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Ethiopia-Sudan Repatriation Programme
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:50 pm | United Nations
A 17-truck convoy carrying over 600 refugees, including a newborn baby, completed a three-day journey to southern Sudan, marking the end of the United Nations refugee agency’s repatriation programme from Ethiopian camps before the rainy season begins. More >>
UN Agency Staff Raises $125,000
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:48 pm | United Nations
Staff members of the main United Nations agency caring for Palestinian refugees have raised $125,000 to aid anguished families in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, where a six-day Israeli siege in November 2006 took the lives of 82 Palestinians ... More >>
Climate Change: Ki-Moon Urges Preventive Action
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:47 pm | United Nations
Amid growing global concern about climate change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged experts meeting in Geneva to address the need for warning systems to mitigate the damage from extreme weather. More >>
Housing Conditions In South Africa ‘Desperate’
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:46 pm | United Nations
South Africa has made great efforts to redress housing inequality but desperate living conditions persist, according to a United Nations human rights expert who today called on the country’s Government to boost social services and take other measures to ... More >>
2.6 Billion People Lacking Sanitation Services
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:43 pm | United Nations
The world is lagging seriously in its efforts to slash the number of people who lack access to decent sanitation, leaving too many people deprived of basic dignity, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling for concrete measures from United Nations Member ... More >>
Caribbean: Level Of Crime Threatens Growth
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:33 pm | United Nations
The highest murder and assault rates in the world are undermining economic growth in the Caribbean region, according to a report published today by the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC which blames the illicit drug ... More >>
Liberia: Workshop Series For Immigration Officers
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:31 pm | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Liberia today opened the first of a series of six workshops aimed at strengthening the skills of immigration officers posted throughout the country, as part of efforts to improve controls in a region renowned for having ... More >>
Launch Of New Iraq Plan
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:31 pm | United Nations
Launching a five-year peace and development plan for Iraq today, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the international community to assist the violence-plagued country to follow through on commitments for progress in security, unity, resource sharing ... More >>
Impasse In Ethiopia-Eritrea Peace Process
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:27 pm | United Nations
In a new report made public today, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his concern for the stalemate in the dialogue between Ethiopia and Eritrea, calling for a comprehensive implementation of the Algiers Agreements in 2000 which ended the bloody war between ... More >>
Call For Increased Use Of Vaccine Monitors
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:27 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Health Organization WHO and the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF today jointly called for greater funding and use of vaccine vial monitors, simple tools which warn if dosages have been damaged by heat, on the tenth anniversary of ... More >>
Kosovo’s Communities Remain Far Apart
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:26 pm | United Nations
Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian and Serbian communities continue to lead largely separate existences and have very different outlooks on the future, which means creating an integrated, multi-ethnic society in the province will require “substantial effort,” ... More >>
UN Hands Over Control Of Diamond Certification
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:25 pm | United Nations
Less than a week after the Security Council lifted its sanctions on the export of “blood diamonds” from Liberia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission to the West African country today handed over a regional diamond certification office to ... More >>
Use Of Diverse Media For Outreach
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 2:25 pm | United Nations
Representatives of United Nations Member States today urged the world body to keep using a wide array of media and languages to deliver its message of peace, development and rights to the peoples of the world, as the UN Committee on Information continued ... More >>
Concern About Azerbaijan Press Freedom
Monday, 7 May 2007, 5:06 pm | United Nations
An independent United Nations human rights expert has voiced concern about press freedom in Azerbaijan while reporting that his recent meetings there offered hope that court decisions which have caused a prevailing sense of fear among journalists ... More >>
Repatriation For Congolese Refugees
Monday, 7 May 2007, 9:35 am | United Nations
As some areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recover from devastating civil war, the United Nations refugee agency has started to assist the return of Congolese who fled to Zambia, with the first group of 400 starting the long trek ... More >>
€30 Million European Grant For Darfur
Sunday, 6 May 2007, 6:10 pm | United Nations
The United Nations food relief agency today welcomed a €30 million donation from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), to help feed over 2 million people in the violence-torn Darfur region of Sudan. More >>
New UN-Backed Urban Training Centre In China
Sunday, 6 May 2007, 5:47 pm | United Nations
As the damage from climate change grows increasingly apparent, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has praised a new centre in China working to address the environmental impact of large cities. More >>
Good Words On Iraq Must Translate Into Good Deeds
Sunday, 6 May 2007, 5:46 pm | United Nations
Expressions of regional and international support for Iraq must be translated into sustained and concrete actions or the violence-wracked country may never know any peace, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told foreign ministers taking part in the international ... More >>
Cooperation Among Developing Countries Key
Sunday, 6 May 2007, 5:45 pm | United Nations
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has emphasized the value of collaboration among developing countries while calling for greater efforts to manage the process. More >>
American Jewish Committee Has Key Role
Sunday, 6 May 2007, 5:45 pm | United Nations
In a video message to the 101st annual dinner of the American Jewish Committee in Washington, D.C., yesterday evening, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon restated his top priorities, among them geopolitical issues, “in particular the ... More >>
