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Annan: World Trade Imbalances Are Discriminatory
Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 9:17 am | United Nations
If new rules aiming to free world trade then throw up barriers of their own, the problem is not lack of coherence but the kind of discrimination which people are expecting the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to oppose, ... More >>
10 Million Children Exploited For Domestic Labour
Monday, 14 June 2004, 10:33 am | United Nations
Up to 10 million children – mostly girls – are trapped in low-paid jobs as domestic servants, where they are at risk of sexual abuse, physical exploitation and human trafficking, the International Labour Organization (ILO) says in a new http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/event/cl2004/index.htm ... More >>
G-8 Backing For Accelerating Hiv Vaccine Welcomed
Monday, 14 June 2004, 10:31 am | United Nations
Two United Nations agencies today welcomed the endorsement by the leaders of the Group of Eight most-industrialized countries of a new international consortium for accelerating the development of an HIV vaccine. More >>
Nearly 3,000 Congolese Refugees Arrive In Burundi
Monday, 14 June 2004, 10:29 am | United Nations
Nearly 3,000 refugees who have fled to Burundi following recent fighting in the eastern Congolese city of Bukavu are receiving enough assistance to last them for 10 days, the United Nations refugee agency said today. Smaller numbers were still crossing ... More >>
UN Officials Condemn Attempted Coup In Dr Congo
Monday, 14 June 2004, 10:28 am | United Nations
As the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was being normalized after an attempted coup early today in its capital, United Nations officials condemned the uprising and pledged to help the country’s transitional political process. More >>
Uganda: Rebels Urged To Stop Attacking Civilians
Monday, 14 June 2004, 10:27 am | United Nations
Deploring the murder of 128 people over the past month in a series of massacres by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda, the top United Nations humanitarian official today called on the rebel group to stop attacking civilians immediately. More >>
Kosovo: Envoy To Head Un Probe Into March Violence
Monday, 14 June 2004, 10:25 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Ambassador Kai Eide of Norway to investigate the wave of ethnic violence that roiled Kosovo in mid-March, leaving 19 people dead, hundreds injured and many homes and Serbian religious and ... More >>
UN Delivers Food To Darfur's Malnourished Children
Monday, 14 June 2004, 10:24 am | United Nations
The World Food Programme (WFP) will deliver high-energy biscuits to more than 13,000 malnourished children in Darfur in western Sudan tomorrow as part of the stepped-up effort of the United Nations to alleviate the war-torn region’s humanitarian crisis. More >>
James Baker, Annan’s Western Sahara Envoy Resigns
Monday, 14 June 2004, 10:22 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, James A. Baker III of the United States, has resigned, a spokesperson for the United Nations said today. More >>
Security Council Sends Advance Team To Sudan
Monday, 14 June 2004, 10:20 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today endorsed Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s proposal for an advance team to travel to Sudan ahead of a planned political mission as expectations rise that a peace deal will soon be signed to end a long-running ... More >>
UN Force To Remain In Cyprus For 6 Months
Monday, 14 June 2004, 10:19 am | United Nations
UN Force In To Remain In Cyprus For 6 Months During Review Of Future Mandate More >>
UN Urges IMF To Ease Pressure on Zambia
Monday, 14 June 2004, 10:18 am | United Nations
Following serious attempts to pay its debts, Zambia will test the recent pledge by the Group of Eight (G-8) rich countries to help poorer nations when it seeks flexibility from the International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org/ (IMF) next week, the United ... More >>
Europe Virtually Free Of Foot-And-Mouth Disease
Friday, 11 June 2004, 11:46 am | United Nations
Europe is almost free of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease after a long history of devastating epidemics, but the continent’s livestock industry should remain vigilant against possible future outbreaks, the United Nations Food and Agriculture ... More >>
Afghanistan: 11 Chinese Workers Killed
Friday, 11 June 2004, 10:39 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy for Afghanistan today strongly condemned the killing of 11 construction workers from China during an attack on their compound last night on the outskirts of the northern city of Kunduz. More >>
Major UN Meeting On Small Island States Set
Friday, 11 June 2004, 10:38 am | United Nations
Climate change, fragile ecosystems, economic vulnerability, geographic isolation and other concerns of small island developing countries will be taken up at a major United Nations conference set for early 2005 to examine a decade’s worth of efforts ... More >>
Gabon Foreign Minister Elected UN GA Session Pres
Friday, 11 June 2004, 10:37 am | United Nations
Foreign Minister Jean Ping of Gabon was elected today to preside over the fifty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, which is scheduled to open on 14 September. More >>
Violence Creates Huge Economic Cost For Countries
Thursday, 10 June 2004, 10:40 am | United Nations
Violence exacts a huge financial toll above and beyond the physical and emotional devastation it causes, with violence-related injuries costing some countries more than 4 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP), a report issued today by the ... More >>
Rebel Forces Withdraw From Eastern Congo
Thursday, 10 June 2004, 10:37 am | United Nations
Rebel forces have withdrawn from Bukavu, a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that they seized last week, and sporadic shooting has died down as government troops have re-entered the town, the United Nations Organization Mission ... More >>
Beijing UN Hosts Middle East Peace Media Seminar
Thursday, 10 June 2004, 10:32 am | United Nations
Policy-makers and senior journalists from around the world will gather in Beijing next week for a two-day seminar, co-hosted by the United Nations and China, focusing on “the role of civil society in promoting a just and lasting peace in the Middle ... More >>
UN: Students & Diplomats Engage On Future Of Iraq
Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 11:32 am | United Nations
The future of Iraq, and the role of the United Nations and the international community in helping the reconstruction of the country in the aftermath of the war, was the focus of a student-diplomat summit Monday at UN Headquarters in New York. More >>
