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Maldives: Reforms Must Allow Freedom of Religion
Monday, 14 August 2006, 10:32 am | United Nations
A United Nations expert just back from a visit to the Maldives today hailed the country’s efforts at human rights reform but stressed that these must respect religious freedom. More >>
Cote D'Ivoire: Call to Stay in Peace Process
Monday, 14 August 2006, 10:31 am | United Nations
Expressing deep concern about recent statements made by some political leaders in Côte d’Ivoire which could set back the peace process, the United Nations mission in the country today called for all parties to overcome their differences through ... More >>
Netherlands Gives 20 Million Euros to Fight AIDS
Monday, 14 August 2006, 10:29 am | United Nations
With injecting drug use accounting for up to 80 per cent of HIV infections in some regions of Russia and Eastern Europe, the United Nations agency charged with combating drugs and crime today received 20 million euros from the Netherlands to fight the ... More >>
Dutch Diplomat Head of Climate Change Convention
Monday, 14 August 2006, 10:28 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced the appointment of a Dutch climate expert to lead the United Nations body responsible for monitoring an international climate change treaty. Yvo de Boer will become the new Executive Secretary of the United ... More >>
Talks on Disabilities Rights Treaty to Resume
Monday, 14 August 2006, 10:27 am | United Nations
Negotiators from around the world will convene at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday to resume talks aimed at completing a new convention that would protect the rights of persons with disabilities. More >>
Hygiene Campaign In Quake Zone Camps
Monday, 14 August 2006, 10:27 am | United Nations
In a bid to help prevent the spread of disease, the lead United Nations agency managing camps that continue to house thousands of refugees from last October’s deadly earthquake in Pakistan has just completed a campaign to promote better hygiene. More >>
Nigeria Withdraws Troops From Border Area
Sunday, 13 August 2006, 3:10 pm | United Nations
Nigeria has completed withdrawing its troops from the Bakassi Peninsula, beginning the next phase in the implementation of the pact signed under United Nations auspices in June that ensures the border area’s peaceful transfer to Cameroon. More >>
Un Rights Council Condemns ‘Israeli Violations’
Sunday, 13 August 2006, 3:07 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution today condemning “grave Israeli violations of human rights” in Lebanon, called for all parties to respect the rules of humanitarian law, and decided to immediately send a high-level team ... More >>
Un Court To Hear Immunity Of Witnesses Dispute
Sunday, 13 August 2006, 2:02 pm | United Nations
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, will hear a case between France and Djibouti over whether high-level figures in Djibouti, including its Head of State, can be summoned as witnesses as part of ... More >>
Israeli Rounds Hit UN Post
Sunday, 13 August 2006, 1:57 pm | United Nations
One day after the Security Council voted unanimously for a cessation of hostilities in Lebanon, fighting continued, and one blue helmet was wounded when Israeli fire hit a United Nations position in the south. More >>
Annan Praises Middle East Resolution
Sunday, 13 August 2006, 1:55 pm | United Nations
Welcoming tonight's Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Middle East, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he believed it could serve as a base to reach a sustainable and lasting ceasefire agreement in ... More >>
Annan Offers Support To India After Deadly Floods
Sunday, 13 August 2006, 1:49 pm | United Nations
Expressing deep sadness over the deadly floods in India, which have killed over 160 people and affected more than 6 million, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today the world body was ready to offer whatever assistance was needed to help ... More >>
Need For Inquiry Into Attacks On Civilians
Saturday, 12 August 2006, 1:53 pm | United Nations
There is a “clear and urgent need” to investigate attacks against civilians in Lebanon and northern Israel, the top United Nations rights official stressed at a special session of the Human Rights Council today, emphasizing that the crisis demands ... More >>
Timor-Leste: UN Commissioners Probing Violence
Saturday, 12 August 2006, 1:49 pm | United Nations
Commission of Inquiry for Timor-Leste today completed the first of two visits aimed at looking into the violence that exploded in the country earlier this year, causing dozens of deaths and forcing 15 per cent of the country’s entire population to ... More >>
Unanimous Vote For An End To Hostilities
Saturday, 12 August 2006, 1:28 pm | United Nations
The Security Council voted tonight to halt the deadly conflict that has engulfed Lebanon and northern Israel for the past month, passing a resolution that calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities followed by the deployment of Lebanese troops ... More >>
Annan Hopeful Security Council Can Pass Resolution
Saturday, 12 August 2006, 1:26 pm | United Nations
Observing that every day Security Council discussions go on, “the death, the killings and the destruction continues” in the Middle East, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said this morning that he was hopeful the Council can vote on a resolution ... More >>
Fears for Safety of Repatriated Uzbek Refugees
Thursday, 10 August 2006, 5:03 pm | United Nations
Expressing shock at Kyrgyzstan’s extradition of four Uzbek refugees and one asylum seeker back to Uzbekistan, the United Nations refugee agency said today it feared for their safety, stressed that the forced return violated the 1951 Refugee Convention ... More >>
UNHRC Special Session on Friday to Discuss Lebanon
Thursday, 10 August 2006, 5:02 pm | United Nations
With a quarter of Lebanon’s population forced to flee their homes and violence claiming lives daily in the conflict between Hizbollah and Israel, the United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session on Friday to discuss the worsening ... More >>
Agencies Rush Aid to Lebanese, Others in Syria
Thursday, 10 August 2006, 5:01 pm | United Nations
Seeking to help ease the plight of thousands of civilians who have fled fighting in Lebanon for Syria, United Nations agencies are rushing aid to the country as part of the overall effort to assist civilians caught in the crossfire of the Middle East ... More >>
Afghanistan: Number of Attacks on Schools Leaps
Thursday, 10 August 2006, 5:00 pm | United Nations
The number of attacks by terrorist groups against Afghan schools during the first half of this year was almost three times the level for the whole of 2005, prompting a United Nations expert on the right to education to express his “profound condemnation” ... More >>
