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WHO Plans To Boost Treatment For Rabies
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 10:05 am | United Nations
With more than 12 million people suffering dog or snake bites and scorpion stings each year, the United Nations health agency today announced plans to boost the production of crucial therapeutic sera which can make the difference between life and death ... More >>
UN Children’s Fund Staffer Shot Dead In Baghdad
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 10:04 am | United Nations
A United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) staff member was shot dead while driving his car in Baghdad yesterday, sparking mournful tributes to the late father of two who devoted over seven years of his life to improving Iraq’s shattered education ... More >>
UN Special Envoy Arrives In Sudan
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 9:41 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Envoy for Darfur has arrived in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on the second stage of a mission promoting United Nations efforts to find a permanent solution to a conflict that has killed more than 200,000 people ... More >>
Brazilian General To Be New Force Commander
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 9:05 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today named Major General Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz of Brazil as the new Force Commander of the peacekeeping UN Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). More >>
Stability In Dr Congo Will Benefit Whole Of Africa
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 12:06 am | United Nations
While stressing the importance of last year’s historic elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the first held there in more than 40 years, two top United Nations officials today told the Security Council that continued international ... More >>
SG: Darfur, Middle East, Conflict Key Issues
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 3:34 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today told the Security Council that stepping up efforts to resolve the Darfur crisis is one of his top priorities, warning of an ever worsening humanitarian crisis in this strife-torn part of Sudan, as he ... More >>
UN Envoy Attends African Union Meeting On Somalia
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 2:37 pm | United Nations
The United Nations envoy for Somalia today attended the Peace and Security Commission meeting in Addis Ababa of the African Union (AU), which is discussing responses to the situation in the troubled Horn of Africa country. More >>
Darfur: UN Special Envoy Mission To Sudan
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 2:16 pm | United Nations
The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Darfur has embarked upon a mission to the war-torn Darfur region to push ahead with efforts to find a permanent solution to the conflict which has killed more than 200,000 people since 2003. More >>
UNDP Chief Embarks On Visit To Central America
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 11:28 am | United Nations
To learn first-hand of the obstacles to development facing Central America, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is on a ten-day tour of the region. More >>
UN Launches $60-Million Appeal Displaced Iraqis
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 10:58 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today launched a $60-million appeal to fund its work over the next year for hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) affected by the conflict in Iraq. More >>
Call for the Protection of Civilians in Sri Lanka
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 9:42 am | United Nations
Condemning the latest attacks on civilians in strife-torn Sri Lanka, which left more than 20 dead and dozens maimed, the United Nations office on the island today called for their immediate protection and warned of worsening conditions in the east, where ... More >>
Gates Foundation Gives $3 Million To Fight Malaria
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 8:44 am | United Nations
A United Nations-backed campaign to fight malaria in Africa has received its first-ever challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a pledge to match dollar for dollar up to $3 million in individual contributions to the programme to fight ... More >>
Sudan: UN Agency To Feed Nearly 2 Million People
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 8:43 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) plans to feed nearly 2 million people in southern Sudan this year, the agency said in a statement today marking the second anniversary of a peace accord that ended 21 years of war between Government and rebel ... More >>
Central African Republic: UN Reports Security Dete
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 12:19 am | United Nations
Security in the Central African Republic (CAR) has deteriorated over the past two months, especially in the north and along the borders with Chad and the Sudan, according to the latest United Nations report on the impoverished country where humanitarian ... More >>
Central African Republic: UN Reports Security Dete
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 12:19 am | United Nations
Security in the Central African Republic (CAR) has deteriorated over the past two months, especially in the north and along the borders with Chad and the Sudan, according to the latest United Nations report on the impoverished country where humanitarian ... More >>
Ban Calls on Myanmar to Release Political Prisoner
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 12:15 am | United Nations
Welcoming reports that Myanmar recently released dozens of political prisoners, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for the freeing of all others, including democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest ... More >>
Georgia: UN Deplores Killing Of Policeman
Monday, 8 January 2007, 10:06 am | United Nations
The United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) today condemned an attack on a checkpoint that left one policeman dead and another wounded, calling on the Government and Abkhaz separatists to prevent a further escalation of violence. More >>
UN Urges Iraq Not To Execute Those On Death Row
Monday, 8 January 2007, 10:05 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the Government of Iraq to grant a stay of execution to those whose death sentences may be carried out in the near future. More >>
Int. Group Says Somalia Has ‘Historic Opportunity’
Monday, 8 January 2007, 10:04 am | United Nations
Meeting today for the first time since last week’s heavy fighting in Somalia, which may have given the Transitional Government of the long-troubled country the chance to establish its full authority, the International Contact Group for Somalia – ... More >>
Darfur: UN Envoy Heads To Sudan For Talks With Gov
Monday, 8 January 2007, 10:03 am | United Nations
The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Darfur heads to Sudan and neighbouring Ethiopia tonight for almost a week of talks and meetings with officials from the Sudanese Government, the African Union (AU) and other groups to discuss how to find ... More >>
