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Somalia: UN Envoy Talks To African Union

Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:56 am | United Nations

The top United Nations envoy for Somalia went to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, today for a meeting of the African Union (AU) that is expected to discuss plans for the speedy deployment of a protection force and training mission to back the transitional Government ... More >>

Nepal: Role Of Human Rights In Peace Process

Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:55 am | United Nations

Starting an official visit to Nepal today, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said she would press for rights protections, an end to impunity, and attention to long-standing discrimination during her meetings with leaders of the ... More >>

Bird Flu Mutation In Egypt Not Worse For Humans

Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:54 am | United Nations

Despite two cases of genetic mutation in bird flu in Egypt that moderately reduced the effectiveness of oseltamivir, the most strongly recommended drug, the United Nations health agency is not changing its recommendation because the level of resistance ... More >>

UNDP Seeks Full Audit Of Its Dpr Korea Work

Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:53 am | United Nations

UNDP Seeks Full Audit Of Its Dpr Korea Work; Ban Ki-Moon Orders System Wide Inquiry More >>

Burundi: Former President Acquittal Will Ease

Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:52 am | United Nations

Welcoming this week's decision by the Supreme Court of Burundi to acquit and release the former president of the republic and four other senior officials accused of plotting a coup, the United Nations office in the country said the move would help in "easing ... More >>

Crises Threaten Millions In Horn Of Africa

Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:50 am | United Nations

Rapid Series Of Natural, Man-Made Crises Threaten Millions In Horn Of Africa, Warns UN More >>

UN Refugee Agency Opens More Offices In Colombia

Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:29 am | United Nations

The United Nations refugee agency is opening two more field offices in Colombia, the country with the largest population of concern to the agency, to help cope with the crisis facing some 3 million people driven from their homes by more than 40 years ... More >>

Partnership Launched To Speed Up Medical Aid

Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:29 am | United Nations

Numerous victims of natural or man-made emergencies around the world will have access to life-saving medical supplies within 48 hours, even when several major crises strike simultaneously, under a new United Nations initiative announced today. More >>

Sri Lanka: 1000s Fleeing Govt-Rebel Fighting

Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:28 am | United Nations

Several thousand more people began fleeing an embattled separatist rebel-held pocket of land on Sri Lanka's east coast today towards Government positions as Government forces were reported to be advancing amid intensified fighting, the United Nations ... More >>

Cambodia: Food Aid Cut-Off Looms for 700,000

Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:26 am | United Nations

Food Aid Cut-Off Looms for 700,000 HUNGRY CAMBODIANS DUE TO FUNDING SHORTFALL - UN More >>

Lebanon Donor Conference

Friday, 19 January 2007, 4:21 pm | United Nations

5:00PM The reconstruction of Lebanon, the conflict in Darfur and the situation in Somalia will be on the agenda when Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon heads to Europe and Africa next week for his first overseas visit since taking the reins at the United ... More >>

Rejuvenating Economic and Social Council

Friday, 19 January 2007, 1:40 pm | United Nations

The newly-elected President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) today proposed ways to revitalize that body by involving a wider variety of people in its work, from government ministers to activists to academics to business executives, ... More >>

Somalia: Envoy Urges Govt to Expand Rule

Friday, 19 January 2007, 9:12 am | United Nations

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UN-Sudan Task Force on Sexual Exploitatn

Friday, 19 January 2007, 12:58 am | United Nations

As part of the United Nations zero tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation, the world body’s mission in Sudan today agreed with the Government and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to set up a joint task force to foster coordination, information-sharing ... More >>

Significant Progress in Nepal Monitoring

Friday, 19 January 2007, 12:49 am | United Nations

United Nations monitors have made “significant progress” in overseeing Nepal’s landmark peace deal, which was concluded between the Government and Maoist fighters last year, the top UN envoy to the Himalayan country said today, highlighting in ... More >>

Campaign to Plant Billion Trees in 07

Friday, 19 January 2007, 12:46 am | United Nations

In an effort to help mitigate global warming, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) today made a new appeal to the international community to plant a billion trees around the world this year as part of a project to save the planet. More >>

Iraq Uni Bombing: Right to Education

Friday, 19 January 2007, 12:45 am | United Nations

The United Nations agency entrusted with protecting the right to education today called on the Iraqi Government to do all in its power to stop the campaign of violence being waged against academics and intellectuals as typified by Tuesday's bombing ... More >>