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UN Human Rights Office To Work With New Envoy
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 11:19 am | United Nations
UN Human Rights Office In Nepal To Work Very Closely With World Body’s New Envoy More >>
Murder of Sri Lankan journalist
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 10:28 am | United Nations
28 August 2006 – As part of his ongoing campaign to highlight threats to press freedom worldwide, the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the murder of a journalist in ... More >>
Annan meets with Lebanese Prime Minister
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 10:17 am | United Nations
28 August 2006 – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today met with Lebanese leaders, offering his reassurances that the UN and the international community stood firmly behind efforts to implement the Security Council resolution that ended hostilities ... More >>
Kosovo: UN Official Condemns Grenade Attack
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 9:28 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations official in Kosovo has strongly condemned Saturday night's grenade attack in North Mitrovica, where nine civilians were injured when an explosive device was thrown at a local café bar. More >>
Kosovo: UN Official Condemns Grenade Attack
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 9:28 am | United Nations
A senior United Nations official in Kosovo has strongly condemned Saturday night's grenade attack in North Mitrovica, where nine civilians were injured when an explosive device was thrown at a local café bar. More >>
Delegates Finalise New DisabilitiesTreaty
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 9:26 am | United Nations
After five years of negotiations, countries meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York have agreed on a new treaty to protect the rights of persons with disabilities. More >>
Aid After Volcanic Eruption In Ecuador
Monday, 28 August 2006, 11:58 am | United Nations
Several United Nations agencies are stepping in to provide relief assistance to Ecuador after last week’s deadly volcanic eruption in the central part of the Andean country. More >>
Niger’s Government And UN Food Agency Team Up
Monday, 28 August 2006, 11:50 am | United Nations
Niger’s Government And UN Food Agency Team Up To Deliver Food To Most Vulnerable More >>
Annan To Visit Middle East Regarding Truce
Monday, 28 August 2006, 11:42 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan will head to the Middle East and Europe later this week in a trip designed to strengthen the situation in Lebanon and Israel following the formal cessation of hostilities there in the wake of the recent Security Council ... More >>
Kyrgyzstan’s Asylum System Further Eroded
Monday, 28 August 2006, 11:37 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency said it was gravely concerned over the fate of five Uzbek asylum-seekers who have “disappeared” in recent weeks from southern Kyrgyzstan, warning this latest incident shows an erosion of the Kyrgyz asylum system ... More >>
More Than 200,000 Sri Lankans Now Displaced - UN
Monday, 28 August 2006, 11:31 am | United Nations
After gaining greater access to areas of strife-torn Sri Lanka that had been cut off by recent fighting between Government forces and the separatist Tamil Tigers, the United Nations refugee agency says the number of people dislodged from their ... More >>
Australia Suffering From Hidden Housing Crisis
Monday, 28 August 2006, 11:21 am | United Nations
Australia is experiencing a serious and hidden national housing crisis, according to a United Nations human rights expert, who has called on the country’s Government to adopt a national housing policy based on human rights and urgently address the ... More >>
Talks On UN Disability Treaty Near End
Monday, 28 August 2006, 11:18 am | United Nations
The chair of the negotiations on a new United Nations convention to protect the rights of persons with disabilities said he was confident that a deal could be reached, despite several key differences between Member States as the talks entered their ... More >>
Top Cadre Of Civil Servants Needed To Rebuild - UN
Monday, 28 August 2006, 10:59 am | United Nations
After more than a dozen years of bloody conflict, the Liberian Government’s ability to rebuild the nation is seriously hampered by a lack of properly trained and motivated public servants, according to a report commissioned by the United Nations Development ... More >>
Gaza Operations Grinding to a Halt, Warns UNRWA
Monday, 28 August 2006, 9:56 am | United Nations
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) says a lack of access in and out of the Gaza Strip is forcing its operation there to come to a standstill, as shortages of food, fuel and construction supplies jeopardize every element of its relief effort. More >>
Europe to provide backbone of UN force in Lebanon
Saturday, 26 August 2006, 10:47 am | United Nations
25 August 2006 – European nations have agreed to provide over half the troops for the enhanced 15,000-strong United Nations force in Lebanon, Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today, saying he hoped some of these soldiers could be deployed ... More >>
Security Council To Proceed With Meeting On Dafur
Saturday, 26 August 2006, 10:39 am | United Nations
The Security Council will proceed with plans to meet on Monday to discuss the deteriorating situation in Sudan’s impoverished and strife-torn Darfur region, despite a request from the Sudanese Government to postpone the meeting, the Council’s President said ... More >>
Sudan: UN Program To Improve Judiciary
Saturday, 26 August 2006, 10:33 am | United Nations
The United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ), the World Bank, and Sudan’s Ministry of Finance have launched a programme designed to strengthen the judiciary in the strife-torn African country. More >>
UN refugee chief set to visit camp in Thailand
Saturday, 26 August 2006, 12:31 am | United Nations
25 August 2006 – The head of the United Nations refugee agency begins a four-day mission on Monday to Thailand, where he will visit one of the camps housing refugees from neighbouring Myanmar and emphasize resettlement as a durable remedy for these ... More >>
Expanded UN mission in Timor-Leste
Saturday, 26 August 2006, 12:21 am | United Nations
25 August 2006 – The Security Council today unanimously approved a resolution creating a new and expanded United Nations mission in Timor-Leste, citing ongoing threats to the stability of the South-East Asian country. More >>
