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Historic inaugural session of UN Peacebuilding Com
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 4:58 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 >>
Liberia: UN hails launch of Truth & Reconciliation
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 4:55 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 >>
Probe into killing of Saddam Hussein’s lawyer
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 4:53 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 >>
Annan mourns passing of US prof who championed UN
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 4:52 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 >>
DPR Korea should heed calls on missile tests
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 4:50 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 >>
DR Congo: 4,000 displaced persons fleeing militias
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 4:49 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 >>
Timor-Leste: UN envoy broadcasts unity appeal
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 4:48 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 >>
Funds running low to help Indonesian quake victims
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 4:47 pm | United Nations
Just one month after a devastating earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Java, money is running out for essential food, water and education projects to reach the people worst hit by the disaster, the United Nations Office for the Coordination ... More >>
Sudan: Internally displace want UN force in Darfur
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 4:46 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 >>
‘Zero tolerance’ for sexual violence in conflict
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 4:45 pm | United Nations
Delegates from more than 30 countries at a United Nations-backed conference on sexual violence in conflict today endorsed a programme for action, ranging from ending impunity to developing national preventive plans, after hearing harrowing accounts of the ... More >>
Poverty is most serious, spread human rights abuse
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 4:43 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 >>
End nuke non-proliferation deadlock, Annan pleads
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 6:04 pm | United Nations
With the world “sleepwalking” down the path towards more States, and possibly terrorists, acquiring nuclear weapons, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly urged the Conference on Disarmament to take action after nine years of deadlock and ... More >>
UN 'deplores’ Israel’s killing of 3 children, Gaza
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 6:00 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today deeply deplored the killing of three children and the injury of other bystanders in an attempted Israeli targeted killing of alleged militants in Gaza. More >>
Hussein trial, Iraq: UN condemns murder of lawyer
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 5:46 pm | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy in Iraq today condemned the abduction and killing of a defence lawyer in trial of ousted President Saddam Hussein before the Iraqi Higher Tribunal. More >>
UN tackles worsening sexual & reproductive health
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 5:44 pm | United Nations
With more than half a million women dying each year during pregnancy and childbirth from largely preventable causes, and 340 million new cases of sexually transmitted bacterial infections annually, United Nations agencies are coordinating action to ... More >>
Montenegro’s application to join UN discussed
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 5:42 pm | United Nations
In a step that could lead to the first increase in the membership of the United Nations since 2002, the Security Council today considered an application by the Republic of Montenegro, which recently voted for independence from Serbia, to join the world ... More >>
UN-backed conference to tackle sexual violence
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 5:40 pm | United Nations
With sexual violence increasingly recognized as a public health threat and more frequently being used as a weapon of war, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today gathered more than 250 participants from 30 countries in Brussels for the first major international ... More >>
Burundi: Annan hails agreement with holdout rebels
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 7:36 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the signing of a preliminary agreement between the Government of Burundi and the last remaining major rebel group in the small Central African country, calling it “an important step towards ending ... More >>
‘Steady progress’ in Kosovo, early status call
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 7:34 pm | United Nations
Citing steady progress in minority protection and refugee returns in Kosovo, a top United Nations envoy called today for an early resolution of the question of the final political status of the Albanian-majority Serbian province, which has been ... More >>
Reports of possible missile firing by DPR of Korea
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 7:19 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today expressed concern over reports that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) might test-fire a long-range missile. More >>
