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UN Starts Peacekeeping Operation In Côte D'ivoire
Tuesday, 6 April 2004, 8:58 am | United Nations
As troops from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) transferred to the UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) at a ceremony today in the main commercial centre, Abidjan, Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged reconciliation among all concerned. More >>
Talks Begin in Iraq On Political Transition
Monday, 5 April 2004, 5:17 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Adviser, Lakhdar Brahimi, arrived in Iraq this evening at the invitation of the parties to help them with the transitional process, a United Nations spokesman announced. More >>
Human Rights Committee Examines Five Nations
Monday, 5 April 2004, 8:52 am | United Nations
The United Nations Human Rights Committee, ending its three-week examination of reports from five governments, found violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights governing domestic violence and warned that much counter-terrorism ... More >>
Israel Blocks Food To 600,000 Palestinians
Friday, 2 April 2004, 11:55 am | United Nations
The main United Nations relief agency for Palestine refugees today suspended emergency food aid to some 600,000 people in Gaza – about half of all those receiving such assistance in the occupied Palestinian territories – following new Israeli restrictions ... More >>
Zimbabwe: UN Children’s Agency Appeals For $124m
Friday, 2 April 2004, 11:53 am | United Nations
Faced with a breakdown in essential health and education services in Zimbabwe and a growing number of orphaned and vulnerable children, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) appealed to the international community for $124 million in humanitarian ... More >>
Use Of Force Spreads Summary Executions Continue
Friday, 2 April 2004, 11:52 am | United Nations
United Nations human rights experts addressing the Geneva-based UN Commission on Human Rights are warning of a global upsurge in illegal killings as well as the emerging threat of torture being used against persons with HIV/AIDS. More >>
Terrorism Fight Restricts Right To Free Expression
Friday, 2 April 2004, 11:49 am | United Nations
The legitimate efforts of many countries to prevent terrorism might be restricting the basic human right to information, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression told the UN Commission on Human Rights today. More >>
UN Mission Takes Control Of Kosovo's Main Airport
Friday, 2 April 2004, 11:45 am | United Nations
The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo today formally took control of the airport serving Pristina, the province's capital, ending five years of military authority over the transport hub. More >>
Security Council Breif On Cyprus Settlement Plan
Friday, 2 April 2004, 11:43 am | United Nations
With the final plan to reunify Cyprus before its entry into the European Union on 1 May now in the hands of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot voters for approval, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Adviser is scheduled to brief the Security Council tomorrow ... More >>
Swaziland, World's Highest Prevalence Of Aids
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 10:13 am | United Nations
Swaziland, with the highest prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS in the world, is undergoing socially wrenching changes, with some heads of families now as young as 8 and the number of orphans likely to rise to 10 or 15 per cent of the population by 2010, ... More >>
USA Holding Mexicans On Death Row Unlawful
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 10:12 am | United Nations
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) today ruled that the United States has breached its obligations under an international convention to 51 Mexicans on death row in US jails when it did not inform them of their right to contact their consular representatives ... More >>
Security Council Backs Corruption Probe
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 9:33 am | United Nations
The Security Council today gave its backing to an independent probe ordered by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to look into allegations of corruption within the United Nations Oil-for-Food humanitarian programme in Iraq. More >>
Nigerian-Italian Cooperation Against Human Traffic
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 9:30 am | United Nations
With 60 per cent of http://www.unicri.it/nigeria_website.htm trafficked women in a major Italian city coming from Nigeria, the United Nations justice institute said it was organizing an http://www.unicri.it/nigeria/Agenda_040401.pdf international ... More >>
Annan Urges Myanmar To Allow National Convention
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 9:28 am | United Nations
With Myanmar announcing that it will convene a national convention to draft a new constitution, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged the government to lift restrictions on democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and to allow the broadest ... More >>
Cliff-Top Massacre Gets Bosnian Serb 17 Years
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 9:26 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today sentenced a Bosnian Serb man to 17 years in prison for the massacre of more than 200 men in August 1992. More >>
Indigenous People From Western Colombia Displaced
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 11:51 am | United Nations
More than 1,200 Colombians from indigenous communities recently fled their ancestral homelands near the border with Panama because of heavy fighting between left-wing and right-wing forces, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ... More >>
Annan Mourns Loss Of Journalist Alistair Cooke
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 11:50 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today paid tribute to the New York-based British journalist Alistair Cooke, presenter of the famous "Letter from America" radio segment, who has died. More >>
Uzbekistan: Annan Denounces Series Of Bombings
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 11:49 am | United Nations
Saying crimes against civilians can never be justified, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today expressed his dismay at the series of terrorist bombings and other violent attacks in Uzbekistan in the past two days. More >>
Long-Term UN Presence In Post-Conflict Haiti
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 11:48 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special adviser on Haiti today called for a long-term international presence of some 20 years in the Caribbean country as it recovered from a series of reverses, but he said that mission must give ownership ... More >>
Security Council Extends Mission In Sierra Leone
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 11:36 am | United Nations
Extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) by another six months, the Security Council today endorsed plans to scale down the size of its peacekeeping force to a residual presence next year to give Government forces ... More >>
