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Bahrain PM Citation for Helping Poor
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 10:33 am | United Nations
Bahrain’s Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa today won a United Nations award for his efforts in improving the lot of the urban poor. More >>
Urgent Action Needed to End Trafficking
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 10:32 am | United Nations
United Nations officials today called for increased efforts – by Governments, civil society, law enforcement agencies, the private sector and international organizations including the UN – to curb human trafficking, especially in women and girls. More >>
DR Congo: Envoy on Children
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 9:52 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy on children and armed conflict is currently on a six-day ENDS More >>
Afghanistan: Call for Calm After Clash
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 9:28 am | United Nations
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today called for calm after yesterday’s suicide bombing and shooting on a highway in the east of the country in which civilians are reported to have been killed and injured after a United ... More >>
UNESCO HIV/AIDS Education Kit in Nepal
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 12:50 am | United Nations
With almost 100,000 people in impoverished Nepal living with the HIV virus that causes AIDS, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) today launched an awareness and prevention kit aimed at halting the spread of the ... More >>
Girls Speak Out At UN-Backed Forum
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:46 am | United Nations
Girls from around the world -- including a former child soldier from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an HIV-positive rape victim from Zambia, and a child-labourer from Nepal -- have come together to share the experiences that made them activists ... More >>
Senior UN Official Tours South Lebanon
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:43 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations official toured south Lebanon today to see first-hand the progress of the world body’s recovery and reconstruction work, which began after the end of last summer’s war between Israel and Hizbollah. More >>
Eritrea Imposes More Restrictions On UN
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:42 am | United Nations
Eritrea recently imposed more restrictions on the United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the ceasefire that ended its border war with Ethiopia in 2000, further reducing the world body’s effectiveness in the area, a UN spokesperson said today. More >>
Iran, Darfur to Dominate Security Council In March
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:41 am | United Nations
The Security Council expects to adopt a resolution on Iran’s nuclear programme early next week, while the continuing conflict in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, the role of women across the world, and possible visits to Nepal, Lebanon and other ... More >>
Exodus From Somalia’s Capital Escalates
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:40 am | United Nations
The flight of civilians from Somalia’s strife-torn capital, Mogadishu, has escalated over the past week, bringing the total number of those displaced from the city to nearly 20,000, sparking mounting concerns for their health and sanitation, the United ... More >>
New Mandela Portrait At UN
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:40 am | United Nations
Evoking her own recollections of when Nelson Mandela, or Prisoner 46664, walked out of prison after 27 years, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro paid tribute to the founding president of post-apartheid South Africa at the unveiling ... More >>
Haiti: Anti-Gang Crackdown In Capital
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:39 am | United Nations
United Nations peacekeepers and Haitian police have completed the first phase of a crackdown on armed gangs in one of the violence-ridden country’s most dangerous areas, the Cité Soleil neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, the capital, arresting dozens ... More >>
UN Forum Calls On Asian Governments
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:38 am | United Nations
Ibrahim Gambari of Nigeria, the former head of the United Nations Department for Political Affairs, was today named Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Advisor on the International Compact with Iraq and Other Political Issues . More >>
UN Forum Calls On Asian Governments
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:37 am | United Nations
East and South-East Asian governments must do more to "reach the unreached" by providing improved schools and hospitals, as well as protecting the environment, participants at a United Nations regional forum said today at the close of a two-day ... More >>
Serbia, Ethnic Albanians Remain Opposed
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:36 am | United Nations
Serbia and the ethnic Albanian government of Kosovo remain “diametrically opposed” following week-long talks on United Nations proposals for the future status of the Serbian province which the world body has run since Western forces drove out Yugoslav ... More >>
UN Forum Calls On Asian Governments
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:36 am | United Nations
East and South-East Asian governments must do more to "reach the unreached" by providing improved schools and hospitals, as well as protecting the environment, participants at a United Nations regional forum said today at the close of a two-day ... More >>
Need For ‘Guaranteed’ Judicial Independence
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:34 am | United Nations
A United Nations legal expert has called for a completely independent judiciary in the Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives, stressing also that an appropriate police bill is “key” in preventing abuses, while calling as well for improved drug prevention ... More >>
Madagascar: Floods, Drought Threaten Lives
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:33 am | United Nations
Flooding from cyclones in Madagascar has displaced 32,000 people and affected over 150,000 farming families, while a drought in the south of the Indian Ocean island has hit nearly 600,000 people, endangering the lives of 7,000 children with acute ... More >>
Tajikistan Must Balance Freedom
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:19 am | United Nations
Largely Muslim Tajikistan should take a balanced approach to religion, ensuring that legislation and policies respect the right to freedom of belief while also protecting the population, especially vulnerable individuals, from harassment by non-State entities ... More >>
Governments Should Include Refugees Treatment
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:18 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies are calling on governments everywhere to include refugees in their national HIV/AIDS policies and programmes and give them the same access to treatment as their own citizens. More >>
