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UN Human Rights Expert Laments Food Aid Cuts
Friday, 27 October 2006, 9:41 am | United Nations
The reluctance of donors to provide aid to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) following its reported nuclear test is causing rising hunger in the country and exacerbating the suffering of groups already facing a grim human rights ... More >>
UN Helps Guinea-Bissau Combat Childhood HIV/AIDS
Friday, 27 October 2006, 9:38 am | United Nations
All children in Guinea-Bissau with HIV/AIDS will now have access to anti-retroviral medicines, thanks to a United Nations-backed treatment campaign in the small West African country where more than 1,500 children are infected each year. More >>
Lebanon - Moving From Relief To Recovery
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 4:48 pm | United Nations
United Nations humanitarian agencies have now wrapped up their emergency relief operations in Lebanon following this summer’s war between Israel and Hizbollah and are moving on to the recovery and reconstruction phase, a spokesman announced in New York today. More >>
‘Global Media Compact’ Launched
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 4:45 pm | United Nations
In an effort to create greater public awareness of the world's 50 poorest nations, the United Nations today launched the 'Global Media Compact' to encourage international and local media companies to increase their coverage of developmental issues in vulnerable ... More >>
Final Seat On Security Council Remains Undecided
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 11:28 am | United Nations
The United Nations General Assembly today remained deadlocked after a fourth day of voting in the contest to fill a non-permanent seat on the Security Council for the Latin American and Caribbean region, with Guatemala maintaining its lead over ... More >>
Swiss Singer Joins UN Campaign Against Hunger
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 10:59 am | United Nations
Swiss winner of some 10 ‘World Music Awards’ DJ BOBO today joined Brazilian football superstar Ronaldinho, Cape-Verdian singer Cesaria Evora and world record breaking marathon runner Paul Tergat, among others, as a National Ambassador Against Hunger ... More >>
UN Protests Over Sudanese Government’s Decision
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 10:57 am | United Nations
The United Nations has protested to the Sudanese Government over its decision to ask for the removal of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Representative in the country Jan Pronk, a UN spokesman said today. More >>
Top UN Political Officer Starts Asia Trip
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 10:55 am | United Nations
Strengthening cooperation between the United Nations and China, Japan and the Republic of Korea in peacebuilding and conflict prevention, along with developments in Asia since the reported nuclear test by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), ... More >>
UN Calls On Liberia To Curb Conflict Diamonds
Sunday, 22 October 2006, 12:14 am | United Nations
The United Nations today applauded further progress in Liberia’s forestry sector but said more needs to be done to reform the diamond mining industry before the world body will lift sanctions against the country’s export of rough diamonds, regarded ... More >>
Calm Response To Violence In Timor-Leste Praised
Sunday, 22 October 2006, 12:11 am | United Nations
Despite fears of violence after the release this week of a United Nations report into recent strife in Timor-Leste, the response so far has been “overwhelmingly positive” and calm in the tiny nation where deadly conflict attributed to differences ... More >>
UNICEF Wins Spanish Prize
Sunday, 22 October 2006, 12:08 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today accepted a prestigious Spanish award on behalf of the UN agency for its work in Africa and its efforts to improve the health and living conditions of millions of children around the world. More >>
Nations Urged To Join Body On Chemical Weapons
Sunday, 22 October 2006, 12:05 am | United Nations
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and key countries in the Middle East – Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and Syria – form a “hard core” of nations that are resisting any moves towards joining the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical ... More >>
Concern At Violence Ahead Of Elections
Saturday, 21 October 2006, 2:37 pm | United Nations
A United Nations-backed group supporting the political transition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has voiced its “deep concern” over violent incidents that marred the first week of campaigning in the second round of presidential elections ... More >>
50,000 Indonesian Families Still Lack Shelter
Saturday, 21 October 2006, 2:35 pm | United Nations
As many as 50,000 families who lost their homes in the deadly earthquake that rocked Indonesia’s island of Java in May are still without sufficient shelter for the approaching rainy season, the main United Nations humanitarian office warned today, ... More >>
Surge In People Smuggling From Somalia To Yemen
Saturday, 21 October 2006, 1:13 pm | United Nations
Despite a crackdown in Somalia's Puntland region, hundreds of Somalis, Ethiopians and Sudanese are still resorting to smugglers’ boats to make the perilous and sometimes fatal journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, with the total nearing 6,000 in the ... More >>
Deadly Government Bombing In Darfur
Saturday, 21 October 2006, 1:11 pm | United Nations
Amid increasing insecurity in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, the United Nations mission in the country has received reports that a Government aircraft bombed an area in North Darfur, killing an eight-year-old boy, and that two aid workers were ... More >>
Agency Voices New Alarm For Palestinians In Iraq
Saturday, 21 October 2006, 1:05 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today called on the Iraqi Government and United States-led coalition forces to provide necessary protection for 20,000 Palestinians in the war-torn country after a mortar attack last night killed four Palestinians, ... More >>
Eritrean-Ethiopian Border Zone Is Volatile
Saturday, 21 October 2006, 1:03 pm | United Nations
The situation inside the buffer zone along the disputed border between Eritrea and Ethiopia has become volatile after Eritrea moved 1,500 troops and 14 tanks into the area, the United Nations peacekeeping mission to the two countries reported today. More >>
Excessive Border Delays Hurt Truck Drivers
Saturday, 21 October 2006, 12:51 am | United Nations
Excessive border delays, inefficient or corrupt border officials and drivers’ vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS put the international road transport sector at risk and without worldwide governmental action the problems will intensify, ... More >>
Agency Suspends Repatriation Convoys To Sudan
Saturday, 21 October 2006, 12:48 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today temporarily suspended return convoys from northern Uganda to southern Sudan following reports yesterday that unknown gunmen killed at least 38 civilians in a string of attacks in the same area. More >>
