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Slave-Like Practices Persist
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:17 am | United Nations
Two hundred years after the United States and the British Empire banned the slave trade, many millions of people are still subjected to slavery-like practices, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned. More >>
UN Repatriation Programme Resumes After Winter
Monday, 5 March 2007, 10:08 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has resumed the voluntary repatriation of Afghans in Pakistan after a winter break, the sixth year of the largest such operation in the agency’s history that has already seen over 2.87 million Afghans return from ... More >>
UN Launches Climate Initiative In San Francisco
Monday, 5 March 2007, 9:49 am | United Nations
As part of United Nations efforts to combat global warming, the world body launched a unique partnership today with the United States’ City of San Francisco, the Bay Area Council and a wide array of businesses in the region, aimed at providing a model ... More >>
Thousands More Timorese Become Displaced
Monday, 5 March 2007, 9:48 am | United Nations
More than 5,000 additional Timorese have fled to internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps over the past month or so because of the recent violence in the capital Dili, although this is now under control as more United Nations police are patrolling the ... More >>
Europe Pledges Hundreds Of Millions
Monday, 5 March 2007, 9:47 am | United Nations
The main United Nations agency caring for Palestinian refugees and the European Union have signed a joint declaration on European Community (EC) support, with the EU pledging to contribute some €264 million (euros) over the next four years to the agency’s ... More >>
UN Grants Sierra Leone $35 Million
Monday, 5 March 2007, 9:46 am | United Nations
Pushing ahead with efforts to prevent countries that the United Nations has helped emerge from war from slipping back into conflict, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today made $35 million available for Sierra Leone from the world body’s new Peacebuilding ... More >>
Younger Generation To Take Better Care of Planet
Monday, 5 March 2007, 9:46 am | United Nations
Ban Ki-Moon Calls On New Generation To Take Better Care Of Planet Earth Than His Own More >>
Learn The Serious Through Play
Monday, 5 March 2007, 9:44 am | United Nations
From raging wildfires, devastating floods and towering tsunamis to roaring hurricanes and cataclysmic earthquakes, children can now learn how to respond to and mitigate disasters through a new internet video game launched today by the United Nations, ... More >>
UN Agency Seeks to Erase Racial Stereotyping
Monday, 5 March 2007, 9:43 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency is seeking to solve a number of thorny issues in Europe, ranging from thousands of people who suddenly found themselves declared illegal in Slovenia to racial stereotyping by the Italian media. More >>
‘Plague’ Of Violence Against Women
Monday, 5 March 2007, 9:41 am | United Nations
Progress has been made already this year in protecting human rights worldwide, such as the recent adoption of a convention against enforced disappearances and other legislation, the top United Nations rights officer said today, but she stressed that ... More >>
Ban Ki-Moon Supports Meeting On Iraq
Monday, 5 March 2007, 9:40 am | United Nations
A spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced support for the new diplomatic initiative that will bring together Iraq’s neighbours and the five permanent members of the Security Council in a meeting in Baghdad. More >>
Helping Paraguay Control Dengue Outbreak
Friday, 2 March 2007, 1:51 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Pan American Health Organization ( PAHO ), a regional arm of the UN World Health Organization ( WHO ), is assisting Paraguay in its efforts to control an outbreak of dengue fever that has affected thousands. More >>
Sudan: De-Mining
Friday, 2 March 2007, 1:50 pm | United Nations
United Nations de-miners and their aid agency partners in south Sudan have destroyed thousands of mines and other unexploded ordnance over the past few months, including clearing the customs market in Juba, the UN mission to the country said today, reporting ... More >>
Sports, Not War, Envoy Tells Liberians
Friday, 2 March 2007, 10:48 am | United Nations
Encouraging Liberians to forever give up the battlefields of war for the playing fields of sport, a senior United Nations envoy arrived in the formerly strife-torn West African country today to launch an innovative Sports for Peace programme aimed ... More >>
Unregulated Sale of Controlled Drugs
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 3:18 pm | United Nations
Unregulated sales – in places such as street markets and the Internet – of both internationally controlled and counterfeit drugs endanger the lives of people worldwide, according to a United Nations-backed annual report of an independent drug control ... More >>
UN to Shift Some $9 Bn from Pension Fund
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 3:18 pm | United Nations
The United Nations will move some $9 billion from its Pension Fund to “passive management,” a senior budget official said today, adding that more than a dozen bids for external management have been received and are under review. More >>
Sudan: Ban Ki-Moon Calls for ‘Dialogue’
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 1:36 pm | United Nations
Painting his grimmest picture yet of the humanitarian and security situation in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated the urgent need for a ceasefire, calling for “dialogue and negotiation” from all sides, ... More >>
Low-Cost Internet to Close Divide
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 1:36 pm | United Nations
Bringing down the costs of Internet access could set off the same wave of connectivity that has made mobile phone usage commonplace in developing countries, said innovators and corporate leaders from some of the world’s leading technology firms meeting ... More >>
UN Seeks to Revamp Palestinian Refugee Camp
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 11:32 am | United Nations
The main United Nations agency caring for Palestinian refugees has appealed for $26 million to improve the living conditions of some 18,000 Palestinians living in Neirab camp near Aleppo, Syria, as part of a new project emphasizing community participation. More >>
Angelina Jolie Visits Darfur Refugees In Chad
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 11:30 am | United Nations
Actress and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie wrapped up a two-day trip to a refugee camp in eastern Chad housing refugees from Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region, praising humanitarian workers for ... More >>
