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UN rushes In vital supplies in crises
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 12:32 am | United Nations
UN Food Agency Sets Up Global Rapid Response Hubs To Rush In Vital Supplies In Crises More >>
UN Shelter Agency Opens Office In Warsaw
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 12:06 am | United Nations
The United Nations agency charged with promoting socially and environmentally sustainable housing has opened an office in Warsaw, the Polish capital, to serve central and eastern Europe as the region deals with the urban poverty that has followed rising ... More >>
UN Sends Teams To Regions Struck By Typhoon
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 12:03 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies today sent three joint assessment missions to regions of Viet Nam struck by Typhoon Xangsane, which damaged nearly 230,000 houses and forced the evacuation of some 40,000 people. More >>
Positive Steps Within Reach Despite Setbacks
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 12:00 am | United Nations
Despite various setbacks this year in global security, including failures to comply with non-proliferation commitments, growing terrorist threats, and new dangers in the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula, the United Nations top disarmament official ... More >>
Monday Vote To Select New UN Secretary-General
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 3:44 pm | United Nations
The Security Council will hold a formal vote on Monday morning to select a new Secretary-General of the United Nations to recommend to the General Assembly for approval, the Council’s President for the month of October said today. More >>
UN Concerned After DPR Korea Plans To Test Nukes
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 2:29 pm | United Nations
Voicing concern about the stated intention of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to carry out a nuclear test in the future, Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned today that such a move would be counter-productive and worsen tensions ... More >>
Palestinian Refugees Trapped In Iraq
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 2:22 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency expressed fresh concern today about the plight of an estimated 20,000 Palestinian refugees in Iraq as deteriorating security forces an increasing number to try to flee the country. More >>
Annan Urges Russia & Georgia To Engage
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 2:21 pm | United Nations
Welcoming the peaceful resolution of tensions resulting from the recent arrests of Russian officers in Georgia, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on all sides to come together and “engage constructively to address existing problems.” More >>
Scientists Spotlight Lawless Fishing
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 11:11 am | United Nations
UNITED NATIONS (Tuesday, October 3) Actress Sigourney Weaver today joined a coalition representing more than 60 conservation organizations from around the world at United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York to call for new action to confront lawless ... More >>
Antarctic Ozone Hole Is Worst Ever Recorded
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 11:02 am | United Nations
This year’s hole in the Antarctic ozone layer is the worst on record, not only matching that of the year 2000 in surface area but registering the largest depletion ever measured of the naturally occurring gas that filters out cancer- and cataract-causing ... More >>
Concern At Mounting Number Of Afghans Displaced
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 11:00 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern about the increasing number of people internally displaced in southern Afghanistan as a result of hostilities between government forces, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and insurgents, ... More >>
Senior UN Envoy Begins Seven-Nation Tour
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 10:56 am | United Nations
Starting a seven-nation mission to promote peace and reconciliation in Somalia, the top United Nations envoy for the war-torn east African country today visited neighbouring Ethiopia to discuss the next round of peace talks between the rival Somali factions. More >>
Ahead Of Poll UN Joins In Policing DR Congo
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 10:54 am | United Nations
United Nations police today began joint patrols with national and European security forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) capital, Kinshasa, in a crackdown on armed groups and unauthorized weapons ahead of presidential elections ... More >>
Peacekeepers Lay Out Rules Of Engagement
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 10:52 am | United Nations
United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon have the authority to use force against hostile activity of any kind, whether in self-defence, to ensure their area of operations is not used for hostile activities or to resist attempts by force to prevent them ... More >>
Refugee Agency Closes Camp For Angolans In Zambia
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 10:49 am | United Nations
As its four-year programme of voluntary repatriation for Angolans who fled nearly three decades of civil war nears its end on 31 December, the United Nations refugee agency today began transferring some 15,000 people from the Nangweshi refugee camp ... More >>
Prize Money To Help UN Assist Displaced
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 10:47 am | United Nations
A Japanese optometrist who has won the world’s top award for assisting refugees has pledged to pour the prize money back into the work that led to the honour – working with the United Nations refugee agency to help displaced vision-impaired ... More >>
Sri Lanka: UN Agency Negotiates To Bring In Food
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 10:43 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) has been in constant negotiation with the Sri Lankan Government in a bid to bring in urgently needed food for more than 60,000 displaced people blockaded in areas controlled by rebel Tamil separatists. More >>
UN Sets Up Camps For Palestinian Children
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 10:38 am | United Nations
With 500,000 Palestinian children out of school due to a strike in the West Bank that has left most public schools closed, the United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) has set up youth clubs to provide extracurricular activities, safe indoor ... More >>
Tribal Fighting Worsens In Dafur Region
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 10:28 am | United Nations
Security is deteriorating further in southern areas of Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, the United Nations mission in the country said today, citing reports of tribal conflict. More >>
Security Council To Vote On New Sec-Gen Next Week
Tuesday, 3 October 2006, 5:14 pm | United Nations
The Security Council is likely to hold a formal vote early next week on the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Council’s president said today after the 15-member body held its fourth informal ballot on who will succeed Kofi Annan when he steps down ... More >>
