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25,000 Congolese Returned from Tanzania
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 11:07 am | United Nations
When she stepped off a ferry last Friday in the eastern port of Baraka in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Elizabeth Ibengo became the 25,000th refugee to be repatriated from Tanzania since the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) began a return ... More >>
Aid for Colombians Fleeing Into Ecuador
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 11:01 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency is distributing emergency items and food rations to more than 300 people who fled into Ecuador from Colombia in the latest spasm of over four decades of conflict between Government forces, leftist guerrillas, rightist ... More >>
Middle East Peace Process Must Continue
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 12:53 am | United Nations
In the face of “enormous” challenges – such as Israeli military operations and Palestinian suicide attacks targeting Israeli civilians – the Middle East peace process must persevere in order for Israelis and Palestinians to exist peacefully ... More >>
Chad: Supplementary Appeal for Displaced
Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 12:02 am | United Nations
Amid increasing insecurity and violence in eastern Chad, partly driven by killings in the neighbouring Sudanese region of Darfur, the United Nations refugee agency today launched a $6.2 million supplementary appeal to cope with up to 150,000 internally ... More >>
More Needed to Achieve Gender Equality
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 2:37 pm | United Nations
Much work remains to be done before goals of gender equality – and their resulting positive impact on primary-school enrolment, maternal mortality rates and women’s economic independence – are reached, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General ... More >>
Nepal Envoy Questions June Poll
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 2:24 pm | United Nations
Amid violence in the Terai region of southern Nepal, Maoist combatants leaving their cantonment sites and a continuing lack of agreement among the country’s political parties, the United Nations envoy to the Himalayan country today warned that June’s ... More >>
Condemning Recent Attacks On School And Mosque
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 1:31 pm | United Nations
Strongly condemning this weekend’s bombings of a university and a mosque which killed and injured hundreds of innocent civilians in Iraq, the top United Nations envoy to the country today called for those responsible for the criminal attacks ... More >>
Pirates Hijack UN Food Ship Off Somalia
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 11:23 am | United Nations
Pirates off the coast of Somalia have hijacked a United Nations-chartered ship with its 12-member crew shortly after it unloaded 1,800 metric tonnes of food aid and equipment - the fourth such attack on UN supply vessels off the East African country ... More >>
Child Mortality Declining In Ethiopia
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 11:21 am | United Nations
Child mortality in impoverished Ethiopia has fallen over the past 15 years and steady development progress is being made in other areas as well, the visiting head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said , while stressing that more work ... More >>
UN World Court Acquits Serbia Of Genocide
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 10:55 am | United Nations
The International Court of Justice ICJ , the main United Nations judicial organ, today overwhelmingly acquitted Serbia of committing genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Balkan war of the 1990s, but found it guilty of failing to prevent genocide ... More >>
Immediate Aid Needed In Myanmar’s Conflict Zones
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 10:07 am | United Nations
Expressing concern about the humanitarian and human rights implications of increased hostilities between Government forces and rebels in Myanmar’s southeastern Kayin State, a United Nations human rights expert has urged the country to grant aid groups ... More >>
UN's Envoy To Liberia Welcomes Female Police Unit
Monday, 26 February 2007, 10:19 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Liberia has welcomed the contribution of an all-female formed police unit serving with the world body's peacekeeping operation there, emphasizing the special contributions women can make to maintaining stability in the country. More >>
Ban Ki-Moon Welcomes Progress On Cluster Munitions
Monday, 26 February 2007, 10:10 am | United Nations
Reacting to a new declaration on cluster munitions, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed all progress to reduce the devastating humanitarian impact of these arms. More >>
Haiti: UN Pushes On With Anti-Gang Crackdown
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 1:54 pm | United Nations
United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti have arrested 59 suspected gangsters since they launched a crack-down on armed gangs at the beginning of the month in one of the violence-ridden country’s most dangerous areas, the Cité Soleil quarter of Port-au-Prince, ... More >>
Action To Keep Deadliest Weapons From Terrorists
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 1:52 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council will intensify its efforts to bring together concerned organizations working to keep weapons of mass destruction from falling into terrorist hands, the president of the 15-member body said today following a ... More >>
UN Agencies Convene Meeting To Study Circumcision
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 1:49 pm | United Nations
United Nations health agencies have convened an international meeting of AIDS experts for early March to examine the latest findings that male circumcision cuts the risk of HIV infection in men in heterosexual relations by up to 60 per cent. More >>
Team To Assess Construction Work In Jerusalem
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 1:47 pm | United Nations
Concerned by the impact of recent controversial construction work on access to the al-Haram al-Sharif, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) dispatched a team to investigate the project initiated by Israel ... More >>
UN Agencies Rush Aid To Flood Victims
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 1:45 pm | United Nations
The United Nations today stepped up aid to hundreds of thousands of flood victims on three continents, launching a $9.2 million flash appeal for 350,000 Bolivians, rushing in health care to 120,000 Mozambicans, and sending in food for some 6,000 ... More >>
UN Agency Repatriates Liberian Refugees
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 1:43 pm | United Nations
Despite rapidly increasing instability in Guinea due to a general strike and the resulting declaration of a state of emergency, the United Nations refugee agency is pressing forward in its efforts to assist those who have fled to the country and ... More >>
Timor-Leste: UN Investigates Deadly Violence
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 1:39 pm | United Nations
United Nations police today in Timor-Leste are investigating deadly violence that erupted at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) near the capital’s airport, in which one Timorese was killed and two injured. More >>
