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UN helps Sri Lanka fight child sex tourism
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 7:03 pm | United Nations
Proclaiming a message of “zero tolerance” for child sex tourism in Sri Lanka, the United Nations is supporting a two-year action plan launched by the country’s tourist board to stop such exploitation, targeting visitors, children and adolescents, hoteliers, ... More >>
Timor-Leste: UN Office extended, expanded role?
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 7:01 pm | United Nations
Expressing “deep concern over the volatile security situation in Timor-Leste and its serious humanitarian repercussions,” the United Nations Security Council today extended for two months the world body’s small office there and asked Secretary-General ... More >>
DR Congo: Children suffer abuses
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 6:59 pm | United Nations
Grave rights abuses against children continue largely with impunity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a new report, calling for stepped-up measures to protect young Congolese at risk ... More >>
UN marks World Refugee Day with message of hope
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 6:55 pm | United Nations
From remote camps to big cities, from the steaming lowlands of Liberia to the high plateaux of Afghanistan, from floodlit fountains to fashion shows and soccer matches, the United Nations today celebrated World Refugee Day with a message of “Hope” broadcast ... More >>
Annan welcomes transfer of former Liberian Pres.
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 6:52 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan welcomed today’s transfer of Liberia’s former President, Charles Taylor, to the Netherlands, where he will stand trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone, saying the process will mark a “further victory ... More >>
Council Extends Diamond Sanctions Against Liberia
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 1:30 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today extended sanctions aimed at preventing Liberia from exporting rough diamonds, saying the situation in the West African country continues to pose a threat to international peace, but lifted the ban on the export ... More >>
DR Congo: Children Suffer Abuses
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 11:52 am | United Nations
Grave rights abuses against children continue largely with impunity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a new report , calling for stepped-up measures to protect young Congolese at risk ... More >>
Possible Missile Firing By DPR Of Korea
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 10:20 am | 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 >>
Annan appeals for 'new era', Human Rights Council
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 7:32 pm | United Nations
The new United Nations Human Rights Council held its inaugural session today, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan calling for “a clean break from the past” and a “new era” as the enhanced body seeks to give teeth to the protection of rights for all, ... More >>
Somalia: Dialogue with ‘Islamic Court’ militias
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 7:29 pm | United Nations
Saying that militias connected to Islamic courts now control three major districts of Somalia and might be driving toward the Ethiopian border, the top United Nations envoy to the country stressed today that it is crucial to open a legitimate dialogue ... More >>
Access for humanitarian aid getting worse in Sudan
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 7:27 pm | United Nations
Despite last month’s peace deal in Sudan’s Darfur region between the Government and the largest rebel group, access to humanitarian aid for the people displaced by the violence there – estimated at over 2 million – and elsewhere in the impoverished ... More >>
Niger: Traditional pregnant cows lending honoured
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 7:24 pm | United Nations
The lending of pregnant cows to neighbours who have fallen on hard times, a tradition among herdsman in Niger, has been added to a list of cultural practices around the world that best contribute to sustainable development, the United Nations Educational, ... More >>
Nuclear terrorism: Phase out civilian uranium use
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 7:19 pm | United Nations
Amid clear signs that terrorists are trying to acquire nuclear material through criminal networks, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency today called for urgent and more coherent global action to minimize the uses of and commerce in high ... More >>
New UN transport project to curb greenhouse gases
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 7:16 pm | United Nations
Aiming to curb greenhouse gas emissions by at least 100,000 tonnes a year, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today launched a multi-million dollar public transport project covering three major Latin American cities that are some of the ... More >>
Afghanistan: Forces must avert civilian deaths
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 7:14 pm | United Nations
With operations going on in southern Afghanistan, the United Nations mission in the country called on both national and international security forces to exercise caution to prevent civilian casualties. More >>
Myanmar Urged To Act Against Forced Labour
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 2:37 pm | United Nations
The United Nations labour agency has called on Myanmar to take “tangible and verifiable” measures within the next few months on the issue of forced labour or face the prospect of further action. More >>
World’s Poorest Countries See Some Growth
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 1:40 pm | United Nations
An increase in development aid since 2002 has raised health and education standards and hastened gender equality among the world’s poorest nations but overall poverty rates are not improving, according to a new United Nations report released today. More >>
Access for Aid Worse in Sudan Despite Accord
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 11:34 am | United Nations
Despite last month’s peace deal in Sudan’s Darfur region between the Government and the largest rebel group, access to humanitarian aid for the people displaced by the violence there – estimated at over 2 million – and elsewhere in the impoverished ... More >>
Urgent Action Needed To Conserve Deep Seas
Sunday, 18 June 2006, 1:36 pm | United Nations
Swift and wide ranging actions are needed to conserve the world's entire marine environment amid fears that humankind's exploitation of the deep seas and open oceans is rapidly passing the point of no return, according to a United Nations-backed report issued ... More >>
UN Report On Slum Dwellers
Sunday, 18 June 2006, 1:30 pm | United Nations
As the world's urban population is set to exceed rural dwellers for the first time next year a landmark study issued today by the United Nations shows that poor people living in urban areas are as badly off if not worse than their rural cousins, contradicting ... More >>
