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Unicef Helps Vaccinate 320,000 Children
Sunday, 5 November 2006, 4:37 pm | United Nations
More than 320,000 young children throughout Lebanon will receive the first round of polio vaccinations in a United Nations-backed national immunization campaign starting today following the severe disruption of routine health services caused by this summer’s ... More >>
Deplorable Conditions Need A Political Solution
Sunday, 5 November 2006, 4:34 pm | United Nations
Unrelenting armed conflict, severe movement restrictions, widespread unemployment and unprecedented material hardship has made the Occupied Palestinian Territories synonymous with violations of international law, and a political solution is desperately ... More >>
UN Launches New Humanitarian Air Service
Saturday, 4 November 2006, 4:06 pm | United Nations
The United Nations today launched a new humanitarian air service in the Central African Republic (CAR) to help humanitarian agencies reach up to 1 million people affected by violence in the north of the country. More >>
Panel voices alarm at surge in opium cultivation
Saturday, 4 November 2006, 4:04 pm | United Nations
A United Nations-backed panel on narcotics control today expressed alarm at the rise in illicit opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, by far the world’s largest supplier, and called on its neighbours to crack down on the apparent smuggling of ... More >>
Compact For Iraqi Development Winds UpFirst Stage
Saturday, 4 November 2006, 4:01 pm | United Nations
The United Nations-backed International Compact with Iraq (ICI) held its final preparatory meeting in Kuwait today as it seeks to consolidate peace in the violence-torn country and pursue political, economic and social development over the next five years. More >>
Democracy Is The Best Way To Avoid Extremism
Saturday, 4 November 2006, 3:57 pm | United Nations
By allowing different views to be heard “a democracy that works is a conflict prevention instrument,” United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told a meeting in Qatar, the Sixth International Conference on New and Restored Democracies. More >>
Vote on final seat for Security Council suspended
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 10:22 am | United Nations
Today’s vote in the United Nations General Assembly on which country will fill the non-permanent seat on the Security Council for the Latin American and Caribbean region has been suspended until next Tuesday at the request of Guatemala and Venezuela, ... More >>
UN Disturbed by Israeli Over-Flights of Beirut
Wednesday, 1 November 2006, 12:47 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations envoy today expressed serious concern at continuing Israeli over-flights of Lebanon, especially intensive mock air raids over Beirut this morning, calling them a breach of the Security Council resolution 1701, which ended this summer’s ... More >>
Annan Hails Resumption of North Korea Nuke Talks
Wednesday, 1 November 2006, 12:45 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has repeatedly called on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to return to the six-party talks seeking to resolve the issue of its nuclear programme, today hailed news of their resumption and called ... More >>
Push To Reach Global Antipoverty Targets
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 3:18 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today praised hundreds of youth delegates gathered from around the world at United Nations Headquarters in New York to push for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which aim to raise global living standards. More >>
Call For UN Change to Recruit, Retain Staff
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 2:20 pm | United Nations
Highlighting the staff of the United Nations as its “principal asset,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for more resources from Member States to improve recruiting practices and streamline contracts so as to attract good candidates and keep them ... More >>
Bridging the ‘Scientific Capital Gap’ With Access
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 1:58 pm | United Nations
Scientists, researchers, and policy makers in 108 developing countries will soon receive access to one of the world’s largest collections of scholarly environmental science journals, thanks to a United Nations-backed on-line initiative launched today. More >>
Industrialized Emissions Show ‘Worrying Rise'
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 1:57 pm | United Nations
Emissions by industrialized countries of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming showed a “worrying” upward trend in the 2000–2004 period and state policies must be intensified to achieve further cuts, according to a United Nations report ... More >>
Afghanistan: UN Helps 15,000 Displaced Families
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 1:56 pm | United Nations
With fighting flaring in southern Afghanistan the United Nations, along with the Government and international donors, is assisting some 15,000 families displaced in three southern provinces. More >>
Low-Rate HIV Countries Warned Against Complacency
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 1:25 pm | United Nations
Asian and Pacific countries with low rates of HIV infection, far from being lulled into complacency, must improve surveillance and adequately fund national AIDS action plans, a United Nations-backed conference has concluded. More >>
Report points to rising emission trends
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 9:35 am | United Nations
(Bonn, 30 October 2006) – The secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) today released new data showing an upward trend in emissions of industrialized countries in the period 2000–2004. More >>
Pronk Will Serve Out Term As Top Envoy For Sudan
Sunday, 29 October 2006, 1:48 pm | United Nations
Jan Pronk will continue to serve as the top United Nations envoy for Sudan until the end of the year, when his contract is set to expire, despite the Sudanese Government’s demand for his removal, but he will return to Khartoum next month to organize a smooth ... More >>
Young Leaders From Around The World Gather
Sunday, 29 October 2006, 1:45 pm | United Nations
Hundreds of young people from all 192 Member States of the United Nations will gather at UN headquarters on Sunday for the landmark Global Youth Leadership Summit, which aims to get more people involved in promoting international development, including ... More >>
Sustainable Development Rests On Communication
Sunday, 29 October 2006, 1:43 pm | United Nations
Better communication – including more listening by donors – needs to be a more central part of developments efforts, the head the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization ( FAO ) has told a major conference on development and communications. More >>
Political Dialogue Key To Solving Strife
Sunday, 29 October 2006, 1:40 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan emphasized today that all sides in strife-torn Somalia must settle their differences through dialogue and not military action, as he repeated calls for the international community, and especially the country’s ... More >>
