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Steps To Fight Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 4:34 pm | United Nations
With the emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) posing a serious threat to public health, particularly when associated with HIV, the United Nations health agency today called on countries to immediately strengthen their control of ... More >>
Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 4:32 pm | United Nations
Member States should follow the lead of the United Nations Human Rights Council and quickly adopt the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples without change, an independent UN expert has told the General Assembly. More >>
Nuclear Weapon States Must Cut Arsenals
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 4:30 pm | United Nations
Despite significant reductions in nuclear arsenals, what remains is ample enough to destroy the planet, the head of an independent commission on weapons of mass destruction has warned the General Assembly, calling on nuclear weapon States to reduce their ... More >>
UN Encouraged By Priority To Improve Myanmar Camps
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 4:26 pm | United Nations
The 140,000 refugees from Myanmar living in Thailand may soon be issued identity cards by Thai authorities that should permit them to move freely outside their camps to work legally, the United Nations refugee agency said today after a recent meeting ... More >>
Security Council Seat Still Undecided
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 3:39 pm | United Nations
A non-permanent seat on the Security Council remains up for grabs after the United Nations General Assembly held a second day of voting today in the contest to fill the place allocated to the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States. More >>
Violent Crisis That Shook Timor-Leste
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 3:37 pm | United Nations
Timor-Leste’s then interior and defence ministers and defence force chief acted illegally in transferring weapons to civilians during the violence that shook the small South-East Asian country early this year and should be held accountable, according ... More >>
SC Urges Eritrea to Withdraw from Ethiopia Zone
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 2:38 pm | United Nations
Expressing deep concern over reports that Eritrea has moved around 1,500 troops and 15 tanks into the Temporary Security Zone with Ethiopia, the United Nations Security Council today called for them to be withdrawn and urged both sides to exercise restraint ... More >>
New climate compact to combat global warming
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 11:00 am | United Nations
(Amsterdam, 17 October 2006) – According to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, the world urgently needs a long-term legal framework to provide security for carbon markets and investments necessary to combat climate change. More >>
UN Staff ‘Stand Up’ Against Poverty
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 10:58 am | United Nations
Several hundred United Nations staffers today added themselves to the millions of people around the world who have “stood up” in the last 24 hours to remind world leaders of a commitment to end extreme poverty – in the process setting a new Guinness ... More >>
Member States Resume Voting On Non-Permanent Seat
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 10:56 am | United Nations
A non-permanent seat on the Security Council remains up for grabs as the United Nations General Assembly resumed voting today in the contest to fill the place allocated to the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States. More >>
Eritrean Troops Move Into Security Zone
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 10:48 am | United Nations
Eritrean troops have moved some 1,500 troops and 14 tanks into the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) separating the East African country from Ethiopia in “a major breach” of the ceasefire that ended the two-year border war between the two from 1998-2000, ... More >>
Annan Deplores ‘Appalling’ Suicide Bombing
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 10:46 am | United Nations
Warning against a renewed civil war in Sri Lanka between the Government and Tamil separatists after the latest “appalling” suicide bombing of a convoy of military buses, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the sides to return ... More >>
Sudan: Annan Welcomes Peace Deal
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 10:44 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the weekend signing of a peace agreement between the Sudanese Government and rebels from the east of the vast African country, ending a conflict there separate to those that have afflicted ... More >>
New Loan To Help Senegal
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 10:40 am | United Nations
The United Nations agricultural development agency has helped assemble a $47 million aid package to benefit small farmers in Senegal, who are battling erratic rainfall, eroding quality and declining prices of their main products, groundnuts and cotton. More >>
Global Bank Of Plant And Food Samples
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 10:38 am | United Nations
Gene bank collections of the world’s key food and forage crops came under the control today of an international treaty established by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). More >>
Kidman Hears Chronicles Of Violence Against Women
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 10:01 am | United Nations
Visiting Kosovo on her inaugural trip as a Goodwill Ambassador with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Nicole Kidman heard first-hand about the impact of gender-based violence and war, and said today that women must be central to any ... More >>
Cartoonists Can Help Promote Peace: Annan
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 9:59 am | United Nations
Highlighting the important role of cartoons in forming public opinion, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on cartoonists to help society “promote peace and understanding,” while warning that their work can also encourage intolerance ... More >>
Patents Becoming More Popular Than Ever
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 9:56 am | United Nations
The number of applications for patents has virtually doubled in the past 20 years, a clear sign that the patent system is stimulating innovation and promoting economic activity around the world, the United Nations agency that protects ownership of intellectual ... More >>
Rising Marine Pollution Threat
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 9:53 am | United Nations
With close to 90 per cent of Asia’s sewage discharged without treatment the region’s marine environment is increasingly stressed, threatening economically vital coastal areas, including fishery industries, the United Nations’ environmental agency warned ... More >>
Action On Climate Change Particularly Urgent
Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 9:50 am | United Nations
With the growing number of ratifications of major environmental agreements suggesting that more countries are committed to addressing global ecological issues, the true test remains implementation and enforcement, especially with regard to greenhouse ... More >>
