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Deadly Sewage Spill In Gaza Prompts UN Relief
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 8:14 pm | United Nations
United Nations humanitarian agencies have begun offering aid to the victims of yesterday’s sewage disaster in the Gaza Strip, where the wall of a cesspool collapsed and waste flooded the nearby village of Um Al Nasser, killing at least four people, injuring ... More >>
UN Reach Accord On Bird Flu Virus Samples
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 8:13 pm | United Nations
Indonesia will immediately resume supplying the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) with viruses from its bird flu outbreak, a vital tool in tracking possible mutations into a deadly human pandemic and producing vaccines, while the agency will ... More >>
Call For Release Of Prize-Winning Journalist
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 8:12 pm | United Nations
The United Nations independent expert on the situation of human rights in Myanmar appealed to the Government to release the distinguished poet and journalist U Win Tin who is the country’s longest serving political prisoner, having been jailed ... More >>
Male Circumcision Cutting HIV Infection
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 7:29 pm | United Nations
Male circumcision should be recognized as an additional important step in curbing heterosexually acquired HIV in men after trials showed that the procedure cut the risk of infection by up to 60 per cent, the United Nations health agency said today. More >>
Haitian Hospital To Have Year-Round Clean
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 7:28 pm | United Nations
A provincial hospital in Haiti near the country’s border with the Dominican Republic will now enjoy a continual supply of clean water thanks to the United Nations peacekeeping mission, just one of the 300 so-called Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) it has financed ... More >>
Concern At Food Shortfall In DPR Korea
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 7:28 pm | United Nations
Facing a huge shortfall in the $102 million it has already sought to feed up to 1.9 million especially vulnerable people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the United Nations World Food Programme WFP today appealed for an immediate ... More >>
UN Officials Urge Halt To Modern-Day Exploitation
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 7:27 pm | United Nations
On Bicentennial Of Slave Trade’s End, UN Officials Urge Halt To Modern-Day Exploitation More >>
Global Disaster Early-Warning System
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 7:26 pm | United Nations
Pushing ahead with plans to mitigate the impact of natural disasters, from earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes to floods and wildfires, scientists and advisors from 20 specialized United Nations bodies began a two-day meeting today to decide how a people-centred ... More >>
Bringing Persons With Disabilities Into Mainstream
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 7:26 pm | United Nations
A "dazzling array" of technologies is bringing persons with disabilities into the workforce and integrating them further into society, an expert on assistive technologies said today at a forum at United Nations Headquarters in New York. More >>
‘Modern Slavery’ Of Human Trafficking
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 7:25 pm | United Nations
The United Nations, Governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) today jointly launched The Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, choosing the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to fight a modern scourge that ... More >>
Urge to Support New Palestinian Government
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 7:24 pm | United Nations
The international community has an obligation to support the new Palestinian National Unity Government without preconditions and to lift the aid restrictions imposed on it, according to participants in a United Nations meeting on Israeli-Palestinian ... More >>
Israel, Palestinians Must Both Take Steps To Peace
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 6:59 pm | United Nations
It is crucial that both Israel and the Palestinians take steps to reduce tensions in the Middle East in order to advance the peace process, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Jerusalem today after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. More >>
Funding Shortfall Threatens Vital UN Food Aid
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 6:57 pm | United Nations
A critical shortage of funds will force the United Nations World Food Programme WFP to cut off vital food aid rations for 53,000 people in Djibouti beginning next month in a country where malnutrition rates among children under five are already well ... More >>
Envoy On Kosovo 'Independence Is The Only Option’
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 6:57 pm | United Nations
The only viable option for Kosovo is independence, with an initial period of supervision by the international community, the senior United Nations official overseeing the Serbian province’s future status process has concluded in a report endorsed by ... More >>
New Treaty To Protect Disabled
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 6:56 pm | United Nations
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour today called on Member States to protect and respect the rights of the disabled, who comprise 10 per cent of the world’s population, by implementing the landmark Convention on the Rights ... More >>
Liberia: Need For Better Policing Of Borders
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 6:55 pm | United Nations
Opening a new immigration office in a provincial capital in Liberia’s west, a senior United Nations envoy to the country today stressed that cross-border traffic in small arms, light weapons and rebels continues to threaten peace and stability in West ... More >>
Teaching Kosovo’s Children Tolerance
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 6:54 pm | United Nations
Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch are playing their part in bridging the ethnic and linguistic divide in Kosovo, teaching tolerance to children in the Albanian-majority Serb province in a United Nations-backed project that adapts the ... More >>
Impact Of Extreme Weather From Global Warning
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 6:54 pm | United Nations
Citing one of the worst cyclone seasons in recent memory in Madagascar as an example, the United Nations body that seeks to mitigate the impact of natural disasters called on the international community to invest more in programme to reduce the effects ... More >>
Worm Disease Could Be Eradicated Within Two Years
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 6:53 pm | United Nations
Guinea worm, an ancient parasitic disease causing tennis-ball-size ulcers so painful that victims feel as if they are on fire, could in less than two years become the second illness after smallpox to be pushed into oblivion, thanks to water treatment ... More >>
Ban Ki-Moon Arrives In Riyadh
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 6:52 pm | United Nations
Continuing a diplomatic tour of the Middle East to try to address the region’s hotspots, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, where tomorrow he will address the Summit of the League of Arab States. More >>
