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Darfur: UN meets Sudanese officials in Khartoum
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 8:21 pm | United Nations
United Nations Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has been holding talks with senior Sudanese officials in the country’s capital, Khartoum, in a bid to gain access to the western Darfur region for a UN team assessing conditions for a possible peacekeeping operation ... More >>
Natural disasters: Early warning & mitigation - UN
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 8:19 pm | United Nations
Some 90 experts in early warning systems and natural disaster risk management met at a United Nations symposium in Geneva today to strengthen global mechanisms, especially for less developed countries, that have already helped to reduce the number of fatalities ... More >>
UN to host major review of global response to AIDS
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 8:16 pm | United Nations
More than a dozen Heads of State and Government, over 100 Ministers, as well as more than a thousand representatives of civil society and the private sector are set to gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York next week for a major review of ... More >>
UN considers measures to limit illegal fishing
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 8:15 pm | United Nations
Increased controls over ports and fishing vessels that could reduce illegal fishing were proposed by several countries today at a United Nations conference that is reviewing a landmark conservation and management agreement on fish stocks. More >>
Kosovo: Misinformation could stoke ethnic tension
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 8:14 pm | United Nations
With ethnically motivated crimes actually declining in Kosovo, the top United Nations envoy there today called for an end to the spread of misinformation about the security of Serbs in the Albanian-majority Serbian province, which the UN has run since Western ... More >>
Call for G8 Trade Liberalization , Energy Security
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 10:12 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling on the leaders of the “Group of Eight” industrialized countries to adopt at their upcoming summit bold trade liberalization measures, including duty- and quota-free access for the least developed countries, ... More >>
Agencies Help Resorts Adapt to Climate Change
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 10:09 am | United Nations
With climate change posing a potential threat to tourist resorts, the South Pacific islands nation of Fiji has been selected as a pilot country for a series of United Nations-backed projects aimed at helping the tourism sector to adapt to the effects ... More >>
Hearings on Côte D'Ivoire Nationality Welcomed
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 12:26 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today welcomed pilot public hearings in Côte d’Ivoire to establish the nationality of individuals and talks between government and rebel military leaders on starting the disarmament process. More >>
UN Supports Dialogue in Timor-Leste
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 12:25 am | United Nations
With quiet returning to Timor-Leste following recent violence, the UN Office in the country (UNOTIL) is supporting the Government’s proposed initiative to convene a meeting with representatives of the dissident groups in order to engage in a dialogue, ... More >>
Unicef Joins Afghan Govt In Fighting Illiteracy
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 12:07 am | United Nations
Responding to the plight of Afghanistan’s 8 million illiterate adults, more than 200 literacy teacher trainees, the vast majority women, have embarked upon tutor training programmes in three western provinces as part of a joint Government-United ... More >>
Monitoring Of World’s Fisheries
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 12:05 am | United Nations
Joining hands with several other organizations, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization today launched a new initiative to gather and maintain standardized information on the world’s fish stock. More >>
Annan seeks President's help, UN Darfur assessment
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 7:59 pm | United Nations
As two United Nations envoys arrived in Khartoum for talks with Sudanese officials in a bid to gain access to Darfur for a UN team assessing conditions for a possible peacekeeping operation there, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today spoke with the country’s ... More >>
UN Ethiopia-Eritrea mission: Calls for caution
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 7:57 pm | United Nations
With the United Nations Security Council considering whether or not to reduce the role of the peacekeeping United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) in calming border tensions between the two Horn of Africa countries, a senior UN official ... More >>
China: Role to play ensuring fair globisation
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 7:55 pm | United Nations
In the third of his lectures at Asian universities, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told Beijing students today that China’s engagement with the United Nations was essential as the world faces the challenges of achieving fair globalization, promoting multilateralism ... More >>
Palestinians fleeing Baghdad stranded on border
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 7:52 pm | United Nations
Nearly 190 Palestinians, including four pregnant women and 29 children, are still stranded in no-man's-land on the Iraqi-Syrian border two weeks after they said threats and harassment forced them to flee Baghdad, despite efforts by the United Nations ... More >>
Iraq: Violence continues to undermine human rights
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 7:49 pm | United Nations
The ongoing insurgency, terrorist attacks and revenge killings by armed groups in Iraq are increasingly targeting women, children and professionals, including academics, judges and their relatives, while military operations have also severely affected ... More >>
B’nai B’rith has role in Middle East solution
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 7:47 pm | United Nations
In facing global challenges including the Middle East conflict, the world needs B’nai B’rith and groups like it to be engaged across the international agenda, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said in a message to the organization. More >>
Sri Lanka: UN concerned over killings of civilians
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 7:45 pm | United Nations
Voicing deep concern about increasing killings of civilians, including children, in Sri Lanka, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today urged the parties to take immediate steps to defuse the violence, resume dialogue and strengthen ... More >>
UNICEF joins Afghan Govt fighting adult illiteracy
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 7:44 pm | United Nations
Responding to the plight of Afghanistan’s 8 million illiterate adults, more than 200 literacy teacher trainees, the vast majority women, have embarked upon tutor training programmes in three western provinces as part of a joint Government-United ... More >>
Sudan falling ‘far short’ on many of human rights
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 7:42 pm | United Nations
Sudanese authorities are failing to uphold many of the human rights commitments made last year, especially in the Darfur conflict, where the Government is unable and unwilling to hold perpetrators of international crimes accountable, and the killing ... More >>
