth consecutive year despite an increase in production in 2004, leading to the possibility of higher and more volatile prices in the coming marketing year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture ... More >>
More Sudanese Refugees Reaching Chad
Wednesday, 16 June 2004, 10:37 am | United Nations
The number of Sudanese refugees relocated to safe camps inside eastern Chad and away from the dangerous border is likely to top 100,000 later this week, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today, but hundreds more people are continuing ... More >>
Congolese Refugees Continue To Flood Into Burundi
Wednesday, 16 June 2004, 10:35 am | United Nations
With thousands of refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) fleeing either sporadic insurgent attacks or fighting against government forces, the United Nations refugee agency is investigating reports today that the number of Congolese ... More >>
50 Million People Being Hit By Low Donations
Wednesday, 16 June 2004, 10:29 am | United Nations
A mid-term review of United Nations Consolidated Appeals for nearly $3 billion to improve the lives of some 50 million people suffering in crises has shown a shortfall of $2.25 billion, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) ... More >>
Day Of African Child Marked By UNICEF
Wednesday, 16 June 2004, 10:28 am | United Nations
On the eve of the Day of the African Child, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today launched a global survey of the 121 million children who are not attending school that will be carried out by youngsters who are, with the aim of expanding ... More >>
UN marks World Day to Combat Desertification
Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 10:27 am | United Nations
BONN, June 14, 2004 - One fifth of the world’s population is threatened by the impacts of global desertification. Its effects can be seen all over the world, be it in Asia, the Sahel, Latin America, throughout North America or along the Mediterranean. ... More >>
Islamic States Urged To Foster Peace In Hotspots
Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 10:26 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged senior officials representing Muslim countries to back Iraq’s interim government, work for a comprehensive settlement to the Middle East conflict and press Sudan to halt attacks in the country’s Darfur ... More >>
Security Council Urged To Protect Civilians In War
Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 10:24 am | United Nations
At least 10 million people caught up in 20 separate wars around the world are cut off from access to aid workers, the United Nations’ top humanitarian official said today as he urged the Security Council to strengthen its efforts to protect civilians ... More >>
Mixed Progress In Helping Civilians In Darfur
Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 10:22 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies are making progress in bringing food and shelter to the more than one million people from the Darfur region of Sudan who are internally displaced or refugees because of conflict there, but they remain “way behind” in providing ... More >>
UN: Iran Must Be Open & Declare Nuclear Activities
Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 9:21 am | United Nations
Iran must be "proactive and fully transparent" in declaring its nuclear activities, and should do so within the next few months to allay suspicions about its programme, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency said today. More >>
Sudan: Govt, Militias Have Committed Attrocities
Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 9:20 am | United Nations
Government forces and their proxy militias have slaughtered civilians in villages in the Darfur region of Sudan, a United Nations human rights expert said yesterday after completing a 13-day tour of Sudan. Asma Jahangir, the Special Rapporteur on ... More >>
Afghan Voter Registration Passes 3.5million
Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 9:18 am | United Nations
More than 3.5 million Afghans have registered to vote, nearly 35 per cent of them women, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has reported. More >>
