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UN Health Charter Targets Obesity In Europe
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 2:51 pm | United Nations
Healthier diets, more physical activity and protection from commercial influence are high on the menu to reduce obesity throughout Europe, especially among children, under a charter adopted at a three-day United Nations health meeting currently underway ... More >>
UN Concern At Deteriorating Health Services
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 2:23 pm | United Nations
New York, Nov 20 2006 9:00PM Worried by the rapid deterioration of Palestinians’ access to adequate medical services due to a financial crisis and a strike by unpaid workers, the United Nations health agency has called on the parties concerned to ... More >>
Family Violence Kills 80, 000 Young Each Year
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 2:21 pm | United Nations
80,000 Young Die Every Year In Latin America, Caribbean Due To Family Violence – UN New York, Nov 20 2006 9:00PM Scores of thousands of children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean die every year because of violence related to a combination ... More >>
UN Concerned At Disappearance In Kazakhstan
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 9:48 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today expressed deep concern over the fate of a Chinese Uighur asylum seeker in Kazakhstan who it fears might have been deported, as well as Thailand’s deportation to Laos of 53 ethnic Hmong, including a newborn ... More >>
UN Rights Chief Warns Of Crisis In Chad
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 9:41 am | United Nations
Deadly violence, maiming and burning of people alive is increasingly spilling over from strife-torn Darfur to neighbouring Chad and displacing thousands, United Nations agencies said today, as the world body’s human rights chief warned of a full-blown ... More >>
General Assembly President Urges Action
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 9:38 am | United Nations
Orphaned children are among the most vulnerable groups in the world, and the international community must work to protect them, the United Nations General Assembly President said this evening. More >>
Annan Condemns Assassination Of Lebanese Minister
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 9:36 am | United Nations
Expressing shock after learning of today’s assassination of Lebanon’s Minister of Industry Pierre Gemayel, Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged all parties in the troubled country to “maintain national unity at this critical moment.” More >>
Killings In Timor-Leste Prompt UN Police Activity
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 9:31 am | United Nations
The United Nations is stepping up its police presence in Timor-Leste after two killings in the past 24 hours in Dili, the capital of the small and impoverished South-East Asian nation. More >>
UN-African Union Force For Darfur Agreed
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 9:29 am | United Nations
Sudan’s Government today agreed with the United Nations, the African Union (AU) and representatives from Security Council countries and others to allow UN peacekeepers into Darfur alongside those of the AU mission already there trying to halt the spiralling ... More >>
UN Human Rights Chief Decries ‘Massive’ Violations
Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 10:37 am | United Nations
The top United Nations human rights official said today that “massive” violations against civilians had taken place in the Gaza Strip as she began a five-day tour of the region following Israel’s deadly assault on the occupied Palestinian territory ... More >>
Nepalese Deal Can Translate Into 'Long-Term Peace'
Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 12:33 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy to Nepal welcomed today’s signing of a comprehensive peace agreement between the Himalayan country’s multi-party Government and the Maoists, saying the pact “promises to convert the ceasefire into long-term peace.” More >>
Union Force For Darfur ‘Agreed In Principle’
Friday, 17 November 2006, 3:42 pm | United Nations
Sudan’s Government today agreed with the United Nations, the African Union (AU) and representatives from Security Council countries and others to allow UN peacekeepers into Darfur alongside those of the AU mission already there trying to halt the spiralling ... More >>
Working Together For African Development
Friday, 17 November 2006, 11:08 am | United Nations
Despite some “spectacular progress,” Africa as a whole is falling behind in the race to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that seek to eradicate a host of social ills, and developing countries, international donors and the United Nations ... More >>
Seaborne Trade Expands for Second Straight Year
Friday, 17 November 2006, 11:07 am | United Nations
Global seaborne trade, measured by tons of goods loaded, expanded by 3.8 per cent in 2005, the second consecutive year of increase and is expected to grow at roughly the same rate in 2006, according to the United Nations Review of Maritime Transport. More >>
Thousands Of Refugees Threatened By Floods
Friday, 17 November 2006, 11:05 am | United Nations
United Nations refugee agency workers are rushing to aid scores of thousands of Somalis uprooted by devastating floods in north-eastern Kenya, deploying earth-moving equipment to reinforce dykes holding back waters threatening a series of camps in the Dadaab ... More >>
Ugandan Rebels Pressed to Release Women, Children
Friday, 17 November 2006, 11:05 am | United Nations
Welcoming the ongoing peace talks between the Ugandan Government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which have fought a brutal civil war for 20 years, the Security Council today called on the rebel group to immediately release all women, children ... More >>
Preventing The Spread Of Hatred And Intolerance
Friday, 17 November 2006, 10:55 am | United Nations
In a message marking the International Day for Tolerance, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today stressed the key roles that education and a responsible media can play in preventing the spread of hatred. More >>
Migratory Species Face Risk From Climate Change
Friday, 17 November 2006, 10:53 am | United Nations
Climate change poses a dramatic threat to the world’s migratory species, altering or reducing habitats and forcing some species to change or even abandon long-standing migration routes, according to a report released today by the United Nations Environment ... More >>
Nepal And UN Start Refugee Census
Friday, 17 November 2006, 10:51 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency and the Nepalese Government have begun taking a census of an estimated 106,000 refugees in the country’s east, most Bhutanese and living there for more than a decade, in a joint exercise to obtain better information ... More >>
Journalists' Murders in Iraq And Mexico Condemned
Friday, 17 November 2006, 10:21 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations body mandated to protect press freedom today deplored the murder of yet one more Iraqi journalist, saying it was vital to bring an end to “the outrageous campaign of bloodshed” against media professionals in the ... More >>
