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S-G Makes Public Financial Disclosure
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:15 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today released his financial disclosure statement for 2006 to the public, honouring a promise he made on taking office, after submitting it for review to an outside financial and auditing company. More >>
Cambodia: Progress in Khmer Rouge
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:15 am | United Nations
A judicial review committee in Cambodia, looking to resolve differences that have stalled the long-awaited trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders, accused of mass killings and other horrific crimes during the 1970s, has made progress over the last two weeks ... More >>
UN Assembly Condemns Holocaust Denial
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:14 am | United Nations
The United Nations General Assembly today condemned without reservation any denial of the Holocaust, with only Iran publicly disassociating itself from the consensus resolution which was immediately hailed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. More >>
Call for Sudan Peacekeeper Murder Probe
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:13 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned today’s killing of an Indian peacekeeper serving with the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and called for an investigation into the attack in the country’s south. More >>
UN Signs Joint Security Deal in Timor
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:12 am | United Nations
The United Nations mission in Timor-Leste today signed a security agreement with Timorese authorities and Australia’s Government to better improve coordination in the fight against continuing violence in the tiny nation, while UN Police are ... More >>
Guinea: UN Helps Wounded in Hospital
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:11 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will assist victims of recent violence in Guinea at the main public hospital in Conakry, the capital, in the wake of a general strike in which security forces are reported to have killed dozens of unarmed protestors ... More >>
S-G Mourns Death of Barbadian Diplomat
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:11 am | United Nations
Mourning the death of Oliver Jackman, United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon today paid tribute to the veteran diplomat and jurist who was appointed in 1999 as the Special Representative to the Secretary-General on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy. More >>
Iraq: Violence Against Palestinians
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:10 am | United Nations
For the third time this week the United Nations refugee agency voiced alarm today at the unrelenting violence against Palestinian refugees in Iraq, with 34 people reported killed in the past two months and scores more terrified men, women and children ... More >>
Indonesia Mother-And-Child Centre Opened
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:08 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has completed construction of the first of the 227 mother-and-child health centres it is building in Indonesia’s tsunami-devastated Aceh province and earthquake-hit Nias Island. More >>
UN Revives Efforts to Eliminate Yaws
Monday, 29 January 2007, 10:07 am | United Nations
The United Nations health agency is reviving efforts to eliminate yaws , a nearly forgotten disease that eats away at the skin, cartilage and bones of its victims, mostly children, which is making a comeback after a global control programme almost ... More >>
UNDP Recommends New Audit
Friday, 26 January 2007, 2:33 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), aiming to address concerns over the paying of hard currency and other practices in its operations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), today officially proposed to its Executive Board ... More >>
10 Global Finalists for Global Development
Friday, 26 January 2007, 2:29 pm | United Nations
Entrepreneurs promoting a range of businesses – from community-based tourism in Brazil to Vietnamese bringing medicinal plants to the international market – are among 10 finalists announced today by the head of the United Nations Environment ... More >>
Saharan Refugees Risk Going Hungry
Friday, 26 January 2007, 1:29 pm | United Nations
Efforts by the United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) to feed Western Saharan refugees in Algeria are being stymied by a 30 per cent shortfall in funds which are essential to guarantee the continuation of food distribution. More >>
Wake of Severe Floods in Peru
Friday, 26 January 2007, 1:17 pm | United Nations
Major floods which have killed at least 16 people and affected 46,000 others in northeastern Peru have prompted United Nations agencies to send in logistical and humanitarian support. More >>
Nepal: Rapidly Deteriorating Environment
Friday, 26 January 2007, 10:15 am | United Nations
Urgent and decisive measures are essential to curtail environmental degradation which is complicating the growth of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, a United Nations-backed report released today cautioned. More >>
World Must Help Lebanese Reconstruction
Friday, 26 January 2007, 10:05 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a major international donors’ conference on Lebanon today that the international community must support the war-shattered country’s efforts for economic and political reconstruction, with its neighbours ... More >>
UN Envoy on Children in Conflict
Friday, 26 January 2007, 9:26 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy on children and armed conflict will travel to Sudan on Friday for a week-long visit that will include trips to the strife-torn Darfur region where she will discuss greater protection for the youngest victims of the ... More >>
World Cannot Afford another 06 in Middle East
Friday, 26 January 2007, 12:20 am | United Nations
Warning the Security Council that the world cannot afford another year like 2006 in the Middle East and Lebanon, the top United Nations political officer today called for a “resumed political process” between Israel and the Palestinians, adding ... More >>
UN Food Agency Hails Oscar Nominations
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 2:57 pm | United Nations
The World Food Programme ( WFP ) today welcomed the Academy Award nominations for the actors Djimon Hounsou and Penelope Cruz, who have recorded public service announcements and undertaken other work to champion the cause of the United Nations humanitarian ... More >>
IRAQ: Palestinians Facing Attacks -
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 2:49 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today called on the international community to aid Palestinians living in Iraq after 90 panic-stricken men, women and children fled Baghdad, reportedly headed on two rented buses towards the Syrian border, following ... More >>
