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UN: ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy Against Sexual Abuse
Monday, 8 January 2007, 10:02 am | United Nations
The United Nations, which fields nearly 200,000 people from well over 100 countries rotating through its peacekeeping missions every year, is determined to reinforce its policy of zero tolerance and remains constantly vigilant to fight the scourge, ... More >>
Ban Ki-moon Submits Financial Disclosure Form
Monday, 8 January 2007, 10:00 am | United Nations
Continuing United Nations efforts to make the world body more transparent, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who took the rein on 1 January, has already submitted his financial disclosure form to the Ethics Office, his spokesperson said today, adding that he ... More >>
UN Hopes Israel, Palestinians Avoid Violence
Monday, 8 January 2007, 9:58 am | United Nations
The chief United Nations spokesperson today voiced the hope that Israel and the Palestinians would exercise restraint in the light of some recent positive developments and avoid violence such as yesterday’s Israeli military incursion into the main Palestinian ... More >>
Suspected Killer Of Blue Helmets In Haiti Arrested
Monday, 8 January 2007, 9:57 am | United Nations
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the country’s national police today announced the arrest of a gang member wanted in connection with the killing last November of two blue helmets serving with the peacekeeping ... More >>
Tanzanian Named New UN Deputy Secretary-General
Monday, 8 January 2007, 9:56 am | United Nations
Tanzanian Foreign Minister Asha-Rose Migiro today became the third person – and second woman – in history appointed United Nations Deputy Secretary-General when she accepted the post offered to her by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. More >>
UN Chief Calls For Reinstatement Of Fiji’s Govt
Monday, 8 January 2007, 9:53 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for the reinstatement of Fiji’s “legitimate authority,” following the announcement that the leader of last December’s coup d’état has become Prime Minister of the country. More >>
New Outbreak Of Fatal Rift Valley Fever
Monday, 8 January 2007, 9:50 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies are helping to draw up an action plan to fight a new outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in the Horn of Africa amid concerns that climate change with successive droughts and floods, some of it human-caused, could increase the ... More >>
UN Human Rights Expert Deplores Saddam’s Trial
Friday, 5 January 2007, 9:01 am | United Nations
Citing “glaring flaws” in the trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who was hanged on Saturday, and his co-defendants, an independent United Nations human rights expert has called on the Iraqi Government to halt the other executions ... More >>
Bird Flu Expert Takes Over As New WHO Head
Friday, 5 January 2007, 8:54 am | United Nations
Margaret Chan, a Chinese doctor who played a key role in United Nations efforts to prevent bird flu from mutating into a deadly human pandemic, took office today as head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO), vowing to improve the health of Africans ... More >>
Indonesia: Relief Efforts Contain Effects Of Flood
Friday, 5 January 2007, 8:52 am | United Nations
Many of the most serious effects of the flooding that killed some 100 people and left over 200,000 in need of urgent assistance in the Indonesian province of Aceh have been brought under control since the start of the year, the United Nations Children’s ... More >>
UN Sees 2007 As Critical Year To Boost Tourism
Friday, 5 January 2007, 8:51 am | United Nations
UN Agency Sees 2007 As Critical Year To Boost Tourism As Key Agent In War On Poverty More >>
Peacekeepers Accused Of Abuse Already Repatriated
Friday, 5 January 2007, 12:46 am | United Nations
Michele Montas told journalists that the blue helmets were repatriated a few months ago as a result of investigations by a UN team that began in February last year. Inquiries are continuing into misconduct allegations – not all of which involve ... More >>
First Meeting Of UN Task Force On Darfur Crisis
Friday, 5 January 2007, 12:34 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will today chair the first meeting of the United Nations-wide Darfur Task Force, a new grouping set up by the Organization to help guide and streamline efforts to end the spiralling humanitarian and security crisis in the strife-torn ... More >>
UN Call For Iraq Not To Hang Saddam's Colleagues
Thursday, 4 January 2007, 4:00 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations human rights official appealed directly to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani today not to execute two high-ranking colleagues of former president Saddam Hussein, who was hanged on Saturday. More >>
UN Alarmed By Reports Of Sexual Abuse
Thursday, 4 January 2007, 3:48 pm | United Nations
Voicing deep concern at media reports that United Nations peacekeepers in southern Sudan have engaged in sexual exploitation and abuse of locals, including children, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon soundly denounced the practice while pointing out that ... More >>
More Than 20 UN Personnel Killed In 2006
Thursday, 4 January 2007, 3:46 pm | United Nations
Fatal attacks against United Nations personnel last year claimed the lives of at least 22 peacekeepers and civilian staff, mostly in southern Lebanon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Haiti, Sudan, and Afghanistan, the world body’s staff ... More >>
UN Focuses on Congo, Middle East And Côte D'ivoire
Thursday, 4 January 2007, 10:59 am | United Nations
DR Congo, Middle East And Côte D'ivoire To Dominate Security Council In January More >>
British Diplomat Named New UN Humanitarian Chief
Thursday, 4 January 2007, 9:57 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appointed the veteran British diplomat John Holmes as the new United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. More >>
Somalia: UN Food Relief For Flood Victims
Thursday, 4 January 2007, 9:15 am | United Nations
United Nations emergency feeding operations for up to half a million flood victims in Somalia have started to return to normal after being disrupted over the last two weeks by fighting between the Ethiopian-backed transitional government and Islamic ... More >>
Commitment To UN Management Reform
Wednesday, 3 January 2007, 2:40 pm | United Nations
Stressing his determination to follow through on the goal of management reform at the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon used his first address to staff as Secretary-General to call on them to work with him to help make the Organization more mobile, professional ... More >>
