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Deadly Post-Election Protests In Armenia
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 9:48 am | United Nations
The United Nations human rights chief today voiced deep concern at reports that at least eight people have been killed and many others injured during demonstrations in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, where the results of recent presidential elections ... More >>
Worsening Conflict In Gaza Leaves Children At Risk
Monday, 3 March 2008, 10:12 am | United Nations
UNICEF today voiced its deep concern at the escalating conflict in the Gaza Strip, warning both Israel and the Palestinians to "take all feasible measures" to ensure the protection and care of children caught up in the violence. More >>
Iraq: Kidnapping Of Christian Leader Denounced
Monday, 3 March 2008, 10:11 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations official in Iraq has condemned yesterday's kidnapping of a Catholic Chaldean archbishop in an attack in the northern city of Mosul that led to the killing of the religious leader's driver and two of his bodyguards. More >>
Fuel Allowed To Gaza, Other Crossings Still Closed
Monday, 3 March 2008, 10:05 am | United Nations
Today's opening means the electricity situation inside Gaza, home to an estimated 1.4 million people, has returned to where it was last week, according to UNSCO. That means power cuts of up to 12 hours a day in Gaza City and central Gaza. More >>
UN Refugee Chief To Head To Uganda And Tanzania
Monday, 3 March 2008, 10:04 am | United Nations
While in Tanzania, António Guterres will kick off a 2-year programme to bring an end to one of the world's oldest protracted refugee situations: the exile of some 218,000 people from Burundi who were forced to flee their country in 1972. More >>
Iraq: Envoy Speaks Against Attacks On Journalists
Monday, 3 March 2008, 10:03 am | United Nations
Attacks against media representatives are tantamount to "repressing press freedom and freedom of expression that are an essential component of democracy," he said in a statement issued in Baghdad. The killing of Mr. al-Tamimi is an example. More >>
Bosnia Court Jails Former Guards After UN Referral
Monday, 3 March 2008, 10:02 am | United Nations
Two Bosnian Serb guards who persecuted non-Serbs at a prison camp during the Balkan wars of the 1990s have been convicted and sentenced to jail by a national court in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the case was transferred. More >>
Afghanistan: UN Rushes Aid As Livestock Sector Hit
Monday, 3 March 2008, 10:00 am | United Nations
The harshest winter weather conditions in nearly three decades has devastated Afghanistan's livestock - with over 300,000 animals dying since last December - and the United Nations is providing support by sending some 80 tons of feed to the hardest-hit farmers. More >>
Lebanon: EU Takes Wheel Of UN Coastal Fleet
Monday, 3 March 2008, 9:59 am | United Nations
A European naval group today took command of United Nations peacekeeping's first-ever maritime task force (MTF), which was deployed off the coast of Lebanon in 2006 to curtail arms smuggling following that year's war between Israel and Hizbollah. More >>
UN: Refugees Fleeing New Attacks In Darfur
Monday, 3 March 2008, 9:59 am | United Nations
As West Darfur continues to be scourged by a new wave of air and ground attacks, the United Nations refugee agency estimated today that more than 13,000 Sudanese have fled to a remote area of Chad that is beset by its own inter-ethnic strife. More >>
Eritrean Obstruction Strands 100+ Blue Helmets
Monday, 3 March 2008, 9:58 am | United Nations
Eritrea's latest obstruction of the efforts by the United Nations peacekeeping mission to temporarily relocate across the border in Ethiopia have resulted in more than 100 blue helmets being stranded inside the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ). More >>
UN And USA Critical Partners On Many Global Issues
Monday, 3 March 2008, 9:57 am | United Nations
In finding solutions for the Darfur conflict, global warming, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and a host of other issues, the United Nations and the United States were essential partners, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. More >>
Deepening Drought In Central Somalia Alarming - UN
Monday, 3 March 2008, 9:56 am | United Nations
29 February 2008 - United Nations humanitarian agencies and their partner non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are stepping up their support in central Somalia, where the drought has worsened, leaving many rural families destitute as water shortages become ... More >>
UN Provides Vaccines To Yellow Fever Victims
Friday, 29 February 2008, 4:54 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has organized the supply of two million doses of yellow fever vaccine to Paraguay as health authorities in the South American country battle a deadly outbreak of the viral disease. More >>
Convicted Rwandan Journalist To End Term In Italy
Friday, 29 February 2008, 8:42 am | United Nations
A journalist and presenter convicted by a UN war crimes tribunal for his work with a notorious Rwandan radio station that called for the killing of Tutsis during the country's 1994 genocide will serve the remainder of his jail sentence in Italy. More >>
Respect For Rights Urged, Regardless Of HIV Status
Friday, 29 February 2008, 8:40 am | United Nations
In a statement, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) urged "all governments to be vigilant in respecting and protecting the rights of individuals in this regard. More >>
Housing Rights Of Hurricane Katrina Victims
Friday, 29 February 2008, 8:39 am | United Nations
UN experts on housing and minority rights today called on the U.S. Government to halt the demolition of public housing and protect the human rights of African-Americans affected by Hurricane Katrina, which battered New Orleans in 2005. More >>
UNHCR Seeks $19M To Aid Sri Lanka's Displaced
Friday, 29 February 2008, 8:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is appealing for $18.6 million to assist an estimated 500,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka who have been uprooted by decades of armed conflict. More >>
Mideast: Ban Ki-moon Concerned At Rising Violence
Friday, 29 February 2008, 8:38 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed deep concern at the recent escalation of violence in southern Israel and Gaza, including the loss of civilian life resulting from rocket fire by Hamas and strikes by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF). More >>
Ban Welcomes Accord 'Breakthrough' In Kenya
Friday, 29 February 2008, 8:37 am | United Nations
Urging further measures to end the deadly tensions that erupted after disputed presidential elections in Kenya, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warmly welcomed the agreement on principles for a coalition Government announced in Nairobi today. More >>
