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UN drug chief sounds alarm over European cocaine
Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 7:59 pm | United Nations
Cocaine consumption in Western Europe is reaching alarming levels while opium production in Afghanistan could rise again this year despite a welcome decline in 2005, but overall the world drug problem is being contained, according to a new United Nations ... More >>
Uganda agreeds to cleanse army of child soldiers
Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 7:54 pm | United Nations
A senior United Nations envoy just back from Uganda said today that while children there are still at grave risk because of abuses by a rebel group in the north of the country, they will have some new protections now that the Government has agreed ... More >>
Annan receives arms petition signed by one-million
Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 7:52 pm | United Nations
The Million Faces Petition, which organizers billed as the world’s largest appeal for tougher global controls on the arms trade, was presented to Secretary-General Kofi Annan today in New York by a consortium of international groups as well as the ... More >>
Sri Lanka: After attack, calls for peace talks
Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 7:48 pm | United Nations
After deadly attack, Annan calls on all sides in Sri Lanka to resume peace talks More >>
Unicef Praises Campaign Against Killer Kid Disease
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 2:03 pm | United Nations
With global attention focused on the World Cup, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today spotlighted a campaign in Angola where four football stars have taken to the airwaves encouraging Angolans to participate in an upcoming immunization campaign ... More >>
Displaced In Sudan Want Un Force In Darfur
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:59 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations peacekeeping official, who has been leading a joint fact-finding mission to Sudan, has said that internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the troubled region of Darfur have asked for a UN peacekeeping force to stop the bloodshed there. More >>
Delegates Stress Global Development Goal
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:57 pm | United Nations
Stressing the need for investment in efforts to reach global development goals as a means to end poverty, one of the key speakers at the United Nations > World Urban Forum III called on delegates not to let to our leaders off the hook," while ... More >>
Asia Cooperation Conference Welcomed
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:53 pm | United Nations
The Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building in Asia (CICA), which brings together a diverse range of countries from across the region, has a key role to play in advancing responses to major global challenges, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said ... More >>
Polio Immunization Drive Combats Outbreak
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:49 pm | United Nations
With the number of suspected polio cases in Namibia surpassing 100, with more than a dozen fatalities, a massive United Nations-backed campaign to immunize the entire population of some 1.8 million against the often paralyzing and sometimes fatal disease ... More >>
Liberia: Un Hails Launch Of Commission
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:46 pm | United Nations
Welcoming the formal launch of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) which aims to heal the societal wounds of Liberia's brutal 14-year civil war, the top United Nations official in the country appealed for continued international support for ... More >>
Korea Should Heed Calls On Missile Tests
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:41 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today repeated his call for caution on the part of the authorities of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), pointing out that the broader regional context requires restraint. More >>
Annan Mourns Passing Of Us Professor
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:36 pm | United Nations
Mourning the passing of Professor Louis B. Sohn, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today paid tribute to the late educator, who was present at the founding of the world body. More >>
Officials HailInaugural Session Of Peacebuilding
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:31 pm | United Nations
In what United Nations officials hailed as an historic milestone in global efforts to help countries avert a relapse into bloodshed after emerging from conflict, the first meeting of the newly created Peacebuilding Commission was held today at UN ... More >>
Poverty The Most Serious Human Rights Abuse
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:24 pm | United Nations
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour today described poverty as the most serious, invidious and widespread human rights violation confronting the world, while calling on all States to keep laws at the forefront of their efforts ... More >>
Probe Into Killing Of Saddam's Defence Lawyer
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:21 pm | United Nations
A United Nations expert on human rights and legal systems today called on the Iraqi Government to launch an independent investigation into the killing of a lawyer working for the defence team of former President Saddam Hussein. More >>
Timor-Leste: Un Envoy Broadcasts Unity Appeal
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:17 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy in Timor-Leste sought to avert further unrest there today, broadcasting an appeal to the people to unite after violence attributed to differences between eastern and western areas tore through the small South-East Asian ... More >>
Annan Calls For End To Intimidation In Congo
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:13 pm | United Nations
With the largest and most challenging elections the United Nations has ever helped organize slated to take place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in little over a month, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for full transparency of ... More >>
Congo: 4,000 Displaced Persons Reach Un Sanctuary
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:08 pm | United Nations
Some 4,000 displaced people have escaped the clutches of militias in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), trekking for up to 80 kilometres though forests to reach sanctuary where they are receiving food and shelter from the United ... More >>
Girls As Young As One Sexually Abused In Conflicts
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 1:01 pm | United Nations
Harrowing accounts of girls as young as one year-old being raped by foreign objects such as metal bars, nails and sticks, are among the most heart-wrenching testimonies presented at a United Nations-backed International ">Symposium on Sexual Violence ... More >>
Un Envoy In Iraq Condemns Assassination Of Imam
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 12:53 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Iraq today condemned the latest round of sectarian violence, including the assassination of an Imam from the southern city of Basra and a deadly blast at a mosque in the capital, Baghdad. More >>
