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Iraq: Un Envoy Calls For Unity In Face Of Bombings
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 11:22 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy to Iraq today called on all Iraqis to unite in the face of the recent surge of violence, voicing dismay at last week’s car-bombing in Baghdad in which scores of innocent people were killed or injured, and yesterday’s kidnapping ... More >>
UN Launches New Standards For Ex-Fighters
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 11:20 am | United Nations
With decades of experience in disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating (DDR) ex-combatants, including some 400,000 over the past five years alone, the United Nations today launched a new set of standards aimed at improving the process, which is considered essential ... More >>
Appeal to Fund Haiti Agriculture, Good Governance
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 11:00 am | United Nations
The United Nations today appealed for $98 million to help Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, with basic services, political governance and economic recovery, as the Government works to bring stability following this year’s elections. More >>
Helping Uzbekistan Immunize Youth Against Measles
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 10:58 am | United Nations
In health facilities and bazaars, schools and mahallas (traditional neighbourhood committees) more than 620,000 young people in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, are being vaccinated against measles and rubella in a mass United Nations-backed ... More >>
Food Official Recalls the Horrors Depicted in Film
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 10:56 am | United Nations
At a time when the film Blood Diamond depicts the efforts of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to feed the hacked and mutilated victims of Sierra Leone’s savage civil war during the 1990s, an agency officials intimately involved in the ... More >>
UN’s Agricultural Development Agency Awards
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 9:59 am | United Nations
The United Nations agricultural development agency has approved almost $300 million in loans and grants to back rural assistance projects in 16 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. More >>
Nobel Laureates Back UN Efforts For Cancer Therapy
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 9:56 am | United Nations
South African Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have thrown their support behind a United Nations programme to promote cancer radiation therapy in developing countries, where every day thousands of patients go without ... More >>
Probe Into Murder of Former Lebanese Leader
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 12:42 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations probe into last year’s assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri told the Security Council that his investigation into the deadly explosion and 14 other bombings is “approaching a sensitive and complicated ... More >>
Georgia: Official Praises Strategy for Displaced
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 12:41 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations envoy for the rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) today praised Georgia’s new draft strategy for dealing with the problem, especially the right to return and to local integration, but stressed the need to see that the ... More >>
UN Forum On Palestinian Rights Adopts Declaration
Monday, 18 December 2006, 3:57 pm | United Nations
A United Nations forum on Palestinian rights meeting in Malaysia has adopted a Declaration decrying recent deaths in the Middle East and calling for a new system to protect civilians there. More >>
Pressure On Balkan Fugitives Urged
Sunday, 17 December 2006, 3:00 pm | United Nations
The Security Council must send a message to Radovan Karadžic and Ratko Mladic, the most notorious fugitives remaining from the Balkan wars of the 1990s, that, regardless of when they are arrested, they will face trial at the United Nations war crimes ... More >>
Sharpening Focus On Global Goals,
Sunday, 17 December 2006, 2:57 pm | United Nations
The United Nations development agency is working towards bringing more focus to its efforts to reach global development goals, respond better to emergencies – based partly on lessons learned from the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami – and ... More >>
Marking Human Solidarity Day
Sunday, 17 December 2006, 2:50 pm | United Nations
The world has a collective responsibility to alleviate the plight of the poorest people, and to promote economic development and break the cycle that traps so many people in poverty by devising more innovative solutions, United Nations officials ... More >>
Repatriation Of Sudanese From Ethiopia Resumed
Sunday, 17 December 2006, 2:48 pm | United Nations
After a more than six-month suspension due to the rainy season, the United Nations refugee agency has resumed the assisted repatriation of Sudanese from Ethiopia with a first group of 500 leaving for their homeland earlier this week, the vanguard of ... More >>
Fight To End Darfur Killings Critical
Sunday, 17 December 2006, 2:44 pm | United Nations
The battle to end the mass killings and displacement in Sudan’s Darfur region is nearing “a watershed moment” that will determine whether the international community will take decisive action or stand by and witness a repeat of the Rwandan genocide ... More >>
Film Festival In War Against Hunger
Sunday, 17 December 2006, 2:41 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) has joined some of the most influential artists, intellectuals and business people of the Spanish-speaking world at the launch of the Latin America Solidarity Action Foundation (ALAS), an initiative of Latin ... More >>
2006 On Track To Be 6th Warmest Year On Record
Sunday, 17 December 2006, 2:39 pm | United Nations
The year 2006 is currently estimated to be the sixth warmest on record with prolonged drought in some regions, heavy rainfall and flooding in others and deadly typhoons in south-east Asia, according to the latest update by the United Nations World Meteorological ... More >>
Ratification Of Treaty Against Nuclear Terrorism
Sunday, 17 December 2006, 2:37 pm | United Nations
The United Nations top legal official today appealed to Member States to become parties to the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism. More >>
Five Migrants Beaten To Death
Sunday, 17 December 2006, 2:33 pm | United Nations
The perilous people-smuggling across the Gulf of Aden, which this year alone has brought tens of thousands of Somalis and Ethiopians to Yemen, is claiming more lives, with five migrants savagely beaten to death and thrown overboard by the smugglers ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Young Child Among 7 Killed
Sunday, 17 December 2006, 2:13 pm | United Nations
A young child was among seven Sri Lankan displaced persons who died today when their boat capsized while they were fleeing fighting between Government troops and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the east of the island, the ... More >>
