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Sri Lanka: UN Convoy To Evacuate Wounded
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 1:55 pm | United Nations
The United Nations said today it will attempt for the second time in three days to help evacuate by convoy hundreds of critically wounded civilians, including at least 50 children, from war-torn northern Sri Lanka. More >>
Darfur: Fighting Continues For Second Day
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 1:44 pm | United Nations
Aerial bombing and artillery fire continued for a second day on the outskirts of the city of El Fasher, North Darfur, where the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has its headquarters, the mission reported today. More >>
Iraq: UN Envoy Hails “Good Start” To Early Voting
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 1:41 pm | United Nations
As Iraq’s police, military, detainees and hospital-bound cast early ballots today, the top United Nations envoy hailed the orderly beginning of the strife-beset country’s governorate, or provincial, council elections to be held across the country on 31 ... More >>
N Stresses Need For Much Greater Access To Gaza
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 12:46 pm | United Nations
New York, Jan 28 2009 4:10PM Israel today reopened crossings into Gaza that it had closed yesterday following a bomb attack along the border that killed a soldier, but the top United Nations official in Gaza stressed that access remained a problem ... More >>
3,000 Dead As Cholera Crisis In Zimbabwe Worsens
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 9:45 am | United Nations
The death toll from Zimbabwe’s worst ever cholera epidemic has climbed to over 3,000, with more than 57,000 infected by the water-borne disease, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today. More >>
Darfur Remains Tense After Recent Fighting
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 9:42 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations peacekeeping official briefed the Security Council today on Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region, where the security situation remains tense following fighting between various rebel groups and the Government. More >>
Cypriot Leaders Resume Reunification Negotions
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 9:39 am | United Nations
Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders held talks today as part of United Nations-sponsored negotiations aimed at reunifying the Mediterranean island, with this round of talks focusing on property issues. More >>
Ban Lauds Bolivians For Peaceful Referendum
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 5:36 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated the people of Bolivia for taking part at the weekend in a peaceful national referendum approving the amendment of the country’s Constitution. More >>
Ivorian Parties Urged To Devise Realistic Plans
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 3:34 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today urged all political actors in Côte d’Ivoire to agree without delay on a “realistic” time frame for the long-postponed elections in the West African country, as it extended the United Nations mission there for another ... More >>
Israel Must Allow Rehabilitation Of Gaza - UN
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 2:11 pm | United Nations
Israel Must Allow Full Access For Aid And Supplies To Rehabilitate Gaza – UN Relief Chief More >>
Secretary-General Condemns Clashes In North Darfur
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 1:27 pm | United Nations
Strongly condemning today’s hostilities between rebels and Sudanese Armed Forces in North Darfur, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said continued military actions threaten civilian lives and jeopardize political efforts to reach a durable peace. More >>
UN Agencies In Drought-Ravaged Burundi
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 1:22 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) announced today that it has distributed thousands of tons of food to some of the most vulnerable in Burundi facing severe hunger, including almost 200,000 schoolchildren in the small East African country. More >>
UN rushing aid to civilians in Sri Lanka fighting
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 11:47 am | United Nations
Schoolgirls return from school to the Mavadivrampu camp for displaced people in eastern Sri Lanka More >>
Thousands Of Gazans Homeless
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 10:04 am | United Nations
Thousands of Gazans remain homeless and hospitals still have a large number of intensive care patients over a week after a ceasefire ended Israel’s devastating three-week offensive against Hamas militants, according to the latest United Nations update, ... More >>
Economic Turmoil Halts Upward Trend In Travel
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 10:01 am | United Nations
The current global economic slowdown brought the growth of international tourism to a standstill in 2008 and threatens to reverse the historic four-year gains made by the industry in foreign travel, according to a report published today by the United ... More >>
First-Ever Trial On Use Of Child Soldiers
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 3:40 pm | United Nations
Legal history was made today in The Hague, the Netherlands, when the International Criminal Court (ICC), which was mandated to try war crimes beginning in 2002, put its first suspect taken into custody, a Congolese warlord accused of recruiting child ... More >>
Concern At Length Of Custody For Illegal Migrants
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 2:33 pm | United Nations
A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today voiced concern about the length of time immigrants rescued off the coast of Malta spend in custody, saying it is not “in line with international human rights law.” More >>
Ethiopia Still Faces Food Insecurity
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 12:14 pm | United Nations
Although the October to November rainy season brought much relief to the drought-prone Somali Region of Ethiopia, reviving pastures and replenishing water sources, the rains were not enough to reduce overall food insecurity, the United Nations Office ... More >>
UNESCO Deplores Murders Of Journalists In Russia
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 11:16 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations agency tasked with upholding press freedom condemned the killings of journalists and a lawyer in Russia and Venezuela, underscoring that these murders are a contravention of human rights. More >>
UN Supports Return of Rwandan Ex-Fighters
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 9:44 am | United Nations
A programme to allow Rwandans who have been fighting with militias in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to visit their home country and see whether conditions are conducive to returning is a positive way to reduce recurrent violence, the top ... More >>
