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China Joins To Combat Environmental Crime
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:34 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is joining forces with China to help customs officials in the Asia Pacific region to prevent the smuggling of banned chemicals and endangered species. More >>
Call For Women’s Rights In Middle East
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:33 pm | United Nations
The President of the United Nations General Assembly, a lawyer and rights advocate from Bahrain, has issued a strong call for addressing the social, educational and other constraints impeding the equality of women in the Middle East. More >>
Palestinian-Israeli Violence On The Rise
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:32 pm | United Nations
Following the Palestinian ceasefire, which took effect yesterday, internal violence has calmed in the Gaza strip, though Palestinian-Israeli clashes have escalated, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said ... More >>
Probe Into Post-Election Violence In Dr Congo
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:31 pm | United Nations
Though it has interviewed some 200 victims and witnesses of the post-election clashes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations mission there said today that Government cooperation with investigators has been tepid and many witnesses ... More >>
UN Says It Will Not Tolerate Violence In Timor
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:30 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy in Timor-Leste has expressed concern at signs of a resurgence of gang fighting and mob violence in the nation's capital, Dili, in the past 24 hours. More >>
'Food Force' Video Game Sweeps Northern Europe
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:30 pm | United Nations
As Europe's largest games industry event gets underway in Sweden, "Food Force," the world's first humanitarian video game for children, is celebrating the launch of three new language versions, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has ... More >>
Security Council Extends UN Peacekeeping Force
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:29 pm | United Nations
Aiming to help the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) cement stability, the Security Council today extended the deployment of the United Nations peacekeeping mission there until the end of this year. More >>
Ban Ki-Moon Vows To Boost Cooperation
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:29 pm | United Nations
Praising the cooperative relationship between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today anticipated strengthening these ties in the years ahead. More >>
Return Of Thousands Who Fled Conflict Zone
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:28 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency announced today that it had begun helping Sri Lanka return over 90,000 displaced civilians who had fled heavy fighting in February between Government and rebel troops. More >>
Urgent Health Care Needed for Palestinians Camp
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:27 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency said today it is “highly concerned” over living conditions for hundreds of Palestinians who fled their homes in Baghdad to a camp near Iraq’s Syrian border, which has no healthcare and is vulnerable to a harsh ... More >>
Peace Talks With Ugandan President
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:26 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator held talks today with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, stressing the importance of protecting civilians and meeting their humanitarian needs during the current peace process between the African country’s ... More >>
UN’S Top Communication Official Hails Adoption
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:26 pm | United Nations
The senior United Nations communications official has hailed the adoption of a wide-ranging draft resolution by the world body’s Committee on Information as a “road map for the year ahead.” More >>
Group Formed To Promote Financial Inclusion
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:25 pm | United Nations
A United Nations group that was formed to promote financial inclusion has released a series of key messages designed to remove the obstacles that prevent poor people from opening a bank account, taking a loan or buying insurance to protect their crops. More >>
Haiti: UN Police Providing Medical Services
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:23 pm | United Nations
Along with its security and law-enforcement role, the Senegalese specialized United Nations police unit in Haiti continues to help civilian doctors provide medical services in some of the poorest areas of the capital, Port-au-Prince, its commander highlighted ... More >>
Greece And FYROM Talks
Friday, 18 May 2007, 2:31 pm | United Nations
Representatives of Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) have held a fresh round of United Nations-mediated talks over the question of the official name of the latter country. More >>
C Afr Stability Needs Concrete Measures
Friday, 18 May 2007, 2:30 pm | United Nations
Welcoming steps to approve a Central African pact against the illegal trafficking of arms and a code of conduct for the countries’ armed forces, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today told a United Nations-sponsored security meeting that such concrete ... More >>
UN Urges Countries To Act On Counter-Terrorism
Friday, 18 May 2007, 1:52 pm | United Nations
New York, May 17 2007 6:00PM The main responsibility for carrying out the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy “falls squarely on Member States,” a senior UN official today told a symposium in Vienna convened to translate the landmark ... More >>
UN Envoy To Timor-Leste Praises Minister’s Trial
Friday, 18 May 2007, 12:36 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy in Timor-Leste today praised the handling of the ongoing case against a former interior minister who was convicted of arming civilians in the deadly violence that rocked the small South-East Asian country last year. More >>
UN Anti-Drug Offices Expands Facilities
Friday, 18 May 2007, 12:35 am | United Nations
In an effort to reinforce the ability of Afghanistan’s legal system to bring narcotics traffickers to justice, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today announced the completion of a new justice support centre in the city of Jalalabad. More >>
Iraq: UN Envoy Urges Constitutional Compromise
Friday, 18 May 2007, 12:34 am | United Nations
On the eve of Iraq’s deadline for completing its Constitutional Review, the top United Nations envoy to the troubled country today called for action to build consensus and foster compromise among all political blocs, pledging the world body’s full ... More >>
