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Blue Helmets Prepare to Leave Burundi
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 12:53 am | United Nations
With the United Nations Operation in Burundi (ONUB) ending its mandate on 31 December, officials from the world body today pledged continued support to the country as it seeks to consolidate peace. More >>
Haitian Kidnappings Sparks Alarm from UN Mission
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 12:32 am | United Nations
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti today expressed alarm at the sudden spate of kidnappings, especially of children, across the impoverished Caribbean country, and vowed to maintain its operations against the gangs responsible for the crimes. More >>
UN Helps Child Camel Jockeys from UAE Reintegrate
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 2:20 pm | United Nations
It might be impossible to thread a camel through the proverbial eye of a needle, but the United Nations is helping to get under-age child-jockeys off the backs of camels and reintegrate them into their home communities. More >>
SG Urges Cooperation Among Developing Nations
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 2:19 pm | United Nations
Marking United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on developing countries to work together more to tackle some of their greatest common threats and challenges, from extreme poverty to HIV/AIDS. More >>
Floods Rise Faster Than Funds for E Africa Aid
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 11:05 am | United Nations
Flood waters in East Africa are rising much faster than funding for United Nations efforts to feed some 1.5 million people whose lives are threatened by the disaster. More >>
New UN Envoy Arrives in Timor-Leste
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 11:04 am | United Nations
Reforming Timor-Leste’s security sector following this year’s deadly violence remains the top priority of the United Nations mission in the tiny South-East Asian nation, the UN’s new envoy said shortly after arriving, as international police ... More >>
Spain Donates $700 Million to Global Development
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 11:03 am | United Nations
Outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today praised Spain for donating $700 million to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a time-bound set of eight globally agreed targets that aim to combat poverty and other social ... More >>
Treaty on Cultural Diversity in Force in March
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 11:02 am | United Nations
A United Nations-backed international treaty to preserve the rich diversity of the world’s means of cultural expression from the dangers of globalization, including its many languages, will enter into force on 18 March after it topped the needed ... More >>
Asia’s Declining Fertility Patterns Under Spotligh
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 11:01 am | United Nations
Demographers and population specialists from 14 Asian nations have gathered in Bangkok for a three-day conference organized by the United Nations to discuss the latest challenges and issues posed by the region’s declining fertility rates. More >>
Former Gen Assembly President UN Envoy on Darfur
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 10:58 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced that the former General Assembly president and Swedish foreign minister Jan Eliasson has been appointed as a special envoy to deal with the spiralling humanitarian and security crisis in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur ... More >>
Nuclear Bomb-Grade Fuel Removed From Germany
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 10:49 am | United Nations
Nearly 270 kilos of fresh highly enriched uranium fuel (HEU) that could be used by terrorists to make nuclear explosives have been returned from a German research reactor to Russia in a secret airlift jointly monitored by the United Nations atomic watchdog ... More >>
New Measures Against Sexual Exploitation
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 10:46 am | United Nations
The United Nations Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations today called for continued efforts to formulate measures against sexual exploitation and abuse involving countries contributing troops to the world body's missions. More >>
UN Refugee Chief To Visit Chad
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 10:43 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations refugee agency leaves tomorrow on a two-day mission to Chad to strengthen efforts to maintain a vital lifeline for 370,000 refugees and internally displaced persons ( IDPs ) that is increasingly threatened by violence ... More >>
UN Repatriation Airlifts To Angola
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 10:36 am | United Nations
Thousands of refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Central African Republic (CAR) are scheduled to be airlifted to their respective homes in Angola and Sudan in the coming months under United Nations repatriation programmes, the ... More >>
Eritrean Families to Benefit from Scheme
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 12:10 am | United Nations
The United Nations agricultural development agency signed an agreement today with Eritrea to allow more than 200,000 families from the African country who have been hard hit by years of war and drought to participate in a programme designed to raise ... More >>
Need for Peoples to Understand Each Other Better
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 4:25 pm | United Nations
Calling for greater understanding between cultures, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today warned the General Assembly that in the current atmosphere of “rising tensions among societies” all humanity must work together to strengthen and improve ... More >>
Tsunami Trust Fund Money Detailed
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 3:11 pm | United Nations
Nearly all of the money deposited into a United Nations trust fund to help with the recovery after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 has been distributed, according to a report released today by the UN humanitarian branch. More >>
Annan Sends UN Envoy To Sudanese Capital
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 3:07 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan is dispatching a senior envoy to Khartoum for talks with Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir about the details of recent agreements on ending the widespread killing and displacement in the war-torn Darfur region, including ... More >>
UN Calls On States To Ratify Treaty
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 11:28 am | United Nations
The United Nations today marked International Migrant’s Day with fervent appeals for the vast majority of States who have not yet done so to adhere to the treaty that seeks to protect the rights of the estimated 195 million people around the world ... More >>
UN-Backed Operation To Help Repatriation
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 11:26 am | United Nations
Nearly 1 million of the 2.4 million Afghans still in Pakistan after fleeing the 1979 Soviet invasion and later factional fighting have now been registered in a United Nations-backed operation by the Government of Pakistan that seeks to yield valuable ... More >>
