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Militia Attack Against Palestinians in Baghdad
Friday, 15 December 2006, 4:42 pm | United Nations
Voicing alarm at a deadly attack by armed militia on a predominantly Palestinian neighbourhood in Baghdad, the United Nations refugee agency today renewed its call for the international community to provide a humanitarian solution for Palestinians ... More >>
Philippines Aid from UN After Multiple Typhoons
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:39 am | United Nations
The United Nations country team in Manila has requested $2.6 million for rapid response projects from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) after several typhoons wreaked havoc on the Philippines in recent weeks. More >>
Korea, Finland Share UN Computer Education Prize
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:38 am | United Nations
A Korean home learning system and a programme offering degrees by distance education in the Finnish region of Lapland are the first laureates of a prize awarded by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to encourage the ... More >>
Calls for Africa Democracy, Developmt, Integration
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:36 am | United Nations
Welcoming a major new treaty that seeks to bring peace to Africa’s troubled Great Lakes region, which has witnessed some of the world’s bloodiest wars, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the country’s leaders to focus not ... More >>
Killings of Two People Approaching Yemeni Coast
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:36 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has expressed concern after Yemeni security forces opened fire earlier this week on one of the many boats carrying people across the Gulf of Aden during the annual smuggling season, killing two people. More >>
Somalia: UN Launches $237 Million Appeal
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:35 am | United Nations
The United Nations today launched a $237-million humanitarian appeal for Somalia for 2007 to alleviate the suffering of 1.8 million people, including 1.4 million chronically hungry and 400,000 internally displaced, as the war-torn country reels ... More >>
Plan To Help Côte D’Ivoire Clean Up Toxic Waste
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:32 am | United Nations
The United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) today launched an international mission to help Côte d’Ivoire finalize and fund a plan to clean up and rehabilitate sites contaminated by deadly toxic waste that was illegally dumped in and around ... More >>
General Assembly Pays Warm Tribute To Annan
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:30 am | United Nations
With prolonged applause the 192-member United Nations General Assembly today paid warm tribute to Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the end of his 10-year tenure as it prepared to swear in his successor Ban Ki-moon, who will take over as the world’s ... More >>
Circumcision should Not Pre-Empt HIV Prevention
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:27 am | United Nations
United Nations health agencies have given a guarded welcome to United States trials in Africa showing that male circumcision halves the risk of HIV infection in men in heterosexual relations, warning that it should never pre-empt other preventive ... More >>
ICC Prosecutor: First Darfur Cases Almost Ready
Friday, 15 December 2006, 12:16 am | United Nations
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) informed the Security Council today that he is almost ready to bring cases about some of the worst war crimes committed in the Sudanese region of Darfur during the past three years. More >>
Japanese Soccer Ace Highlights School Feeding Prog
Friday, 15 December 2006, 12:15 am | United Nations
The recently retired Japanese soccer player Hidetoshi Nakata has joined forces with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to spotlight the agency’s free meal operations for schoolchildren in Cambodia, which is plagued by some of the lowest ... More >>
Asia-Pacific Region Set to Enjoy Strong Growth
Friday, 15 December 2006, 12:14 am | United Nations
A resurgent Japan will help the Asia-Pacific region offset any impact from a slowing United States economy, but there are increasing risks of a downside to the recent strong growth in developing countries, according to a new study by a United Nations ... More >>
Somalia: Envoy Calls for Return to Talks
Friday, 15 December 2006, 12:13 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy for Somalia today appealed to the warring parties to settle their differences peacefully as the impoverished African country, already torn apart by 16 years of factional fighting, faced the additional challenge of devastating ... More >>
Vaccine Common in US Could Save Life of 1 A Minute
Thursday, 14 December 2006, 11:08 am | United Nations
Two children die every hour from easily preventable pneumococcal diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean, and there are more than 1.6 million cases of the illnesses that include pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis as well as severe ear infections, sinusitis ... More >>
High-Level Human Rights Mission to Darfur
Thursday, 14 December 2006, 11:07 am | United Nations
The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed to dispatch a five-member high-level mission to Darfur to assess the situation in the war-torn Sudanese region, the scene of hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, mass rape, massive forced displacement ... More >>
Rwandan Former Priest Sentenced for War Crimes
Thursday, 14 December 2006, 11:06 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda today sentenced a former Roman Catholic priest who encouraged and directed the demolition of a church where about 2,000 Tutsis had tried to take shelter during the 1994 genocide – killing all those ... More >>
S. Africa’s Future Depends On Tackling HIV/AIDS
Thursday, 14 December 2006, 10:46 am | United Nations
With more than 3.3 million children in southern Africa already orphaned by HIV/AIDS, the region’s future depends on governments’ halting the disease’s effects and ensuring that orphans receive good nutrition, education and care, a senior United ... More >>
UN Fund Provides Bed Nets To Fight Malaria
Thursday, 14 December 2006, 10:42 am | United Nations
The United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is drastically increasing the number of insecticide-treated bed nets for families at risk from malaria, a key tool to preventing the mosquito-borne disease which kills ... More >>
UN-Backed Group Boosts Environmental Safeguards
Thursday, 14 December 2006, 10:40 am | United Nations
The Carpathian region of Europe, a vast area of forests, streams and mountains that is home to brown bears, wolves, bison, lynx, imperial eagles and other globally threatened birds, received further protection at a United Nations-backed conference today with ... More >>
Deadly Air Pollution In Asian Cities
Thursday, 14 December 2006, 10:38 am | United Nations
With 600,000 people in Asia dying prematurely from air pollution each year, the continent’s major cities face a key challenge in reducing the daunting figure, according to a new United Nations-backed report: although vehicle emissions are being reduced, the ... More >>
