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Sahara: First Refugee Family Visits In 30 Years
Monday, 23 February 2004, 11:22 am | United Nations
Western Saharan families divided for nearly three decades since the outbreak of war on Spain’s withdrawal from the area will be able to embrace and talk to each other again under a United Nations-sponsored family visit air shuttle programme scheduled ... More >>
New Safety Corridor For Sudanese Refugees In Chad
Monday, 23 February 2004, 11:21 am | United Nations
Efforts to relocate thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan are set to move into higher gear tomorrow with the opening of a third transfer route away from the volatile border area to safer camps further inside Chad, the ... More >>
Justice Louise Arbour Top UN Human Rights Official
Monday, 23 February 2004, 11:20 am | United Nations
Louise Arbour, a Canadian Supreme Court Justice and ex-prosecutor of United Nations war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, will be named the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - succeeding Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was ... More >>
Annan Will Name Special Adviser On Haiti
Monday, 23 February 2004, 11:18 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan intends to name a Special Adviser for Haiti to establish high-level contacts with the mediating regional organizations during the Caribbean country’s political crisis and to advise him on possible future United Nations work ... More >>
Timor-Leste Has Made Remarkable Progress
Monday, 23 February 2004, 11:17 am | United Nations
While Timor-Leste has progressed impressively since gaining independence, the fragility of its national security means that the United Nations should maintain a presence there for a year beyond the end of its mission’s mandate in May, a senior UN peacekeeping ... More >>
UN Lebanon Mission Contains Regional Tension
Friday, 20 February 2004, 2:05 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is serving to contain violence in the volatile region, the outgoing head of the operation said today. More >>
Iraq: UN Election Team Calls Mission Successful
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:52 pm | United Nations
The head of a United Nations team studying the feasibility of elections in Iraq before the transfer of sovereignty from the United States-led occupation authorities by 30 June today described his mission as successful and promising. More >>
Poverty Reduction Campaign Launched In Bolivia
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:51 pm | United Nations
Some 1,200 Bolivian university graduates will fan out across the South American country over the next two years to fight poverty, empower women and promote small and family businesses under a new United Nations Volunteers ( UN V) programme. More >>
UN Helps Reconstructing Quake-Devastated Bam
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:50 pm | United Nations
Using earthquake-resistant technology, United Nations agencies will help Iran reconstruct the historic Silk Road city of Bam after the devastating December quake that claimed more than 43,000 lives and destroyed homes, schools, offices and other infrastructure, ... More >>
Iraq Elections Cannot Be Held Before 30 June
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:49 pm | United Nations
Citing an “emerging consensus,” United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said elections cannot be organized in Iraq before the 30 June deadline for a transfer of sovereignty – a date he said should be “respected.” More >>
10,000 Burundian Refugees Return From Tanzania
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:48 pm | United Nations
More than 10,000 Burundian refugees have returned home from Tanzania in the first month and a half of this year, bound for destinations that include the previously insecure eastern Ruyigi province, the United Nations refugee agency said today. More >>
Int. Law Must Protect Indigenous Rights
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:47 pm | United Nations
Existing international rules about protecting intellectual property rights are an affront to the customs of many indigenous peoples and need to be revamped, according to a new report by the Tokyo-based United Nations University (UNU). More >>
Aid For Côte D'ivoire Could Stave Off Instability
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:32 pm | United Nations
Failure to increase international assistance to post-conflict Côte d'Ivoire for the disarmament of its militias could lead to the destabilization of precarious neighbouring countries, the United Nations aid coordinating office said today. More >>
DR Congo: Un Troops Arrest 13 Militia Members
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:29 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) has arrested members of a militia suspected of planning an attack near a market in the eastern province of Ituri and involved in an exchange of shots that wounded an investigating ... More >>
Call For Improved African Commodity Trading
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:28 pm | United Nations
While industrialized countries undermine Africa's anti-poverty efforts with huge subsidies for their own commodity producers, the continent's own non-fuel exports have lost international market share over the last two decades, the United Nations ... More >>
Greek And Turkish Cypriot Leaders Meet
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:13 pm | United Nations
The Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders met for direct talks today in Cyprus as negotiations resumed on a plan by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to reunify the island nation before its entry into the European Union on 1 May. More >>
Assessment Of Humanitarian Needs In Northern Haiti
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:12 pm | United Nations
A United Nations team today begins assessing the humanitarian situation in two northern Haitian towns as unrest blocks access to parts of the troubled country, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. More >>
Iraq/UN Reform Top Agenda Of Annan's Trip To Japan
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:11 pm | United Nations
Global issues such as Iraq and United Nations reform top the agenda as Secretary-General Kofi Annan heads to Japan tomorrow on a five-day official visit, his first in two years. More >>
Security Cl Calls For End To Violence in Haiti
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 11:08 am | United Nations
Condemning the recent deadly clashes in Haiti, members of the United Nations Security Council today called on the government and opposition to restore confidence and dialogue, overcoming their differences peacefully and democratically through constitutional ... More >>
Annan Recommends Continued UN Presence in Timor
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 11:04 am | United Nations
With the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMISET) set to end in May, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has issued a special report to the Security Council hailing recent progress in the country while urging a continued international ... More >>
