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New UN Programme Launched To Harmonize Development
Friday, 2 February 2007, 2:25 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) today announced the start of a pilot scheme called “One UN” that seeks to better coordinate development activities at the country level and avoid duplication. More >>
Chad: Relief Agency Deplores Kidnapping
Friday, 2 February 2007, 1:07 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) has condemned the weekend kidnapping of a driver of a WFP-contracted convoy in eastern Chad, the third such armed attack on an aid convoy in the area in the past two months. More >>
Violence Against Algerian Women Hidden
Friday, 2 February 2007, 11:39 am | United Nations
An independent United Nations human rights expert has called on Algeria to take concrete measures against the gender inequality underlying violence against women, which she called a largely hidden problem because of the North African country’s social taboos ... More >>
Displaced Somalias Find New Homes
Friday, 2 February 2007, 10:33 am | United Nations
Under an ambitious pilot programme in the northern Somalian port city of Bosaso, United Nations agencies, a non-governmental organization (NGO) and local communities have joined forces to relocate 120 internally displaced families who have fled intense ... More >>
Al Gore, IOC Among Earth Champions
Friday, 2 February 2007, 9:31 am | United Nations
Former United States Vice President Al Gore and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its President Jacques Rogge are among seven Champions of the Earth announced today by the United Nations ecological agency for their efforts to save the world’s ... More >>
IAEA Reports Nuke Material Trafficking
Friday, 2 February 2007, 9:10 am | United Nations
The United Nations atomic watchdog agency, whose tasks include pre-empting nuclear and radiological terrorism and preventing proliferation, today reported 149 confirmed incidents of illicit trafficking and other unauthorized activities involving nuclear ... More >>
Ban Ki-Moon Seeks Trial For Serbs
Friday, 2 February 2007, 9:07 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today visited the United Nations war crimes court for the Balkans wars in The Hague, Netherlands, and called for action by Security Council members to help bring the two principal Bosnian Serb fugitives, Radovan Karadžic ... More >>
Trial to Prevent Women Hiv Transmission
Friday, 2 February 2007, 9:05 am | United Nations
A trial of a new treatment to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission in women has been stopped prematurely because of a higher number of infections among those taking the microbicide cellulose sulfate compared with the placebo group, according to United Nations agencies ... More >>
Two Suspected Bird Flu Deaths in Nigeria
Friday, 2 February 2007, 9:02 am | United Nations
The United Nations health agency is helping the government of Nigeria monitor the situation following two suspected fatal bird flu cases in Africa’s most populous country, only the second possible incidence of the H5N1 virus in humans in the sub-Saharan ... More >>
ICC Working Group on Crime of Agression
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 2:11 pm | United Nations
The countries overseeing the structure and management of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ) are making “very good progress” towards agreement on a definition of the crime of aggression, the head of a key working group told a press conference ... More >>
Côte D’Ivoire: UN Helps Book Donations
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 2:10 pm | United Nations
Pressing ahead with efforts to rebuild war-damaged educational institutions in Côte d’Ivoire, the United Nations peacekeeping mission there today facilitated the donation of scores of books to a university library in the north. More >>
UN Seminar Next Week on Palestine Aid
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 10:00 am | United Nations
A United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People will be held in Qatar next week in an effort to ease the social, economic and humanitarian emergencies in the Occupied Palestinian Territory stemming from the Israeli occupation. More >>
Nepal: Appeal to Allow Passage of Food
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 9:47 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) in Nepal has appealed to all parties in the south-eastern Terai region of the impoverished country to allow safe passage for food convoys, warning that transport strikes and violence have severely disrupted ... More >>
UN Envoy in Iraq Visits Saudi Arabia
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 9:38 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy to Iraq visited Saudi Arabia today as part of his ongoing efforts to muster regional support to bring stability to the war-torn country. More >>
Rift Valley Fever Appears in Decline
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 9:36 am | United Nations
The months-long outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in Kenya appears to be in decline after more than 500 suspected cases, 169 of them fatal, there and in Somalia, the United Nations health agency reported today. In Somalia continued conflict is hampering ... More >>
Afghanistan: UN Steps Up Reconstruction
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 9:34 am | United Nations
A high-level United Nations-backed body promoting a five-year development plan for Afghanistan wound up a two-day meeting in Berlin today with a commitment to more aggressive and determined efforts to rebuild the war-torn country, ranging from improving ... More >>
Sudan, Somalia Focus of SG-Kenya Talks
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 9:33 am | United Nations
The situation in Sudan, the problems involving Somali refugees and the challenges facing Africa’s Great Lakes region topped the agenda today during talks between Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki in Nairobi. More >>
DR Congo: UN Reports Clashes And Abuses
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 9:32 am | United Nations
Certain army elements in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continue to harass and terrorize civilians in the east of the vast country while renegade forces who refuse to join in the demobilization and reintegration process have engaged in rape ... More >>
Peacebuilding Tools to Help States
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 12:54 am | United Nations
The top United Nations peacebuilding official today said that fresh initiatives, bolstered by millions of dollars in resources and drawing upon the capacities and experiences of numerous agencies of the world body, are poised to aid post-conflict ... More >>
Trial of Charles Taylor in June
Wednesday, 31 January 2007, 4:35 pm | United Nations
The lead prosecutor for the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone today said the trial of Charles Taylor, the notorious former Liberian President who has been indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, will commence in early ... More >>
