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Diplomats To Lead Security Council Reform Talks
Saturday, 10 February 2007, 11:26 am | United Nations
As part of United Nations efforts to reform the 15-member Security Council, General Assembly President Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa today appointed five ambassadors, representing different regions, to move the process forward. More >>
Support Needed For States Hosting Displaced Iraqis
Saturday, 10 February 2007, 11:24 am | United Nations
The chief of the United Nations refugee agency called for increased international support for States such as Jordan and Syria which have made a “huge sacrifice” by hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war-torn Iraq. More >>
Serbian Children Live In Or At Risk Of Poverty
Saturday, 10 February 2007, 12:29 am | United Nations
There are still over 300,000 children in Serbia who are living in poverty or are at risk of poverty despite important steps that have been taken to improve the situation since the late 1990s, according to a new United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ... More >>
UNESCO Offers Help To Restore Heritage Site
Saturday, 10 February 2007, 12:26 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today offered Chile assistance in repairing damage caused by the fire that destroyed part of the historical centre of the port city of Valparaiso last week, ... More >>
Faith-Based Organizations In Fight Against Aids
Saturday, 10 February 2007, 12:23 am | United Nations
Faith-based organizations play a major role in HIV/AIDS care and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa and greater collaboration between them and public health agencies is needed if progress is to be made towards the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, ... More >>
UN Appeals For Urgent Aid For Flood Victims
Saturday, 10 February 2007, 12:20 am | United Nations
Floods across southern Africa are wreaking havoc for hundreds of thousands of people caught by rising waters that have washed away crops, homes and claimed the lives of dozens of people, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) reported today, ... More >>
UN Hopes For Progress On Middle East
Saturday, 10 February 2007, 12:17 am | United Nations
Calling the agreement between Fatah and Hamas on a Palestinian national unity government a “very important step forward,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he looks forward to discussing the way ahead in resolving the Middle East ... More >>
400 People Adrift Off West Africa
Saturday, 10 February 2007, 12:14 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency is seriously concerned about the situation of some 400 people of various nationalities on a ship drifting off the West African coast, who have not been allowed to disembark for several days. More >>
UN Envoy for Children in Conflict
Friday, 9 February 2007, 3:53 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations official dealing with children and armed conflict today hailed agreements reached earlier this week in France, known as the Paris Principles, aimed at ending the unlawful recruitment and use of children in warfare, but she also highlighted ... More >>
Refugee Camps in Pakistan to be Closed
Friday, 9 February 2007, 1:52 pm | United Nations
Citing security and development concerns, the United Nations refugee agency, Pakistan and Afghanistan have made plans to close four camps, accommodating more than 230,000 Afghan refugees, by the end of this summer, while providing residents with repatriation ... More >>
Gaza: UN Resumes Full Aid Operations
Friday, 9 February 2007, 11:37 am | United Nations
The United Nations agency that tends to Palestinian refugees has resumed full operation of its humanitarian activities in Gaza after they had been interrupted by recent inter-factional fighting. More >>
Indonesia: Fears Of Water-Borne Diseases Persist
Friday, 9 February 2007, 11:18 am | United Nations
Although the floodwaters have begun to recede in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, where 25 people are confirmed dead and nearly 300,000 others were driven from their homes, according to latest Government figures, clean water remains cut off in many ... More >>
UN Rights Chief Files To Prevent Death Sentence
Friday, 9 February 2007, 11:12 am | United Nations
The top United Nations human rights official today filed a legal brief with the Iraqi High Tribunal asserting that international law prohibits the imposition of capital punishment on former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan on grounds of breach of due ... More >>
Statement on Future Status
Friday, 9 February 2007, 10:29 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy for the future status of Kosovo said today that any suggestion implying that the provisional plan he presented last week meant independence for the Albanian-majority Serbian province, which the UN has run since 1999, came from ... More >>
Bird Flu Can Infect Cats
Friday, 9 February 2007, 10:29 am | United Nations
Bird Flu Can Infect Cats More >>
Concern At Israeli Construction Work In Jerusalem
Friday, 9 February 2007, 10:23 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voiced his “deep concern” today over construction work initiated by Israel in the Old City of Jerusalem and called for the suspension of any action that ... More >>
Campaign Seeks to De-Worm 4.5 Million
Friday, 9 February 2007, 9:30 am | United Nations
Some 4.5 million children across Ghana will be de-wormed next week in a United Nations-backed campaign seeking to rid them of the parasites that cause a host of serious health problems, including anaemia, malnutrition and stunted growth, and often prevent them ... More >>
Dr Congo: UN Mission Steps Up Probe
Friday, 9 February 2007, 12:22 am | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is stepping up its investigation of the situation in the country’s far west, where violent clashes last week led to the deaths of more than 130 people. More >>
Sustainable Development In Arab States
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 4:12 pm | United Nations
A new United Nations-backed programme, bolstered by the public and private sector, was launched today to allow Arab States to achieve sustainable development in the face of both opportunities and risks posed by globalization. More >>
Liberia: UN Hands Over Vocational Centre
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 4:09 pm | United Nations
In its latest moves to help the Liberian Government fulfil its pledge of free and compulsory primary education as well as providing young adults with work skills, the United Nations mission has handed over a three-classroom complex built by its ... More >>
