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UN Officials Urge Backing For Child Violence Study
Friday, 13 October 2006, 10:14 am | United Nations
Highlighting the widespread incidence of violence against children in all parts of the world, top United Nations officials today stressed the importance of following-up on Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s in-depth study of the problem, by acting on its ... More >>
Darfur Arms Embargo Breached By All Sides
Friday, 13 October 2006, 10:10 am | United Nations
The arms embargo in Darfur is being blatantly violated by all parties operating in the war-torn Sudanese region, including Government forces, allied Janjaweed militias, rebel groups and insurgents from neighbouring Chad, according to the latest report ... More >>
Discussions On Resolution Over Nuclear Test
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 4:37 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today continued discussions at experts’ level over what action to take against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) after its reported nuclear test, with the issue of sanctions and their enforcement ... More >>
Lebanon: Unexploded Ordnance Problem
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 3:07 pm | United Nations
United Nations de-mining officials, already worried by up to 1 million pieces of unexploded ordnance in southern Lebanon left over from Israel’s 34-day war with Hizbollah, voiced concern today that the problem could worsen as winter weather embeds ... More >>
Developing Nations Need Policy Flexibility
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 2:09 pm | United Nations
The world’s poorer countries must be allowed room for policy manoeuvre as they try to improve their economic performance, the United Nations agency that seeks to integrate developing nations into the global economy said today as it reviewed its ... More >>
UN Aid Official Calls For Urgent Help In Iraq
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 10:54 am | United Nations
Escalating Violence In Iraq Prompts UN Aid Official To Call For Urgent Help From Leaders More >>
Test And Glasses Could Dramatically Improve Lives
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 10:21 am | United Nations
With millions of children losing educational opportunities and countless adults excluded from productive working lives due to easily corrected sight problems, the United Nations health agency today called for urgent action to improve access to affordable ... More >>
UN Stresses Education Over Natural Disasters
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 10:18 am | United Nations
With natural disasters claiming more than 600,000 lives and affecting more than 2.4 billion people over the last decade, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for educating schoolchildren on ways to prepare for such hazards and ... More >>
Locust Upsurge Could Threaten Africa
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 10:11 am | United Nations
Two years after the worst locust infestation to hit North and West Africa in 15 years, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today warned the region to raise its level of alert against a possible new invasion of the crop-devouring ... More >>
Unicef Voices Concern Over Unexploded Bombs
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 10:07 am | United Nations
Lebanese children preparing to go back to school next week face “a terrible situation” from up to 1 million pieces of unexploded ordnance left over from Israel’s 34-day war with Hizbollah this summer, the United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) said ... More >>
Unicef Helps Thailand With Preventive Education
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 10:05 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) is helping Thailand with a nationwide school-based campaign to protect children and their families from the spread of bird flu and the threat of its mutation into a deadly human pandemic. More >>
Somalia Enduring Twin Refugee Crises, Warns Agency
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 4:22 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency warned today of dual crises emerging in Somalia, with several thousand people joining the flood across the border into Kenya to escape fighting in the south and the deportation of as many as 1,800 others from the northeast ... More >>
Year After Hurricane, Guatemalans Still Need Help
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 1:57 pm | United Nations
Thousands of Guatemalans still depend on emergency food aid, one year after Hurricane Stan killed more than 1,500 people and devastated communities and landscapes across Central America, the United Nations’ humanitarian arm said today. More >>
UN Forces Patrol Liberian-Côte D’Ivoire Border
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 1:56 pm | United Nations
United Nations peacekeeping forces in Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia are carrying out a second week-long round of mixed patrols to monitor the movements of combatants and weapons along the border between the two West African countries, which have both ... More >>
UN Reaches Millions More With Video Game
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 1:56 pm | United Nations
The world’s first humanitarian video game – a United Nations-produced virtual world of planes launching food airdrops over crisis zones and emergency trucks struggling up treacherous roads under rebel threat with emergency supplies to combat hunger ... More >>
UNICEF Helps Villagers in Comoros to Protect Water
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 1:55 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has been working with more than 100 villages on the Indian Ocean island of Grand Comore to ensure continued access to safe, clean water following yet another eruption of a notoriously active volcano. More >>
Women Make Progress in UN Peace and Security
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 1:53 pm | United Nations
New York, Oct 10 2006 2:00PM Significant progress has been made to include more women in peace and security efforts throughout the United Nations system but “much more can and should be done at all levels,” both at Headquarters and in the field, Secretary-General ... More >>
Audio: Society Concerned With Nth Korea Nuke Test
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 11:49 am | United Nations
UN Audio: (click here to listen) Civil Society Reacts to Reported North Korean Nuclear Test More >>
Security Council Discusses Nth Korea Nuke Strategy
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 11:45 am | United Nations
United Nations Security Council members today continued discussions over what action to take against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) after its reported nuclear test, with the issue of possible sanctions and their enforcement among the ... More >>
DPR Korea: SC Members Discuss Action on Test
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 9:33 am | United Nations
Mr. Annan said the reported test “violates international norms of disarmament and non-proliferation, as well as the current international moratorium on nuclear testing… it aggravates regional tensions in and around the Korean Peninsula, and jeopardizes ... More >>
