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Mission in Afghanistan Expands Presence
Tuesday, 20 February 2007, 4:13 pm | United Nations
Responding to Afghanistan's need for greater stability, the United Nations Assistance Mission in the country (UNAMA) has established new offices in the provinces, its chief said today. More >>
One Third Of All Iraqis Live In Poverty
Monday, 19 February 2007, 2:30 pm | United Nations
From a thriving middle income economy in the 1970's and 1980's, one third of today's Iraqi population lives in poverty with more than 5 per cent living in extreme poverty, a new United Nations-backed study says. More >>
UN Recommends Policy Measures For Job Creation
Saturday, 17 February 2007, 6:20 pm | United Nations
New York, Feb 16 2007 7:00PM Policy measures to generate productive jobs in a world where lack of employment poses a serious risk to millions have been put forward by the United Nations Commission for Social Development, which concluded its annual ... More >>
Anniversary Of Fund To End Violence Against Women
Saturday, 17 February 2007, 6:18 pm | United Nations
Senior United Nations officials today marked the tenth anniversary of the creation of the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women with praise for its accomplishments and a call for more action. More >>
UN Envoy Lauds Debt Relief Deals Reached
Saturday, 17 February 2007, 6:16 pm | United Nations
New York, Feb 16 2007 6:00PM The United Nations envoy to Liberia today said “real progress” had been made this week in dealing with the impoverished country’s almost $4 billion debt, but acknowledged that major challenges remain in rebuilding, ... More >>
UN Agency Signs Deal With Irish Red Cross
Saturday, 17 February 2007, 6:13 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has signed its first agreement with the Irish Red Cross on coordination between the two agencies to better help with reunification of refugee families in Ireland. More >>
UN Acting To Implement Counter-Terrorism Strategy
Saturday, 17 February 2007, 6:12 pm | United Nations
New York, Feb 16 2007 7:00PM The United Nations system has moved swiftly and vigorously to implement the landmark Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy adopted last year by the General Assembly, from improving the international response to a potential attack ... More >>
Former Child Soldier Launches Memoirs
Saturday, 17 February 2007, 6:09 pm | United Nations
The first-hand account of a Sierra Leonean child soldier’s odyssey from three years of vicious fighting, via a United Nations-supported rehabilitation centre, to a prestigious United States university has joined the arsenal of weapons the UN Children’s Fund ... More >>
Displaced People Leaving Somalia’s Capital
Saturday, 17 February 2007, 6:07 pm | United Nations
A steady flow of displaced persons is leaving the Somali capital, Mogadishu, to escape insecurity and violence there, the United Nations reported today. More >>
Death Toll In Migrant Tragedy Reaches 107
Saturday, 17 February 2007, 6:05 pm | United Nations
At least 107 bodies have so far been found along a remote stretch of the Yemen coastline after a boat smuggling migrants from Somalia capsized on Monday in one of the deadliest single incidents in a perilous exodus that has brought more than 27,000 people across ... More >>
Burundi: UN Seeking To Prevent Disease From Floods
Saturday, 17 February 2007, 6:03 pm | United Nations
The United Nation’s Children’s Fund is struggling to prevent outbreaks of deadly diseases like diarrhoea and cholera in Burundi, where hunger and flooding have already killed some youngsters, made more homeless and are keeping others out of school. More >>
‘Encouraging Progress’ In Bird Flu Vaccine
Saturday, 17 February 2007, 6:00 pm | United Nations
The United Nations health agency today reported “encouraging progress” in producing a vaccine against human bird flu, which in a worst case scenario could cause a deadly pandemic that could kill millions, but warned that the world still lacks the manufacturing ... More >>
Ban Ki-Moon Details Plans For UN Peacekeeping
Saturday, 17 February 2007, 5:57 pm | United Nations
Faced with an “explosive growth” in demand for United Nations peacekeepers around the world coupled with a “dramatically strained and overstretched system,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is proposing to split the current peacekeeping office into two to provide ... More >>
DR Congo Mission Extended
Friday, 16 February 2007, 3:09 pm | United Nations
Highlighting that the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to pose “a threat to international peace and security in the region,” the Security Council today extended the UN mission in the impoverished African country for another two ... More >>
Youth Must Not Continue to Be Neglected
Friday, 16 February 2007, 3:07 pm | United Nations
New development programmes are necessary to minimize the growing youth crisis, often ignored by policymakers, in the world’s poorest countries, experts said at a meeting of the United Nations International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) held ... More >>
Haiti Mission Extended
Friday, 16 February 2007, 3:06 pm | United Nations
Extending the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) by another eight months, the Security Council today endorsed its recently stepped-up campaign against armed criminal gangs and called for the operations to continue. More >>
Darfur: Violence Will Not Stop Conflict
Friday, 16 February 2007, 3:04 pm | United Nations
There is general agreement that violence will never resolve the conflict raging in Darfur, envoys from the United Nations and African Union told reporters in Khartoum today following talks in the vast western region of Sudan . More >>
UN Envoy In Iraq Visits Turkey
Friday, 16 February 2007, 11:29 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy to Iraq visited Turkey today as part of his ongoing efforts to muster regional support to bring stability to the war-torn country, the third such visit he has made in as many weeks. More >>
Former Gang Chief’s HQ Turned Into Health Clinic
Friday, 16 February 2007, 11:26 am | United Nations
Just days after launching a large-scale security operation to clean up one of Haiti’s most notorious hotbeds of criminal gangs, the United Nations peacekeeping mission has transformed the former crime boss’s headquarters into a free medical clinic, ... More >>
Ban Ki-Moon To Visit To Austria Next Week
Friday, 16 February 2007, 11:23 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will pay a three-day official visit to Vienna next week at an invitation of the Austrian Government, during which he will meet with President Heinz Fischer and Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. More >>
