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El Niño Weather Likely to Persist Till March
Monday, 4 December 2006, 4:39 pm | United Nations
A moderate El Niño across the tropical Pacific is expected to persist until at least March, according to the latest United Nations forecast issued today on the periodic weather pattern that can have repercussions around the world, from torrential rains ... More >>
Clinton Visits Asia for Last Time as Tsunami Envoy
Monday, 4 December 2006, 4:38 pm | United Nations
Former United States President Bill Clinton starts his last visit to Asia today as the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, making stops in India, Thailand and Indonesia to review rebuilding progress after the ravages of the 2004 ... More >>
W African Youth Commit to a Better Future at Forum
Monday, 4 December 2006, 2:29 pm | United Nations
More than 80 youth representatives from 10 West African countries attending a United Nations-backed conference pledged today to help their peers throughout the region by taking steps to improve sexual and reproductive health, encourage education, work ... More >>
Actor Rupert Everett Special Rep for UNAIDS
Monday, 4 December 2006, 1:23 pm | United Nations
The British actor Rupert Everett was today named as a Special Representative for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), tasked with raising public awareness and encouraging the film and broader media industry to participate more ... More >>
UN Fully Takes Over Policing Role in Timor Leste
Monday, 4 December 2006, 11:21 am | United Nations
In a further effort to reduce lawlessness in Timor Leste, particularly after two people were killed in the capital earlier this week, the United Nations will now have prime responsibility for police operations throughout the small and impoverished ... More >>
Youth Should Play Greater Role in Migration Issues
Monday, 4 December 2006, 11:21 am | United Nations
Young people should play a greater role in addressing migration, gender equality, human rights, the dialogue among civilizations and other issues affecting the world today, the United Nations General Assembly president told a gathering of students ... More >>
Envoy Inaugurates Another Liberia Police Station
Monday, 4 December 2006, 11:07 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy to Liberia has inaugurated a new police station in Lofa County as part of the world body’s continued effort to help the West African nation rebuild after 14 years of bloody civil war was replaced by democracy. More >>
Medical Staff And Supplies Needed to Aid Malakal
Monday, 4 December 2006, 10:27 am | United Nations
Medical staff and supplies are urgently needed to step-up treatment to those wounded by the fighting in Malakal, South Sudan, where several hundred soldiers and civilians were injured during two days of fighting late last month, the United Nations reported ... More >>
Govts Vow to Speed Up Efforts on Electronic Waste
Monday, 4 December 2006, 12:26 am | United Nations
The member governments to a United Nations-sponsored global pact on the transport and disposal of hazardous waste agreed today to accelerate their efforts to reduce the impact and damage caused by the rapid recent growth in electronic waste. More >>
Bosnian Serb General Sentenced To Life In Jail
Friday, 1 December 2006, 3:30 pm | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today sentenced a former Bosnian Serb general to life in prison after dismissing an appeal against his convictions for his role in the long siege of the city of Sarajevo during the ... More >>
Agreement For Return Of Congolese Refugees
Friday, 1 December 2006, 3:29 pm | United Nations
The governments of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have signed a tripartite agreement with the United Nations refuge agency that paves the way for the voluntary return home of 60,000 Congolese. More >>
Food Agency Backs Hip-Hopper to Boost Haiti Devpmt
Friday, 1 December 2006, 1:53 pm | United Nations
Supported by the United Nations food agency, internationally renowned hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean is convening a one-week festival in Haiti aimed at using culture and the arts to encourage young people to help boost sustainable development in the Western ... More >>
Lebanon: UN Peacekeeping Force Reaches 11,500
Friday, 1 December 2006, 1:52 pm | United Nations
The enhanced United Nations peacekeeping force sent to Lebanon this summer to monitor the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hizbollah now totals 11,500 troops from 21 countries, just 3,500 below its mandated maximum strength, with additional ... More >>
Kosovo: Protesters Attack UN HQ; No Injuries
Friday, 1 December 2006, 1:51 pm | United Nations
Some 2,000 members of a pro-independence ethnic Albanian group in Kosovo attacked United Nations personnel yesterday in the Serbian province’s capital, Pristina, pulling down a 4-metre tall concrete barricade outside UN headquarters and hurling ... More >>
Nobel Laureate Tutu to Head UN Israel Rights Probe
Friday, 1 December 2006, 1:50 pm | United Nations
Former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu will head the United Nations Human Rights Council fact-finding mission into Israeli military operations in Gaza established after 19 Palestinian civilians were killed ... More >>
Haiti - UN Pledges To Ensure Peaceful Process
Friday, 1 December 2006, 10:20 am | United Nations
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) will assist the country’s authorities to ensure peaceful run of municipal and local elections slated to start this Sunday, when Haitians go to polls to elect representatives and finish a number ... More >>
World Not Living Up To Its Responsibility - Darfur
Friday, 1 December 2006, 10:17 am | United Nations
World ‘Not Living Up’ To Its Responsibility To Protect In Darfur, Iraq, Gaza: Un Aid Chief More >>
UN Effort For Eco-Friendly Sports Wins Gold
Friday, 1 December 2006, 10:15 am | United Nations
UN Effort For Eco-Friendly Sports Wins Gold With New Report On 2006 Winter Olympics More >>
Security Council Extends Group Tracking Flows
Friday, 1 December 2006, 10:13 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today condemned the spike in Somalia’s weapons trade and extended the mandate of a group of experts monitoring the flow of arms for an additional six months. More >>
‘Serious Violation’ Of Peace Agreement In Sudan
Friday, 1 December 2006, 10:11 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced alarm about this week’s outbreak of violence in the southern Sudanese town of Malakal, saying the clashes there are a serious violation of last year’s comprehensive peace agreement that ended a 21-year civil ... More >>
