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Annan ‘Deeply Concerned’ At Libyan Death Sentences
Sunday, 24 December 2006, 1:32 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his deep concern at the death sentence imposed by a Libyan court on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for the alleged intentional transmission of HIV/AIDS to hundreds of children. More >>
Georgia: UN Resumes Joint Patrols Of Kodori Valley
Sunday, 24 December 2006, 1:24 pm | United Nations
UN Mission In Georgia Resumes Joint Patrols Of Kodori Valley After Break Of 3 Years More >>
Asia-Pacific Environment At Boiling Point
Sunday, 24 December 2006, 1:23 pm | United Nations
Asian and Pacific societies are already living beyond their ecological means, and if they are to continue their much-needed economic expansion, they will have to shift towards efficient ‘green growth’ patterns, according to a new United Nations ... More >>
UN Call To Protect Hundreds Of Thousands in Chad
Sunday, 24 December 2006, 1:22 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations refugee agency today visited strife-torn eastern Chad, calling for a stronger international presence to protect hundreds of thousands of Sudanese fleeing war in their homeland, Chadians displaced by the spreading violence, ... More >>
Fresh Alarm At Attacks On Palestinians In Iraq
Sunday, 24 December 2006, 1:21 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today voiced growing concern for 15,000 Palestinians remaining in Iraq “living in a climate of constant fear,” after a group of 41 of them fleeing Baghdad to escape increasing violence, harassment and targeted killings ... More >>
Gender Equality And Dialogue Among Civilizations
Friday, 22 December 2006, 1:58 pm | United Nations
The United Nations General Assembly will next year discuss gender equality as a key element of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of time-bound targets aimed at slashing poverty and other global ills, as well as holding a separate debate on ... More >>
Globalization Must Be ‘More Inclusive’
Friday, 22 December 2006, 1:46 pm | United Nations
Warning of growing inequalities both within and between countries at a time of widespread economic growth, a senior United Nations official today said the process of globalization must be made more inclusive in order to benefit the world’s poor. More >>
Lessons From Asia Tsunami Recovery Effort
Friday, 22 December 2006, 1:45 pm | United Nations
United Nations agencies, aid partners and governments must pass on the lessons learned from dealing with the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed over 230,000 people and affected more than 12 countries, the UN’s special envoy for the disaster, ... More >>
Turn Guns Into Guitars, UN Tells Colombia
Friday, 22 December 2006, 10:50 am | United Nations
In biblical days the injunction was to beat swords into ploughshares. Now the United Nations crime-fighting agency is calling on Colombia, with one of the highest homicide rates in the world, to do more to crack down on organized crime and arms trafficking, ... More >>
UN AIDS Programme Calls For Review Of Sentences
Friday, 22 December 2006, 10:48 am | United Nations
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS) has called on Libyan courts to review the death sentence imposed on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for the alleged intentional transmission of HIV to hundreds of children in light ... More >>
Intra-Palestinian Violence In Gaza
Friday, 22 December 2006, 10:40 am | United Nations
Armed clashes between rival Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip are endangering United Nations humanitarian operations “and taking a population that has been living in abject misery for the entire year to breaking point,” the UN agency that tends ... More >>
Raise Funds for Refugee Agency with An Armani Mug
Friday, 22 December 2006, 9:31 am | United Nations
Legendary Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani is toasting a better future for refugees this festive season with a limited edition of a sleek mug sporting the Chinese character for hope, which he has created to help support the work of the United Nations ... More >>
Forum on Government Reform in Vienna Next Year
Friday, 22 December 2006, 9:30 am | United Nations
The United Nations has opened registration for a conference to be held at its Vienna headquarters next June, the first time the world organization has hosted the event that will bring together national leaders, business executives and civil society ... More >>
Renewed Sanctions on Liberian 'Blood Diamonds'
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 3:40 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today renewed the sanctions aimed at preventing Liberia from exporting “blood diamonds” or resuming the trade in arms and called on Secretary-General Kofi Annan to reappoint the Panel of Experts overseeing the ban. More >>
States Must Do More to Combat Terrorism
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 3:40 pm | United Nations
Reaffirming its strong stance against terrorism, the United Nations Security Council today called for States to combat the scourge and welcomed measures to boost and monitor their efforts. More >>
Slow Progress on World Development Goals
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 3:38 pm | United Nations
Progress on attaining the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which seek to tackle poverty, hunger and other social ills by 2015, remains slow but countries are realizing the importance of the life-and-death targets and increasingly know ... More >>
New Stability Pact for Africa’s Great Lakes Region
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 3:38 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today backed the recently concluded Pact on Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes region of Africa, which a United Nations envoy said holds the potential to consolidate gains in a part of the world that has been ... More >>
Côte D’ivoire: UN Appeals For Funds
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 10:17 am | United Nations
Côte d’Ivoire is facing a funding shortfall of at least 15 million euros for the clean-up and rehabilitation of sites contaminated by hundreds of tonnes of deadly foreign toxic waste that was criminally dumped around Abidjan, its largest city with ... More >>
Health Risks Threaten Millions In Floods
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 10:15 am | United Nations
With increased risks of cholera, dysentery, measles and malaria threatening millions of people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia due to severe drought followed by the worst floods in recent memory, the United Nations health agency has called for concerted ... More >>
Chicago Bulls Slam-Dunk For UN Efforts
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 10:12 am | United Nations
First it was the International Rugby Board scrumming down, then the England and Wales cricket team going out to bat. Now it’s the Chicago Bulls slam-dunking for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in the agency’s latest teaming up with ... More >>
