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Parallel Progress Needed In Middle East
Monday, 26 March 2007, 2:45 pm | United Nations
With a majority of both Israelis and Palestinians supporting a negotiated settlement to the Middle East conflict that would allow two States to live side by side in peace and security, it is vital that their leaders take concrete steps to achieve that ... More >>
28 Killed in Exodus From Somalia To Yemen
Monday, 26 March 2007, 1:59 pm | United Nations
At least 28 people died from asphyxiation, beating or drowning and many were badly injured by smugglers in a renewed surge of people smuggling from Somalia to Yemen which saw more than 1,100 brave the perilous exodus across the Gulf of Aden in the ... More >>
Repatriation Of Over 400,000 In Angola
Monday, 26 March 2007, 1:58 pm | United Nations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR will embark on a four-day trip this weekend to Angola where he will attend a ceremony commemorating the fact that over 400,000 refugees who have returned home to the southern African nation ... More >>
Maritime Dispute Between Nicaragua And Honduras
Monday, 26 March 2007, 1:57 pm | United Nations
The United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) has begun its deliberations in the dispute between Nicaragua and Honduras over the delineation of their maritime border in the Caribbean Sea after public hearings in the case ended today. More >>
Liberia Still Faces Security Obstacles
Monday, 26 March 2007, 1:56 pm | United Nations
The United Nations top envoy to Liberia today told the Security Council that although the impoverished West African country, which is rebuilding after a brutal 14-year civil war, has made progress in consolidating stability, numerous threats to peace ... More >>
Juvenile Justice System Set Up In Kosovo
Monday, 26 March 2007, 1:56 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF has teamed up with the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) to support the development of the juvenile justice system in UN-administered Kosovo, focusing on rehabilitation rather than prison. More >>
New Members Increase Support For Food Programmes
Monday, 26 March 2007, 1:55 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme WFP has hailed the increasing support and commitment of 12 new European Union (EU) Member States to achieving the number 1 Millennium Development Goal MDG of halving poverty and hunger by 2015. More >>
Timor-Leste: Urge To Campaign Fairly
Monday, 26 March 2007, 1:54 pm | United Nations
Welcoming the end of voter registration and the official start of the campaigning period for next month’s presidential election in Timor-Leste, the chief United Nations envoy to the small country today reminded all eight candidates to play their ... More >>
Assassination Attempt On Iraq's Deputy PM
Monday, 26 March 2007, 1:54 pm | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Iraq today strongly condemned the recent assassination attempt against Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam Z. Al-Zubai, joining Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who met with the leader in Baghdad just one day before the attack, in ... More >>
Meningitis Outbreak Sparks Warning From UN
Saturday, 24 March 2007, 1:56 pm | United Nations
New York, Mar 23 2007 5:00PM United Nations humanitarian agencies are stepping up their efforts to combat a deadly outbreak of meningitis across West Africa, warning that the highly contagious disease could spread even more rapidly in coming months ... More >>
Urge Palestinian Unity Government To Commit
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 6:37 pm | United Nations
Stressing the need for the new Palestinian National Unity Government to commit to non-violence, the recognition of Israel and the acceptance of previous agreements and obligations, the Middle East Quartet – the diplomatic grouping that includes ... More >>
UN Officials On Missions To Address Humanitarian
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 6:36 pm | United Nations
Two senior United Nations officials are beginning separate missions to address the humanitarian and political aspects of the crisis in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, where efforts to deploy a hybrid UN-African Union (AU) peacekeeping force ... More >>
Movement To Halt Spread Of Tuberculosis
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 6:35 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today joined the “Call to Stop Tuberculosis,” a global partnership to stamp out the curable disease which kills almost 2 million people every year. More >>
Nearly 14,000 Flee Burned-Out Town
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 6:34 pm | United Nations
Nearly the 14,000 inhabitants have fled the burned-out wreck of the main town in north-eastern Central African Republic (CAR) since this month’s resumption of fighting between Government and rebel forces, United Nations officials reported today. More >>
Racial Discrimination Undermines Development
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 6:33 pm | United Nations
Although the world has made significant strides in the battle against racial discrimination in recent decades, recent reports point to “a disturbing rise” in incidents of a practice that constitutes a formidable obstacle to national development, United ... More >>
Numbers Of Displaced Timorese Continue To Swell
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 6:33 pm | United Nations
Although recent violence in Timor-Leste appears to be abating, the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the capital, Dili, continues to rise, prompting the United Nations mission to the South-East Asian country to warn today of possible food shortages. More >>
UN Experts Voice Concern At Events In Pakistan
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 6:32 pm | United Nations
Expressing concern about recent events in Pakistan where the President suspended the Chief Justice in a move widely seen as an attack on the independence of the judiciary, sparking demonstrations at which police used excessive force – two independent ... More >>
Haiti: UN Expands Humanitarian Activities
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 6:31 pm | United Nations
From security and justice to water and electricity to health and education, United Nations agencies are teaming up with the Haitian authorities to bring sorely needed services to the Cité Soleil neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince, the capital, one of ... More >>
Calls For End To Deadly Attacks On Schoolchildren
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 4:24 pm | United Nations
United Nations agencies today called for an end to violence against children in southern Thailand, where five children were killed recently and 12 others injured in escalating unrest in provinces bordering Malaysia. More >>
Dominican Accord On Eradicating Child Malnutrition
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 4:20 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme WFP has welcomed an agreement by finance officials from Central America and the Dominican Republic giving “top priority” to eradicating child malnutrition in their poverty reduction strategies, calling ... More >>
