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UN Welcomes Pakistan Chief Justice Reinstatement
Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 5:48 am | United Nations
Two UN experts today welcomed the reinstatement of Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry by the Supreme Court after being suspended this March by President Pervez Musharraf over unspecified allegations of "misuse of office." More >>
UN Helps In Afghanistan Polio Vaccination Campaign
Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 5:45 am | United Nations
UN agencies are helping Afghanistan's Health Ministry carry out a new nationwide polio vaccination, which aims eventually to protect over 7 million kids under the age of five from the highly infectious, often paralyzing and sometimes fatal disease. More >>
UN Evacuates Critically Ill Palestinian Children
Sunday, 5 August 2007, 2:33 pm | United Nations
After weeks of appeals for the urgent medical evacuation from Iraq of seriously ill Palestinians, most of them children, the United Nations refugee agency was able this week to transport the first four patients into Syria to receive much-needed medical ... More >>
UN Calls For Lebanese-Israeli Peace Cooperation
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 11:24 am | United Nations
The Security Council today voiced grave concern at persistent reports that the arms embargo along the Lebanese-Syrian border has been breached, militias in Lebanon are re-arming and there have been increasing Israeli violations. More >>
Sierra Leone Cops Get Workshop On Gender, Rights
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 11:21 am | United Nations
The UN in collaboration with Sierra Leone's Government today concluded a three-day workshop for national police officers covering gender issues, human rights, mediation and other topics in the formerly war-torn West African nation. More >>
Hate Speech Unleashing Ethnic Violence In DR Congo
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 9:39 am | United Nations
The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) today spoke out against incitements to ethnic violence in the country and called on the authorities to take action against those responsible. More >>
Ban Ki-moon Talks With Top Barbados Officials
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 9:34 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon held talks with senior officials in Barbados today on regional hotspots and environmental concerns, a spokesperson for the world body announced. More >>
UN & African Union Pre-negotiation Talks On Darfur
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 9:32 am | United Nations
The UN and African Union envoys tasked with reviving the Darfur peace process are preparing for talks starting this evening with leading figures from rebel groups that have not signed a key agreement aimed at bringing an end to the violence. More >>
UN Legal Chief Seeks Hariri Tribunal Candidates
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 6:52 am | United Nations
UN Member States are invited to submit names of candidates to be considered as international judges of an independent tribunal to try the suspected killers of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri. More >>
UN Agency Condemns Israeli Incursion Into School
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 6:48 am | United Nations
The United Nations agency entrusted with aiding Palestinian refugees today condemned an Israeli army incursion into one of its schools in southern Gaza, which left property damaged. More >>
UN, Int'l Experts To Examine Japan Nuclear Plant
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 6:31 am | United Nations
A six-member team of international nuclear safety experts, assembled by the UN atomic watchdog agency, is set to arrive in Japan on Sunday to begin a six-day mission to examine the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. More >>
UN Deal On Afghan Returnees Extended For 3 Years
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 6:28 am | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has extended by another three years its agreement with Pakistan and Afghanistan that has already regulated the voluntary repatriation of more than 3 million Afghans to their homeland since ... More >>
UNICEF Urges Somalia Rivals To Ensure Kid's Safety
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 6:25 am | United Nations
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) today voiced distress at the deadly impact of Somalia's violent conflict on children in Mogadishu, the capital, and called on all parties to ensure their safety and that of other civilians. More >>
Locust Infestation In Yemen Serious, UN Warns
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 6:22 am | United Nations
The locust infestation in Yemen remains "threatening and extremely serious" as egg-laying, hatching and band formation of the crop-devouring insects continue, with young immature adults forming small swarms and moving into agricultural land. More >>
UN Evacuates Critically Ill Palestinian Kids
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 6:19 am | United Nations
After weeks of appeals for the urgent medical evacuation from Iraq of seriously ill Palestinians, most of them children, the UN refugee agency was able this week to transport the first four patients into Syria to receive much-needed medical aid. More >>
WHO Helps Uganda Respond Marburg Disease -- UN
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 6:17 am | United Nations
The United Nations health agency is helping the Government of Uganda in outbreak response and containment activities following a confirmed case of Marburg virus disease, a rare but highly fatal haemorrhagic illness with epidemic potential, but there is ... More >>
Nepal: UN To Provide Food For Flood Victims
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 6:12 am | United Nations
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is sending up to three months worth of emergency rations to some 60,000 flood victims in Nepal after incessant rains over the past three weeks. More >>
UN Rescue Teams Rush To DR Congo Train Crash Site
Friday, 3 August 2007, 3:14 pm | United Nations
The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is sending doctors, nurses, emergency workers and rescue equipment to the centre of the vast country, where a train derailed last night, killing about 100 people. More >>
Africa To Be Focus Of Security Council This Month
Friday, 3 August 2007, 9:07 am | United Nations
The August 2007 work programme for the Security Council will focus largely on issues affecting Africa, its President for the month, Ambassador Pascal Gayama of the Republic of the Congo, announced today. More >>
Pollution Is Melting Himalayan Glaciers - UN Study
Friday, 3 August 2007, 8:08 am | United Nations
A new study of the role played by pollution-filled "brown clouds" over South Asia offers hope that the region may be able to arrest some of the alarming retreat of Himalayan glaciers which provide a lifeline for billions of people by feeding the ... More >>
