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Early Childhood Education Critical First Step
Saturday, 28 October 2006, 5:27 pm | United Nations
Despite well-documented, long-term benefits, early childhood education remains the “forgotten link” in education policy around the globe, with half of the world’s countries having no early childhood policy and providing woefully inadequate financing ... More >>
US Military Courts Breach International Obligation
Saturday, 28 October 2006, 5:23 pm | United Nations
The Military Commissions Act (MCA) signed into law by President George Bush earlier this month violates the international obligations of the United States under human rights laws in several areas, including the right to challenge detention and to see ... More >>
Somali Refugee Influx Into Kenya Decreases
Saturday, 28 October 2006, 5:18 pm | United Nations
The arrival rate of Somalis pouring into neighbouring Kenya to escape factional fighting has dropped to about 300 people a day from a high of over 1,000 three weeks ago, the United Nations refugee agency said today, citing border officials. More >>
Pro-Poor Mortgages Will Soon Be Needed
Saturday, 28 October 2006, 5:16 pm | United Nations
Mortgages that allow poor people to buy housing will soon be needed to curb the worldwide growth of slums and improve living standards, the head of the United Nations agency charged with promoting socially and environmentally sustainable housing has warned, ... More >>
Counter-Terrorism Should Not Undermine Rights
Saturday, 28 October 2006, 5:13 pm | United Nations
Countries need to pay “increased attention” to ensuring that critical basic freedoms – of peaceful assembly and of association – are not unduly compromised in the fight against terrorism and that any restrictive measures be “necessary, ... More >>
Work Needed To Strengthen Peace And Stability
Saturday, 28 October 2006, 5:11 pm | United Nations
Liberia: Top UN Envoy Calls On Officers To Work Harder To Strengthen Peace And Stability More >>
Top UN Court Is Still Short Of Vital Law Clerks
Saturday, 28 October 2006, 5:08 pm | United Nations
Sixty years after the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) was established, the United Nations’ top tribunal still suffers from a shortage of law clerks to assist its 15 sitting judges, who today handle a growing docket of fact-intensive cases, ... More >>
Food And Fuel Shortages Hit After Renewed Fighting
Saturday, 28 October 2006, 5:04 pm | United Nations
The 600,000 inhabitants of Sri Lanka’s Jaffna Peninsula, already buffeted by decades of conflict, are now facing food and fuel shortages as a result of a recent upsurge in fighting between Tamil separatists and Government forces, with many businesses ... More >>
UN Appeals For Calm Ahead Of Congo Elections
Friday, 27 October 2006, 10:22 am | United Nations
Amid tension ahead of Sunday’s presidential elections, the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has called on the two candidates to maintain the unity of the country both before and after the polls and not repeat ... More >>
Turkey Makes Progress On Detention Procedures
Friday, 27 October 2006, 10:19 am | United Nations
Despite strengthened safeguards against arbitrary detention in Turkey’s criminal justice system stemming from new laws enacted last year, the situation of terrorist suspects who have been detained for up to 13 years without being found guilty is ... More >>
UN Urges Action On Serious Human Rights Concerns
Friday, 27 October 2006, 10:17 am | United Nations
United Nations experts urged the international community to act quickly to address serious and deteriorating human rights situations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Sudan, Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and ... More >>
Global Vigilance Is Needed To Counter Bird Flu
Friday, 27 October 2006, 10:14 am | United Nations
While the deadly bird flu virus has not spread as widely as feared in Africa, vigilance is still needed across the world to counter its advance and deal with its impact on humans, the United Nations coordinator for the disease said today, expressing ... More >>
‘Credit’ System Launched To Curb Global Warming
Friday, 27 October 2006, 10:10 am | United Nations
Intensifying its efforts to curb the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, the United Nations today launched a new mechanism to generate significant reductions in such emissions in central and eastern European transition economies through a ... More >>
Millions Of Southern Africans In Food Crisis
Friday, 27 October 2006, 10:08 am | United Nations
A massive $60-million funding shortfall is forcing food aid cuts to as many as 4.3 million people across southern Africa, particularly HIV/AIDS patients, who remain chronically vulnerable despite this year’s reportedly good harvests, the United ... More >>
Annan's Final UN Day Message
Friday, 27 October 2006, 10:04 am | United Nations
In his final message for United Nations Day as Secretary-General, Kofi Annan warned today that much still needs to be done in the common struggle for development, security and human rights, and he urged world leaders to work with his successor, Ban Ki-moon, ... More >>
Annan Calls For Extension Of UN Mission
Friday, 27 October 2006, 10:00 am | United Nations
Painting a grim picture of the security and human rights situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) and warning that it threatens regional stability, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for the mandate of the UN mission in the ... More >>
Corruption - Governments Must Be Held To Account
Friday, 27 October 2006, 9:57 am | United Nations
New York, Oct 23 2006 3:00PM Addressing the newly formed International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities, the United Nations top crime fighter has urged the world’s anti-corruption officials to hold their governments to account for the ... More >>
UN Scrutinises Impact Of Deadly Toxic Waste
Friday, 27 October 2006, 9:53 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies and the Côte d’Ivoire Government are currently preparing a study on the possible effects on the food chain of the dumping of toxic chemical waste around the country’s largest city, Abidjan, which has killed 12 people and ... More >>
Eritrean Fatally Shot After Entering UN Post
Friday, 27 October 2006, 9:50 am | United Nations
Two Eritreans illegally entered a post of the United Nations peacekeeping force overseeing the ceasefire along the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia over the weekend, and one of them was fatally shot when a sentry fired to scare off the assailants, the ... More >>
New Flow Of Refugees Returning From DR Congo
Friday, 27 October 2006, 9:44 am | United Nations
Growing numbers from among the thousands of Burundians who fled years of ethnic conflict in the small Central African country are returning home from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following last month’s signing of a peace agreement ... More >>
