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UN Delivers Aid to Over 2,000 Families
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 3:01 pm | United Nations
In Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna Peninsula, the United Nations refugee agency has supplied aid to more than 2,000 families hosting thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) who have escaped renewed fighting between the Government forces and ... More >>
World Must Help Displaced Iraqis
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 2:54 pm | United Nations
The support of the international community is vital in easing the suffering of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) as well as the increased pressure on countries like Syria and Jordan, which together host more ... More >>
Warring Sides Must Engage in Dialogue
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 1:53 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on the warring sides in Somalia to engage in dialogue to avoid the deaths of children and innocent civilians as happened last week when three youngsters were killed in Mogadishu, the capital. More >>
Colombia Continued Attacks on Displaced
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 1:45 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today called on all armed groups in Colombia to respect international humanitarian law and leave civilians out of the more than four-decades-long conflict which has uprooted some 3 million people in fighting between the Government, ... More >>
Food Crisis Looms
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 11:44 am | United Nations
Two million people hit by recent floods in Burundi need $12 million in urgent aid to tide them over until the end of the so-called ‘lean season’ in June and avert a food crisis, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. More >>
Yemen: People-Smuggling From Somalia Increases
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 9:44 am | United Nations
The deadly smuggling of people across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen is picking up steam, with 15 people including a pregnant woman reported to have drowned while disembarking in deep water, and up to 9,000 others, according to some estimates, ... More >>
Timor-Leste Security Situation Remains Volatile
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 9:41 am | United Nations
While the overall situation in Timor-Leste has improved over the past six months, the security situation remains volatile and the political climate is constantly changing, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, recommending that the United Nations mission ... More >>
Indonesia Illegal Logging Orang Threat
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 9:12 am | United Nations
The orangutan, one of the world’s few great apes, is making its last stand in the jungles of Indonesia as illegal logging accelerates at a far faster rate than previously thought, and emergency action is needed now to ensure their survival, including international ... More >>
Ban Ki-Moon Mourns Death
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 12:53 am | United Nations
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon today voiced sadness at the death of Angela E.V. King, the Jamaican who served as the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, and paid tribute to her legacy in fervently championing ... More >>
UN & African Union Envoys to Darfur
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 12:15 am | United Nations
The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Darfur and his African Union (AU) counterpart will conduct a joint mission to Sudan next week as part of their efforts to revive the stalled peace process in the war-torn region. More >>
UN Body Lifts Ban on Finest Caviar
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 12:04 am | United Nations
The United Nations-backed body overseeing a global treaty governing trade in endangered species has lifted a year-long ban on beluga caviar, the world’s most expensive, after Caspian Sea countries agreed to reduce the catch quota by 29 per cent compared ... More >>
UN Reform Plans Need Support – Arab League
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 3:38 pm | United Nations
UN Reform Plans Need Support – Arab League Official More >>
Iraq Faces Dire And Long-Term Humanitarian Crisis
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 2:20 pm | United Nations
Citing grim daily indicators – 100 people killed, hundreds wounded and thousands displaced – an official with the United Nations refugee agency predicted that Iraq’s humanitarian crisis will last for years, with ramifications extending beyond the ... More >>
‘Medical’ Female Genital Mutilation Disturbing
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 1:48 pm | United Nations
Calling for stepped-up efforts against the traditional yet gruesome practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) sounded the alarm today against a new trend – parents using health-care workers to perform ... More >>
UN: Indonesian Flood Aid Ready
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 11:10 am | United Nations
United Nations humanitarian agencies say they are standing by to help Indonesian authorities respond to the deadly flooding that has paralyzed the capital Jakarta and surrounding areas in recent days, forcing almost 150,000 people to flee their ... More >>
UN Steps Up Police Presence in Congo
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 11:08 am | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has deployed an additional police unit in the troubled province of Bas-Congo, where more than 70 people were reportedly killed last week amid violent clashes following ... More >>
Nigeria: Human Bird Flu Death Confirmed
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 11:07 am | United Nations
The United Nations health agency has confirmed a fatal human case of bird flu in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, only the second incidence of the H5N1 virus in humans in the sub-Saharan region, and is working with the Nigerian authorities ... More >>
Ban Ki-Moon Calls For Middle East Peace
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 10:34 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Israel to lift all restrictions on moving goods and people in the occupied Palestinian territory and on Palestinians to take firm measures to cease rocket fire and other indiscriminate attacks against ... More >>
UN Concerned For Fish Stock Collapse
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 10:32 am | United Nations
Rising demand for seafood and other marine produce will lead to a collapse of today’s commercial fish stocks by 2050 unless better management is introduced, exemplifying the challenges facing Governments in a globalized world, according to a new United ... More >>
Gaza: UN Calls For End To Violence
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 10:29 am | United Nations
United Nations humanitarian agencies in the occupied Palestinian territory have called for an immediate end to the violence in Gaza, which is seriously hampering their ability to deliver aid. More >>
