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UN Envoy to Northern Ugandan Conflict
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 12:32 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy for the conflict in northern Uganda has arrived in southern Sudan for talks on how to achieve a political settlement and end the brutal 20-year rebellion of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). More >>
Second Group of Military Staff Officers to Darfur
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 4:19 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) today announced plans to deploy a second group of 10 military staff officers to Darfur to support the African Union Mission (AMIS) in the troubled region. More >>
Afghan Envoy Hails Naming of New Police Officials
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 4:17 pm | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Afghanistan has welcomed a Presidential decree confirming the appointment of 40 new police officials to the country's national force as a step towards stability. More >>
Conference on Eliminating Adult Illiteracy
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 3:30 pm | United Nations
With an estimated 781 million adults, or one in five of the world’s total, unable to read or write, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today called for a massive increase in training literacy teachers. More >>
Afghanistan: Aid for Stepped Up Displaced Families
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 3:29 pm | United Nations
United Nations agencies have launched a month long emergency operation to provide humanitarian aid to more than 15,000 Afghan families displaced by the insurgency in Kandahar province. More >>
Georgia: Concerned at Recent Spike in Violence
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 3:15 pm | United Nations
Warning that recent deadly violence between Abkhaz separatists and Georgian authorities could escalate, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged all sides to “engage in dialogue” to bring peace to a region where fighting forced nearly 300,000 refugees ... More >>
Iraq: Rights Chief Expresses Regret at Hangings
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 3:13 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations human rights official has voiced regret over today’s execution in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, of the two co-defendants of former president Saddam Hussein. More >>
Envoy Pleas for End to Darfur Violence
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 2:57 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Envoy for Darfur has wrapped up his mission to Sudan with a first-hand visit to the war-torn region, where he urged the parties to stop the violence in order to pave the way for a political settlement. More >>
Peacekeeping Options Team Heads to Central Africa
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 2:39 pm | United Nations
A United Nations assessment mission will head to the Central African Republic (CAR) within the next fortnight to consider whether blue helmets should be sent to stabilize the troubled country and its neighbour Chad in the wake of recent clashes between ... More >>
Water Needs: Extreme Marathon Runners Cross Sahara
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 2:38 pm | United Nations
Running the equivalent of two marathons a day in some of the harshest conditions on Earth, three young athletes have pounded approximately two thirds of their way across the Sahara Desert in a United Nations-backed bid to raise awareness of the ... More >>
Women And Girls Must Be Protected from Violence
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 2:32 pm | United Nations
States who have signed on to the United Nations international bill of rights for women must continue to press for an end to gender-based violence, a senior UN official today told experts gathering in New York to evaluate compliance with the treaty. More >>
Record Contributions to UN Population Fund
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 2:17 pm | United Nations
One hundred and eighty countries contributed $360 million to the regular resources of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) last year, the highest number of donors and the largest total since the organization began its operations in 1969 to promote ... More >>
Peaceful Response To Ex-Interior Minister’s Trial
Monday, 15 January 2007, 11:28 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy in Timor-Leste today welcomed the peaceful response by the population to the trial of former Interior Minister Rogerio Lobato and his co-defendants, who are being tried for allegedly arming civilians during the deadly violence that ... More >>
UN Envoy Travels To Darfur For Talks
Monday, 15 January 2007, 11:19 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Envoy for Darfur heads to the war-torn region today for talks as part of United Nations efforts to find a durable solution to the conflict that has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced at least 2.5 ... More >>
Rural Mortality Rates In China Outpace Urban Areas
Monday, 15 January 2007, 11:14 am | United Nations
Mortality rates in China’s least developed rural areas, where just under half the country’s 1.3 billion people live, are four to six times higher than urban areas, accounting for three quarters of total mortality, and the Government should give ... More >>
UN-Backed Body ‘Disappointed’ By Bird Trade Ban
Monday, 15 January 2007, 11:11 am | United Nations
An indefinite European Union (EU) ban on wild bird imports, adopted to prevent the spread of bird flu to humans, risks creating black markets by ending a legal and tightly managed trade and undermining poor African communities who depend on it, ... More >>
Un Call For Report On Sanctions
Monday, 15 January 2007, 11:06 am | United Nations
DPR Korea: Panel Chair Calls On States To Report Steps Being Taken To Enforce Sanctions More >>
Call For UN Officials To Be Judged On Merit
Monday, 15 January 2007, 10:51 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on journalists to judge his recently appointed top officials by their performance and said they were chosen following a thorough selection process. More >>
Ban Calls for More Diplomatic Efforts on Somalia
Monday, 15 January 2007, 10:04 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that while he understood the “necessity” behind the recent United States military operations in Somalia, aimed at suspected Al-Qaida targets, diplomatic efforts must be redoubled to bring ... More >>
Refugee Crisis in Central Africa Eases
Monday, 15 January 2007, 10:01 am | United Nations
Although the long-standing refugee crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa continued to ease last year with tens of thousands of people criss-crossing borders to get home, serious challenges still remain in what has become a complex two-way traffic, ... More >>
