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UNICEF And Chad Sign Agreement
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 9:37 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reached an agreement with the Government of Chad for the demobilization of child soldiers across the African country. More >>
Palestinian Claims Against Israeli Barrier
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 9:36 pm | United Nations
Ahead of Monday’s activation of the United Nations unit that will register claims for damage caused by Israel’s construction of a barrier in occupied Palestinian territory, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appointed three international compensation ... More >>
Advanced Knowledge Link To Sustainable Development
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 9:35 pm | United Nations
The interconnections between education, scientific research and technological innovation and their part in sustainable development will be explored in Trieste, Italy, starting today by policy-makers and experts from the educational, scientific and business ... More >>
Truce Aids Children In 700 Philippines Villages
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 9:34 pm | United Nations
Children and their families in 700 remote villages in conflict-ravaged southern Philippines have received essential health care, many for the first time in their lives, through a historic truce arranged with Muslim rebels, the United Nations Children’s Fund ... More >>
UN Teams With American Red Cross To
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 9:34 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today that it has partnered with the American Red Cross to help fishing communities in Indonesia’s Aceh Province that were heavily impacted by the 2004 tsunami. More >>
Urge For Release Of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 9:33 pm | United Nations
Over A Dozen UN Rights Experts Jointly Urge Release Of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi More >>
Workplace Discrimination Still Rampant
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 9:32 pm | United Nations
Although progress has been made at combating discrimination in the workplace, rising gender disparities in income and other forms of discrimination – including age, sexual orientation and HIV/AIDS status – are cause for growing concern, the United ... More >>
Drew Barrymore UN World Food Programme Advocate
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 9:17 pm | United Nations
The American actress Drew Barrymore was named today as an Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and charged with the task of using her celebrity as a film star to advocate for school feeding projects in some of the ... More >>
Sierra Leoneans To Dance To Reconciliation
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 9:16 pm | United Nations
The lilting messages of peace and civic engagement will be heard on sound systems across Sierra Leone, starting this week, with the release of a new CD produced by local musicians in collaboration with the United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra ... More >>
Weapons Memorial ‘A Symbol Of Suffering And Hope’
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 9:15 pm | United Nations
Marking the unveiling of a permanent memorial in The Hague to victims of chemical weapons, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today pledged to redouble the efforts of the world body to achieve universal membership of the Chemical Weapons Convention. More >>
French Judge Resigns From International Court
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 9:14 pm | United Nations
The head of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has paid tribute to Judge Claude Jorda of France, whose permanent ill-health has forced him to resign from the body set up under an international treaty to hear trials of individuals charged with acts ... More >>
Integration Of Refugees In Europe
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 2:38 pm | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has issued a series of recommendations to help integrate refugees in Europe with the aim of enabling them to become productive members of society whether they stay or return home. More >>
Jolie-Pitt Foundation Donates $1 Million To UN
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 2:32 pm | United Nations
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt have donated $1 million towards the humanitarian effort assisting millions of people affected by the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, the ... More >>
Mogadishu Situation Still Tense - UN
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 2:30 pm | United Nations
People displaced by the recent fighting in Somalia -- the worst in 16 years -- are gradually returning to parts of the capital, Mogadishu, but fear is preventing others from going back to areas where the military still has a strong presence, the United ... More >>
General Assembly President Urges Unity
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 2:14 pm | United Nations
Closing a major conference today at United Nations Headquarters in New York, General Assembly President Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa called on the peoples of the world to overcome their mutual indifference to each other to solve grave global problems. More >>
Group Urges Action To Demobilize Child Soldiers
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 2:12 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict has demanded that the parties in Sri Lanka and Nepal demobilize all child soldiers without delay, as it also examined new reports on children caught up in fighting ... More >>
Civil Society Forum Urges Action On Middle East
Sunday, 13 May 2007, 2:10 pm | United Nations
Sounding a strong collective call to action, a broad cross-section of civil society gathered in Pretoria for a United Nations-backed Public Forum in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace stressed the urgent need to press for the immediate resumption of the political ... More >>
Kosovo Remains Calm But Tense
Friday, 11 May 2007, 1:02 pm | United Nations
Although the overall security situation in Kosovo is calm, tension is palpable in the ethnic Albanian majority Serbian province that the United Nations has administered since 1999, according to a new report by on last month’s Security Council fact-finding ... More >>
UN Second-in-Command Finance Disclosure
Friday, 11 May 2007, 10:36 am | United Nations
Following the example of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, his deputy today released her financial disclosure statement for 2006-07 to the public after submitting it for review to an outside financial auditing company. More >>
Darfur Peace Process at a ‘Crossroads,’
Friday, 11 May 2007, 10:35 am | United Nations
The fragile peace process in Darfur is at a “crossroads,” the United Nations Special Envoy for the strife-torn region said today, as he and his counterpart from the African Union (AU) wrapped up their third joint visit to Sudan. More >>
