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UN Joins With Asia for Enviro Initiative
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 2:58 pm | United Nations
Reduce, reuse and recycle are the watchwords of a new initiative announced today by the United Nations and key Asian institutions aimed at promoting the sustainable use of natural resources and environmental efficiency. More >>
Project Makes Shrimp Trawling More Environmental
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 2:57 pm | United Nations
A pioneering project is reducing the environmental damage from shrimp trawling, cutting the unwanted catch of young fish, turtles and other “by-catch” by as much as 70 per cent in some countries, the UN Environment Programme announced today. More >>
Israeli Attacks Deplored, Hizbollah Condemned
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 12:18 am | United Nations
With more than a thousand people killed in almost a month of fighting, the top United Nations aid official in Lebanon today deplored Israeli bombardment of civilian infrastructure, condemned Hizbollah’s rocket attacks and called on all sides to adhere to their ... More >>
UN Force Facilitates Lebanon Relief Aid Deliveries
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 12:17 am | United Nations
With high-intensity exchanges of fire continuing throughout southern Lebanon, the United Nations Interim Force in the country (UNIFIL) today reported that it is working to restore a humanitarian supply route used for delivering aid to the population ... More >>
Rights Experts Postpone Lebanon Visit for Security
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 12:16 am | United Nations
Four independent United Nations human rights experts have announced that the security situation in the Middle East has forced them to postpone a visit planned for today to Lebanon. More >>
Vehicle Just Ahead Of UN Aid Convoy Hit
Monday, 7 August 2006, 1:32 pm | United Nations
A vehicle just ahead of a United Nations humanitarian aid convoy in Lebanon was hit today during an air strike by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported. More >>
Lebanon: 3 Troops Lightly Wounded in Mortar Fire
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:40 am | United Nations
Three members of the Chinese contingent serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were lightly wounded today when a mortar round from the Hizbollah side impacted inside their headquarters, according to the Force's preliminary reports. More >>
Amid Fighting in Lebanon, UN Continues Relief
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:39 am | United Nations
As fighting raged today in Lebanon, the United Nations continued its efforts to help the beleaguered people of the country, where the Government estimates that one fourth of the population has been uprooted. More >>
Security Council on Standby for Lebanon Text
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:39 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council could convene a meeting at any time – including this weekend – if the text of a resolution on Lebanon is presented by diplomats now discussing the matter with the parties, the president of the 15-member body said ... More >>
Lebanon Emergency Aid Supplies Cut Off by Shelling
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:38 am | United Nations
Getting emergency United Nations humanitarian aid to the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese displaced by the worsening conflict became even harder today after the UN said that Israeli shelling had severed the vital supply route between Syria and Beirut, ... More >>
More Than 18,000 Troops Would Be Needed for Darfur
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:36 am | United Nations
A United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur may need as many as 18,600 troops to ensure that all sides in the war-ravaged Sudanese region comply with the recently signed peace agreement, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in his latest report on ... More >>
Timor-Leste: Call for Steps to Ensure Justice
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:34 am | United Nations
Stressing that there can be no impunity for the serious human rights violations committed in Timor-Leste following its vote for independence in 1999, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended the establishment of a new United Nations programme of international ... More >>
S Lebanon Continues to Endure Intense Fighting
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:33 am | United Nations
More than three weeks after hostilities began, Hizbollah and the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) are still exchanging heavy fire in southern Lebanon with little sign of any abatement, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reported today. More >>
Tensions as Palestinians Flee Attacks
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:32 am | United Nations
Israeli troops today kept up their operations around Gaza’s international airport, forcing Palestinians to flee to safety, the United Nations said, while also highlighting Palestinian rocket attacks into Israel and ongoing tensions in the West Bank, which ... More >>
SG Asks Council to Extend UN Iraq Mission One Year
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:30 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended that the Security Council extend the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) for another year to help the country in the face of formidable political, security and economic challenges. More >>
More Afghans Return Home Despite Concerns
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:29 am | United Nations
More than 1,000 Afghan refugees, some of whom have lived in camps in Pakistan for more than 25 years, went home this week in one of the year’s biggest return convoys organized by the United Nations refugee agency under its voluntary repatriation programme, ... More >>
UNESCO Chief Condemns Murder of Russian Journalist
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:29 am | United Nations
For the second time in as many days, the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has condemned the killing of a journalist, this time a Russian investigative reporter. More >>
Thousands More Flee Fighting in Sri Lanka
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:28 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today called deep concern about the plight of civilians in Sri Lanka caught in the crossfire between the government forces and fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). More >>
Attacks on Afghan Schools Could Erode Progress
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:27 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today that schools in Afghanistan are the targets of increasingly dramatic attacks and called on all parties not to target any students, teachers or educational institutions. More >>
Urgent Call for End to Middle East Violence
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:25 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has called for an urgent end to the spiraling Middle East violence, emphasizing that women should be part of a political settlement. More >>
