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Kidnapping Attempt Of Women In Darfur
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 10:10 am | United Nations
Troops from the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, tasked with protecting civilians and suppressing the bloody conflict in the region, have foiled an attempted abduction of several women who had strayed outside a makeshift ... More >>
STF's In Bangladeshi Refugee Camps
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 10:09 am | United Nations
A series of measures taken by the United Nations refugee agency, including using community health workers to distribute condoms out of their homes, has dramatically reduced the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among refugees in ... More >>
Children Must Be Protected Amid Gaza Conflict
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 10:07 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today called on the parties to the ongoing conflict in Gaza to ensure the protection of children, some 300 of whom have been killed and more than 1,500 wounded since the crisis began on 27 December, ... More >>
2,000 Lives Now Lost To Zimbabwe’s Cholera
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 3:00 pm | United Nations
The death toll in Zimbabwe’s worst ever cholera outbreak has now topped 2,000, with more than 100 deaths – and nearly 1,500 new cases – added just today, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported. More >>
34 UN Staff Members Killed In 2008
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 2:53 pm | United Nations
A radio reporter in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a schoolteacher in Gaza, seven food aid truck drivers in Sudan and Somalia and ten peacekeepers in Darfur are among the 34 United Nations staff members killed by malicious acts in 2008, the ... More >>
Combatants In DR Congo To Release Child Soldiers
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 12:11 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today launched a new appeal for armed groups in the eastern region of the vast war-torn country to release all children remaining in their ranks. More >>
Please Secure Ceasefire
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 12:09 pm | United Nations
A senior United Nations official in Gaza warned today that “tragically the horror continues,” with 19 children reported killed and 52 injured in just the last 24 hours of Israeli-Hamas fighting, even as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefed the ... More >>
Food Aid Convoy
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 12:07 pm | United Nations
Food aid for some 250,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad is on its way in convoys travelling some 2,800 kilometres through the Sahara desert from Libya, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today. More >>
UN Stands Ready To Assist In Fiji
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 12:06 pm | United Nations
United Nations agencies are standing by to provide assistance to Fiji where heavy rains over recent days have caused severe flooding in the Pacific island nation, causing at least seven deaths and the evacuation of over 6,500 people. More >>
Seeking Golden Goal Against Hunger
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 12:05 pm | United Nations
A team of former European football stars, their eyes no longer on landing the ball in the net, are looking to score another kind of goal this week when they visit Egypt as part of the global battle against hunger in the latest collaboration between the ... More >>
Ugandan Rebels Killed Over 500 In Eastern DR Congo
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 12:03 pm | United Nations
A notorious Ugandan rebel group has killed more than 500 people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and kidnapped over 400, including several over the past four days, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today. More >>
Effect Of Conflict On Gaza’s Children
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 12:02 pm | United Nations
The United Nations body monitoring a key global treaty enshrining the rights of children voiced its deep concern today at the impact of the ongoing conflict in Gaza, which has killed or injured hundreds of young people, and warned that the effects of recent ... More >>
New UN Guide Aims To Boost Crime Prevention
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 12:00 pm | United Nations
13 January 2009 – With homicides, property crime and sexual assault exponentially higher in the Caribbean and southern Africa than the rest of the world, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today released a handbook on prevention ... More >>
Ethiopian Troops Leave Somalia
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 11:41 am | United Nations
13 January 2009 – As Ethiopian troops withdraw from Mogadishu two years after rolling in to support the embattled Government from a growing insurgency, the top United Nations envoy to Somalia today urged local factions to ensure peace and stability ... More >>
Victims Hit By Costa Rican Earthquake
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 11:39 am | United Nations
13 January 2009 – At least 13 people have died and 56 are still missing after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake shook Costa Rica last week, the United Nations humanitarian arm reported today while announcing a field visit to assess makeshift shelters accommodating ... More >>
Rising Number Of Somalis Fleeing To Kenya
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 3:43 pm | United Nations
With Somali refugees continuing to flood into Kenya for relief from violence and drought, the United Nations emergency relief fund has targeted five million dollars to cover gaps in their nutritional needs, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian ... More >>
Ban To Help Promote Gaza Ceasefire
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 3:39 pm | United Nations
On the eve of his departure for wide-ranging, high-level talks in the Middle East to help broker a ceasefire in the Gaza conflict, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Israel and Hamas to immediately stop fighting. More >>
UN-Backed DR Congo Peace Talks
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 3:38 pm | United Nations
New York, Jan 12 2009 3:10PM The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a mainly Tutsi rebel group have set the stage for substantive dialogue and have turned their attention to a joint cessation of hostilities, the United Nations ... More >>
Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 11:08 am | United Nations
Talks between the representatives of Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on the name of the latter country will take place in New York on 11 February, the United Nations official spearheading the discussions announced today. More >>
Gaza: Horrific Hospital Scenes Of Casualties
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:33 am | United Nations
Appalled that fighting was still continuing in Gaza despite the Security Council’s ceasefire resolution, senior United Nations officials said today they were horrified at the human costs amid reports that over 40 per cent of the nearly 900 Palestinians ... More >>
