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Burundi: Concerns Over 1000s Cut Off By Fighting
Friday, 5 March 2004, 9:17 am | United Nations
Voicing “extreme concern,” the United Nations emergency food agency said today an upsurge in fighting over past weeks in parts of Burundi has prevented it from feeding thousands of newly displaced people. More >>
Drought & Hiv/Aids Prolong Lesotho’s Misery
Friday, 5 March 2004, 9:15 am | United Nations
Lesotho’s humanitarian crisis has entered a third year because of another severe drought and the worsening impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the United Nations envoy to Southern Africa warned today ahead of a visit by senior UN officials to the small ... More >>
Nutritious Meals To Quake-Hit Morocco
Friday, 5 March 2004, 9:14 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a $200,000 emergency operation to assist the victims of last month’s earthquake that devastated the Al-Hoceima region in northeastern Morocco. More >>
Annan's Special Envoy On Haiti Goes To Jamaica
Friday, 5 March 2004, 12:20 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sga867.doc.htm Special Envoy to Haiti, John Reginald Dumas, went to Jamaica today for talks on peace-building in Haiti with Jamaican Prime Minister Percival J. Patterson, the chairman of the ... More >>
WHO Warns:No Speedy End To Asian Bird Flu Epidemic
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 10:02 am | United Nations
With more poultry affected over the past two months in the current bird flu epidemic in Asia than the total number in the world’s five previous largest outbreaks combined, the United Nations health agency has warned that it could take years to bring the ... More >>
Africa To Dominate March Security Council Program
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 9:59 am | United Nations
The Security Council’s schedule for March will be dominated by African issues, especially efforts to guarantee stability in the western part of the continent, the incoming Council President said today. More >>
Guatemala: Stepped-Up Efforts To Addr Abuses Urged
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 9:48 am | United Nations
Five years after the publication of a major report on human rights in Guatemala, the United Nations mission in the country today said more efforts are needed to implement its recommendations. More >>
HIV/AIDS Festers In Climate Of Prison
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 9:46 am | United Nations
Drug addiction, human trafficking and prison together form a “trilogy” of conditions contributing to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said today. More >>
Sudan Peace Talks Taking Place In Kenya
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 9:45 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Adviser on Africa has travelled to Kenya to observe the negotiations there aimed at ending Sudan's 20-year civil war. More >>
Accountability Report On UN Security In Iraq Nears
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 9:39 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan is set to receive today the report of an expert team investigating what went wrong with United Nations security procedures prior to the deadly terrorist attack last August against the UN office in Baghdad. More >>
Sexual Violence During Liberian Civil War
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 12:28 am | United Nations
Human rights monitors are travelling around Liberia documenting crimes of sexual violence during the country's 14-year civil war in a project backed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). More >>
UN Vetting Of Bosnian Police Must Improve
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 12:27 am | United Nations
While Bosnia and Herzegovina has made real achievements in defence, intelligence reform, customs and indirect tax, the growing number of challenges to the United Nations-led police certification process requires attention, the Security Council ... More >>
UNICEF Airlifts Emergency Supplies To Haiti
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 12:25 am | United Nations
A United Nations airlift of emergency supplies arrived today in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, as the city resumed some of its normal activities despite pockets of insecurity. More >>
Hiv/Aids: UN Appeals For Anti-Retroviral Drugs
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 12:23 am | United Nations
With a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative to provide anti-retroviral treatment for 3 million people with HIV/AIDS by 2005 running into a roadblock for lack of funding, a senior United Nations official appealed today, especially to the 30 richest countries, ... More >>
UN: Women Hold Key To Eradicating Poverty
Tuesday, 2 March 2004, 11:15 am | United Nations
Women hold the key to eradicating poverty worldwide, but must be supported in their efforts to lead families, societies and nations towards prosperity, senior United Nations officials told an intergovernmental meeting in New York today. More >>
Return Of Millions Who Fled Africa’s Conflicts
Tuesday, 2 March 2004, 9:06 am | United Nations
With millions of refugees from Africa’s conflicts facing their first chance in many years to return home where they would join millions more internally displaced by war, the United Nations refugee agency will bring together key African ministers, ... More >>
Asia-Pacific Need Stronger Alliances to Meet Goals
Tuesday, 2 March 2004, 9:05 am | United Nations
Governments and civil society organizations need to cooperate better if the Asia-Pacific region is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a senior United Nations official has told a two-day workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal. More >>
UN To Train Afghan Police For Elections
Tuesday, 2 March 2004, 9:03 am | United Nations
Efforts to train 20,000 police officers for Afghanistan’s elections are gathering additional momentum this month with a series of expanded intensive courses in the north and the southeast, according to the United Nations mission in the country ( ... More >>
International UN PeaceMaking Force Sent To Haiti
Monday, 1 March 2004, 4:58 pm | United Nations
Acting just hours after Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned as President of Haiti, the United Nations Security Council this evening unanimously authorized the immediate deployment of a Multinational Interim Force to the troubled nation. More >>
Rapid Deployment Forces Crucial To Un Peacekeeping
Monday, 1 March 2004, 10:59 am | United Nations
With regional military forces being strengthened for rapid deployment, the United Nations can now deploy multinational peacekeeping troops as part of a series of steps reinforcing strategic partnerships, especially in Africa, Secretary-General Kofi ... More >>
