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Volatile Security in Darfur Limits Access to Needy
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 10:42 am | United Nations
United Nations humanitarian staff in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region cannot reach at least one in five of those in need of assistance because of the ongoing violence and insecurity there, the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reported today. More >>
Annan Heads to Rome in Search of Lebanon Measures
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 10:20 am | United Nations
With violence continuing to tear through Lebanon for a twelfth day, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan leaves for Rome today for an international meeting aimed at resolving the crisis, expressing hope that concrete measures will emerge from ... More >>
Protection of Children in War Must Be Strengthened
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 10:19 am | United Nations
With over 250,000 boys currently exploited as child soldiers and tens of thousands of girls subject to sexual violence, it was time for the United Nations Security Council to step up its efforts to protect such children by acting against their violators, ... More >>
Rights Experts Urge Parties To Protect Civilians
Sunday, 23 July 2006, 7:49 pm | United Nations
Responding to the recent explosion of violence in the Middle East, a number of United Nations human rights experts have joined their voices to Secretary-General Kofi Annan's call for an immediate cessation of hostilities, urging the parties to respect their ... More >>
As Deaths In Lebanon Rise Relief Chief Heads In
Sunday, 23 July 2006, 7:14 pm | United Nations
As the death toll in Lebanon surpassed 350, including large numbers of children, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator headed to the country as part of his bid to facilitate 'humanitarian corridors' to allow relief aid to reach besieged ... More >>
US & UN Share Broad Long-Range Objectives On ME
Sunday, 23 July 2006, 11:38 am | United Nations
Following meetings with the United States Secretary of State, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told a US television audience that Washington and the world body share the same long-term objectives in responding to the Middle East crisis. More >>
UN Emergency Chief To Travel To Lebanon
Saturday, 22 July 2006, 8:04 pm | United Nations
Painting a grim picture of the worsening humanitarian situation in the Middle East, the top United Nations emergency relief coordinator announced he will fly to Lebanon today, repeated calls for a cessation of hostilities and again urged all sides to ... More >>
UN Force In South Lebanon Maintains Activities
Saturday, 22 July 2006, 8:02 pm | United Nations
The United Nations force that monitors the line of withdrawal between Israel and Lebanon reported today that it has maintained its positions and humanitarian activities despite continuing heavy exchanges of fire between Israeli and Hizbollah forces in ... More >>
UN Middle East Envoy Calls For United Effort
Saturday, 22 July 2006, 8:00 pm | United Nations
Regretting that his meetings with leaders in Lebanon and Israel found “serious obstacles” to a comprehensive ceasefire in the violence-racked region, a top United Nations envoy today called on the Security Council to unite in the coming days to ... More >>
UNSG Briefing To UNSC On Middle East Crisis
Friday, 21 July 2006, 9:52 am | United Nations
The bloody conflict that has engulfed Lebanon and northern Israel, following the crisis triggered by the Hezbollah attack across the Blue Line on 12 July, continues to rage. Almost every day brings a new escalation. More >>
Annan Proposes Package Of Actions For Lebanon
Friday, 21 July 2006, 9:50 am | United Nations
Renewing his urgent appeal for an end to the civilian carnage in Lebanon and northern Israel and condemning both that country’s use of excessive force as well as Hizbollah’s recklessness, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today proposed elements ... More >>
Probe Urged Into Power Plant Destruction In Gaza
Friday, 21 July 2006, 9:48 am | United Nations
An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged an inquiry into an attack on an electricity power station in Gaza that has exacerbated an already critical health situation threatening the lives of civilians and could constitute a violation ... More >>
Côte d’Ivoire: UN fully prepared to use sanctions
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 8:18 pm | United Nations
Security Council ‘fully prepared’ to use sanctions on those blocking peace in Côte d’Ivoire More >>
Lebanon: Civilian lives should be priority says UN
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 8:16 pm | United Nations
In anticipation of tomorrow’s arrival of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, his Lebanon envoy team and other high officials in New York, where they will meet as part of efforts to end the spiralling Middle East violence, Mr. Annan’s deputy said that ... More >>
Lebanon / Israel: Concern at civilian casualties
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 8:15 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) today expressed “serious concern” about civilian casualties and new risks to health from escalating violence in Lebanon and Israel, warning of the serious psychological ... More >>
Timor-Leste needs ‘long term commitment’
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 8:12 pm | United Nations
Following the recent deadly violence in Timor-Leste, in which 155,000 people were forced to flee their homes, it is important for the international community to realize that the tiny nation needs a sustained, long-term commitment, a United Nations envoy ... More >>
Iraq: UN envoy warns that violence threatens Govt
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 8:11 pm | United Nations
Describing the escalating violence in Iraq as a “catastrophe and a national tragedy”, the senior United Nations envoy to the country called today on all Iraqis to end the vicious cycle, warning that it threatens to erode the Government’s authority ... More >>
Decentralization talks on province of Kosovo
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 8:10 pm | United Nations
In the run-up to a high-level meeting next week on the future status of the United Nations-run province of Kosovo, delegations from Pristina and the Serbian capital of Belgrade met today in Vienna to discuss the decentralization process in the province, ... More >>
Mideast: Protection of civilians, accountability
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 7:58 pm | United Nations
Expressing grave concern at the killing and maiming of civilians in Lebanon, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said today that the shelling of cities was an “unacceptable ... More >>
Annan ‘saddened’ by toll of latest tsunami
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 7:55 pm | United Nations
Expressing condolences for the hundreds killed by the latest tsunami to hit Indonesia, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today offered humanitarian and reconstruction assistance, as the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Agency (UNESCO) ... More >>
