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Iraq University Blast: Call For Responsibility
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 11:19 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy to Iraq today called on the authorities to apprehend those responsible for Tuesday's "heinous" bombing at Baghdad's Mustansiriya University, which killed and injured dozens of people, many of them students and ... More >>
Ban Ki-Moon And US President Stress Partnership
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 11:17 am | United Nations
New York, Jan 16 2007 6:00PM In his first meeting with United States President George W. Bush since assuming office as Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon said the two leaders mutually pledged to work together to try to achieve the goals of peace and increased ... More >>
Darfur: Worsening Security Threatens Aid
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 11:15 am | United Nations
New York, Jan 17 2007 1:00PM Mounting violence in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, repeated military attacks, arbitrary bombing of villages and the targeting of aid workers threaten to permanently disrupt the fragile lifeline ensuring the survival ... More >>
Off-Seasons Adopted To Protect Fish Stocks
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 11:12 am | United Nations
In an effort to stop the depletion of fish stocks in the Mediterranean Sea, where catches of blue-fin tuna plunged by almost half from 1994 to 2002, a group of over 50 countries have agreed at a United Nations conference on a raft of protection measures ... More >>
UN Urges Early Funding For Humanitarian Appeal
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 11:09 am | United Nations
UN Urges Early Funding For 2007 Humanitarian Appeal To Provide Aid Before It Is Too Late More >>
Somalia: UN Seeks To Re-Establish Aid Operations
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 10:38 am | United Nations
The international aid community must immediately avail itself of the window of opportunity that now exists in Somalia after the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) drove Islamist groups out of Mogadishu, the capital, by setting up substantial ... More >>
SG's Vision for Economic, Social Council
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 12:37 am | United Nations
Stressing the crucial role of development to the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today set out his vision for the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to foster greater progress in this field. More >>
SG Appeals to US on Peacekeeping
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 12:29 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that he has called on United States President George W. Bush and the country’s Congressional leaders to lift their spending cap on the United Nations peacekeeping budget, warning that if the limit remains then ... More >>
Bosnian Serb Soldier Pleads Guilty To Rape
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 12:16 am | United Nations
A former Bosnian Serb soldier and de facto military policeman today pleaded guilty before a United Nations war crimes tribunal to charges that he raped and tortured Bosnian Muslim women and girls during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. More >>
Possible UN Force in Central African Republic
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 4:27 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to submit his recommendations by the middle of next month on the possibility and scope of a formal United Nations presence in eastern Chad and the northeast of the Central African Republic (CAR) ... More >>
Sri Lanka Rebels Abduct Children to Fight
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 3:52 pm | United Nations
Sri Lankan children are being abducted to fight as soldiers in the bloody island conflict by separatist Tamil Tiger rebels and a breakaway group known as the Karuna faction, the Secretary-General has warned in his latest report to the Security Council, ... More >>
Secretary-General Urges Action
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 2:47 pm | United Nations
Children in Nepal were still being recruited by the Communist Party (Maoist) to serve as soldiers despite last April’s ceasefire with the Government, the Secretary-General has warned in his latest report to the Security Council, calling on the Maoists to ... More >>
Expert to US re Human Rights in War on Terror
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 1:56 pm | United Nations
An independent United Nations expert on safeguarding human rights while fighting terrorism is to visit the United States this spring at the invitation of its Government for wide-ranging discussions to help ensure that US counter-terrorism laws and practices ... More >>
Uganda: UN Agency And Microsoft Team Up
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 11:39 am | United Nations
The UN body tasked with promoting sustainable industry unveiled a joint project with Microsoft today to support rural Ugandan enterprises through technology. More >>
Over 34,000 Civilians Killed In Iraq In 2006
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 11:26 am | United Nations
Nearly 6,400 Iraqi civilians were killed in the November-December period, slightly less than in the preceding two months, as rampant and indiscriminate killings, sectarian violence, extra-judicial executions – and impunity for the perpetrators – continued ... More >>
Somalia: UN Agency Prepares for Permanent Presence
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 11:22 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency is working on setting up the first permanent international presence in the Galkayo area of Somalia’s northern autonomous Puntland region since the 1990s to cope with an influx of 12,000 people who fled the latest fighting in ... More >>
Rwanda: UN Genocide Tribunal Upholds Life Sentence
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 10:41 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda today confirmed the sentence of life imprisonment given to a former government finance minister for his role in the genocide that engulfed the country in 1994. More >>
Proposed Global Summit on Climate Change
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 10:39 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) today proposed the convening of a global summit backed by the UN to plan a future course of action for tackling the cross-cutting problem. More >>
Added UN Support to African Force in Darfur
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 10:35 am | United Nations
The United Nations and the African Union (AU) have intensified their preparations for the second phase of the process leading to the eventual deployment of a hybrid UN-AU peacekeeping force in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur. More >>
UN Agency Begins Feeding 500,000
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 10:32 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today started distributing food to 500,000 people in Uganda’s poorest region, Karamoja, where families are reeling from the effects of a third drought in six years, after the single rainy season from ... More >>
