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Senior UN Official Stresses The Role Of Sport
Sunday, 15 October 2006, 2:42 pm | United Nations
The role of sport in helping attain United Nations global development goals, such as eradicating poverty and fighting disease, will be highlighted throughout this month’s UN Global Youth Leadership Summit that will bring together hundreds of ... More >>
Security Council Extends Terms Of Temporary Judges
Sunday, 15 October 2006, 2:40 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today extended the tenure of 18 short-term judges serving on the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the Rwandan genocide to help the court meet its target of trying all defendants by the end of 2008. More >>
Team Of Experts For Timor-Leste Elections
Sunday, 15 October 2006, 2:37 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appointed a team of high-level experts to verify next year’s presidential and parliamentary elections in Timor-Leste, part of the world body’s continuing assistance to the tiny South East Asian nation ... More >>
Agency Increasingly Concerned At Surging Exodus
Sunday, 15 October 2006, 2:33 pm | United Nations
With tens of thousands of Iraqis fleeing their homes every month because of continuing sectarian violence, the United Nations refugee agency today voiced growing concern over the “rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation” facing hundreds of thousands ... More >>
Funding Shortfall Forces End Of Feeding Programme
Sunday, 15 October 2006, 2:30 pm | United Nations
New York, Oct 13 2006 11:00AM A huge shortfall in funding is forcing the United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) to wind down all its operations to feed hundreds of thousands of Angolans by the end of the year, after three decades of direct involvement ... More >>
Chechens And Azeris Faced Food Aid Cutoff
Friday, 13 October 2006, 5:04 pm | United Nations
Roughly 250,000 Chechens face a complete cut off of international food aid and 144,000 Azerbaijanis drastic food aid reduction by the end of the month unless donors come up with more money, a United Nations food expert warned today. More >>
Darfur: UN Humanitarian Snapshot Shows Insecurity
Friday, 13 October 2006, 4:12 pm | United Nations
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region enjoyed greater access to aid workers during September but the number of attacks and security incidents there also jumped in the same month, according to the latest snapshot by ... More >>
Announcement Of New UN Secretary-General Soon
Friday, 13 October 2006, 11:34 am | United Nations
Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon of the Republic of Korea is likely to be elected by acclamation as next Secretary-General of the United Nations when the General Assembly meets at 3 p.m. tomorrow to formally appoint the successor to Kofi Annan, who steps ... More >>
New UN Sec-Gen Appointment Expected Tomorrow
Friday, 13 October 2006, 11:28 am | United Nations
Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon of the Republic of Korea is likely to be elected by acclamation as next Secretary-General of the United Nations when the General Assembly meets at 3 p.m. tomorrow to formally appoint the successor to Kofi Annan, who steps ... More >>
Disaster Relief Fund Is Example Of Successful
Friday, 13 October 2006, 11:26 am | United Nations
The landmark United Nations fund set up to jump-start relief operations for natural and man-made disasters and save thousands of lives that would otherwise be lost to delay offers “living proof” that the world body can reform, the UN’s top humanitarian ... More >>
Council Vote On Resolution Could Come Tomorrow
Friday, 13 October 2006, 11:24 am | United Nations
After intensive negotiations, the United Nations Security Council could vote as early as tomorrow on a United States resolution calling for action against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) over its reported nuclear test, although the ... More >>
Israeli Obstacles To Free Movement Mount
Friday, 13 October 2006, 11:21 am | United Nations
Not only has there not been any significant improvement in Palestinian movement in recent months but the number of Israeli checkpoints and other obstacles has actually increased, hindering access to essential services, according to the latest United ... More >>
Maternal Mortality The Focus Of Forum
Friday, 13 October 2006, 10:48 am | United Nations
Improving maternal health and reducing child mortality were high on the agenda as more than 100 experts from across South Asia gathered today in the Nepalese capital for the start of a two-day forum organized by the United Nations and other groups ... More >>
Crisis Centre Launched To Combat Bird Flu
Friday, 13 October 2006, 10:45 am | United Nations
New UN Crisis Centre Launched To Combat Spread Of Bird Flu And Other Animal Diseases More >>
Timor-Leste: Restoring Public Security
Friday, 13 October 2006, 10:43 am | United Nations
With over 50,000 internally displaced people still living in makeshift camps in and around Timor-Leste’s capital, continued low level fighting in the streets and elections due next year, United Nations officials today said that restoring public security ... More >>
Condemnation Of Journalists' murder In Afghanistan
Friday, 13 October 2006, 10:40 am | United Nations
Calling for greater efforts to protect the safety of the media in Afghanistan, the head of the United Nations body mandated to defend freedom of the press today added his voice to the condemnation of the murder of two German journalists in the strife-torn ... More >>
25,000 Congolese Home From Burundi
Friday, 13 October 2006, 10:29 am | United Nations
A landmark United Nations convoy has brought the first group of nearly 25,000 Congolese refugees back home from Burundi in another sign of the gradual return to normalcy in the war-torn country. More >>
UNHCR Invstigates return of refugees
Friday, 13 October 2006, 10:26 am | United Nations
UNHCR Agrees To Look At New Ways To Encourage Afghani Refugees To Return From Iran More >>
Donors Should Consider ‘Poor-Centric’ Approach
Friday, 13 October 2006, 10:19 am | United Nations
The international community should consider undertaking development differently by first asking the poor what they really want rather than the more traditional “supply-driven” approach, the United Nations’ top envoy in Liberia said today. More >>
UN Relief Official To Visit Eritrea
Friday, 13 October 2006, 10:17 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations relief official arrives in Eritrea tomorrow for a six-day visit to assess the food situation in the East African country, where recent rains should mitigate the impact of drought while the “no-war-no-peace” status of the ... More >>
