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Action Needed To Stop Child Trafficking In Africa
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 8:43 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has urged the Governments of West and Central Africa to take action to protect children from human trafficking, which not only harms innocent lives but also efforts to secure peace in countries ... More >>
UN Relief Official Visits Ethiopia's Ogaden Region
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 8:43 am | United Nations
The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator arrived in Ethiopia today to visit the strife-torn Ogaden region where over 640,000 people are in urgent need of food, water, medical supplies and other assistance More >>
UNESCO Mission Heads To Bangladesh After Cyclone
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 8:42 am | United Nations
The mission will focus particularly on the Sundarbans mangrove forest, which was inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1997, the agency said in a press statement issued at its Paris headquarters. More >>
Piecemeal Approaches Will Not Resolve Conflict
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 8:41 am | United Nations
It is time to "abandon piecemeal approaches" to resolving the Middle East conflict and start final status negotiations that deal with all the issues in dispute, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an international meeting on the region being held today in the United ... More >>
Quartet Voices Support For Conference In Annapolis
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 8:41 am | United Nations
The diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East, made up of the United Nations, European Union, Russian Federation and United States, has voiced its full support for a conference on the region being held today in the US city of Annapolis. More >>
UN Declares 20 Feb As World Day Of Social Justice
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 3:08 pm | United Nations
Recognizing the need to promote efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion and unemployment, the United Nations General Assembly has decided to observe 20 February annually - starting in 2009 - as the World Day of Social Justice. More >>
Internet Campaign To Stop Violence Against Women
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 3:07 pm | United Nations
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Goodwill Ambassador and Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman became the first today to add her name to a new Internet campaign aimed at eliminating violence against women. More >>
Philippines: Military Executing Leftist Activists
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 3:07 pm | United Nations
The armed forces of the Philippines has been executing leftist activists in recent years, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today in a new report which welcomes Government measures to address the problem while emphasizing the need ... More >>
Darfur: Key Units Arrive Ahead Of Hybrid Force
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 10:25 am | United Nations
Chinese and Bangladeshi units that will form part of the hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur (UNAMID) have arrived in the war-torn Sudanese region to help in the transition from the existing AU peace operation (AMIS). More >>
Revitalized General Assembly Crucial, Says Pres.
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 10:04 am | United Nations
Underscoring its role as the chief deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations, the President of the General Assembly today urged Member States to impart new vigour into the 192-member body to make it stronger and more ... More >>
More Clashes In DRC North Kivu Will Harm Civilians
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 9:40 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has called on parties in the country's troubled North Kivu province to avoid any actions that could harm the already beleaguered civilian population in the area. More >>
UN Humanitarian Chief Begins 3-Nation Africa Tour
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 8:53 am | United Nations
The top United Nations humanitarian official begins a nine-day mission to Africa today that will take him to Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya to meet with aid agencies and officials coping with emergencies affecting millions of people on the continent. More >>
E. Timor: Successful Weapons Recovery Operation
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 8:40 am | United Nations
The United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) today announced that its police officers, working alongside their Timorese counterparts with support from the International Security Forces (ISF) have completed a successful weapons recovery operation in a ... More >>
Calls For Pakistan Press Restrictions To Be Lifted
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 8:39 am | United Nations
Voicing concern over continued press freedom repression in Pakistan, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today reiterated his call to President Pervez Musharraf to lift media restrictions.Voicing ... More >>
Liberia: Highlighting Importance Of Rule Of Law
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 8:39 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy to Liberia has handed over recently renovated Circuit and Magistrate's courts in the southeast of the war-torn nation, underscoring the importance of the rule of law which he characterized as "the firmest pillar of good ... More >>
Bosnian Muslim Army Chief Temporarily Released
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 8:38 am | United Nations
Mr. Delic, who served as Commander of the Main Staff of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina from June 1993 until September 2005, is charged on the basis of his command responsibility for murder, cruel treatment and rape committed by his subordinate forces. More >>
Ban Ki-moon Concerned About Violence In Bolivia
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 8:37 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced concern over recent violent confrontations as the Bolivian Constituent Assembly meets in the southern city of Sucre. More >>
UN Envoy Discusses Burma Crisis With Vietnam
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 8:37 am | United Nations
The Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Myanmar is meeting with officials in Viet Nam as part of his consultations with regional leaders on the situation in the South-East Asian nation where Government forces cracked down on peaceful protesters just a few ... More >>
UN Campaign To Fight Violence Against Women
Monday, 26 November 2007, 9:08 am | United Nations
In a message marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, commemorated on 25 November, Mr. Ban hailed progress in addressing the issue, but said there is "so much left to do to tear down the veil of tolerance which still ... More >>
Calm Urged After Lebanon Postpones Pres. Election
Monday, 26 November 2007, 9:07 am | United Nations
Reacting to the fifth postponement of the Lebanese presidential election beyond the term of the current incumbent, Emile Lahoud, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged all parties to maintain calm and further intensify efforts to ... More >>
