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Call For UN Probe Of Aristide's Leaving Haiti
Friday, 12 March 2004, 12:05 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said the Security Council was responsible for deciding whether there should be an investigation of how President Jean-Bertrand Aristide came to leave Haiti. More >>
UN To Help With Khmer Rouge Courts Arrangements
Friday, 12 March 2004, 12:03 am | United Nations
A United Nations team has arrived in Cambodia to help with practical arrangements for launching the special court that will try former leaders of the Khmer Rouge. More >>
UN Humanitarian Mission Leaves For Haiti
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 10:54 am | United Nations
With United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan saying the international commitment to Haiti could be needed for "10 years or more," the first group from a UN multidisciplinary team went to the troubled Caribbean country today as humanitarian ... More >>
Project Aims To Clear Landmines From Bosnia
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 10:13 am | United Nations
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today announced a multimillion dollar project to help Bosnia and Herzegovina - Europe's most heavily landmine-affected country - eliminate the deadly threat posed by those weapons. More >>
UN in Talks With Rice Over Middle East Peace
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 10:12 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations envoy is in Washington today for a meeting with United States National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on the situation in the Middle East, including issues related to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposals concerning a withdrawal ... More >>
Libya Signs Accord For Enhanced Inspections
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 8:51 am | United Nations
Less than three months after renouncing all programmes leading to the production of internationally proscribed weapons, Libya today signed an agreement granting the United Nations atomic watchdog agency enhanced access to verify that its nuclear ... More >>
Urgent Food And Health Aid Needed For Namibia
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 8:44 am | United Nations
With erratic weather, severe poverty and the worsening HIV/AIDS epidemic compounding an acute crisis in Namibia, two United Nations agencies today launched emergency appeals totalling $5.8 million to help more than 600,000 orphans, vulnerable children ... More >>
Haiti: Aristide Loyalists Kill Spanish Journalist
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 8:42 am | United Nations
Deploring the killing of a Spanish television reporter covering a demonstration in Haiti, the head of the United Nations cultural organization has called on the authorities to punish those responsible for the shooting death. More >>
Hizbollah Fires asIsrael Invades Lebanese Airspace
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 8:39 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy for southern Lebanon today strongly deplored several overflights by Israeli aircraft in Lebanese airspace, which were followed by anti-aircraft fire from the Lebanese side of the line of withdrawal. More >>
Mental Health Research In Poor Countries Boosted
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 10:49 am | United Nations
With only 2 per cent of mental health studies in leading medical journals coming from the developing world, the United Nations health agency today announced a joint project with major journal editors to fill the shortfall through training and mentoring ... More >>
UN Team Makes Second Visit To Southern Iraq
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 10:47 am | United Nations
A United Nations team has visited southern Iraq to assess conditions there, just the second time since most international staff were withdrawn from the country following the deadly bombing of UN offices last August, the UN refugee agency said today. More >>
Angelina Jolie Urges Aid To Sudanese Refugees
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 10:46 am | United Nations
Actress Angelina Jolie, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has urged individuals and corporations around the world to donate money to help Sudanese refugees in Chad. More >>
Protection of Cultural Property in War Becomes Law
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 10:45 am | United Nations
A treaty stipulating that cultural heritage must be protected during war and that individual perpetrators of "crimes against culture" must be held responsible became law today in participating countries, the United Nations Educational, Scientific ... More >>
Date For Referenda On Cyprus Set For 20 April - UN
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 9:15 am | United Nations
To facilitate preparations for the conduct of referenda on each side, the top United Nations adviser on Cyprus has informed the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders that the date for a referendum has been set for 20 April, according to the UN mission ... More >>
Filming Begins On 1st Movie Shot At UN HQ
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 12:19 am | United Nations
Filming has begun on The Interpreter , the first movie to be shot inside the United Nations Headquarters in New York, after the UN gave formal permission to the movie's producers on Friday. More >>
Annan: New Russian Foreign Minister A Professional
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 12:17 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan is looking forward to working with the Russian Federation's incoming Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, the country's former Permanent Representative to the United Nations who was appointed to the new post today, a UN spokesman said. More >>
Creation Of UN Adviser On Prevention Of Genocide
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 12:03 am | United Nations
As the 10-year anniversary of the Rwandan genocide approaches, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today proposed the establishment of a Special Rapporteur or Adviser on the prevention of genocide. More >>
UN Appeal $35 Million In Emergency Aid For Haiti
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 12:02 am | United Nations
The United Nations today launched an emergency "Flash Appeal" for $35 million to meet the medical and nutritional needs of 3 million Haitians over the next six months. More >>
UN Assesses Global Hiv Status Of Women
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 11:54 am | United Nations
In just one decade women have moved from the margins of the HIV/AIDS pandemic to its very centre, a senior official from the United Nations women's fund said today as the world body observed http://www.un.org/events/women/iwd/2004/ International ... More >>
Computer Manufacturing Soaks Up Fossil Fuels
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 11:22 am | United Nations
The manufacture of an average desktop computer and monitor uses more than 10 times its weight in fossil fuels and chemicals, according to a United Nations University (UNU) study which has called for worldwide action to halt "the growth of high-tech ... More >>
