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Annan Call for New Approaches to Energy Efficiency

Thursday, 11 May 2006, 1:12 pm | United Nations

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan today called for new approaches to energy use with a focus on greater efficiency, increased investment in renewable sources and new technologies. More >>

Kenya: Measles, Polio Vaccination Target 5.5 Mil

Thursday, 11 May 2006, 1:11 pm | United Nations

More than half a million children under the age of five in Kenya’s Central and North Eastern Provinces have been immunized against measles and polio in the first phase of a United Nations-backed campaign targeting 5.5 million youngsters after a measles ... More >>

Palestinians: Quartet endorses direct aid

Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 8:07 pm | United Nations

With donors still balking at funding a Hamas-led Palestinian Government that has yet to renounce violence, and with conditions in the West Bank and Gaza deteriorating, key international partners in the Middle East peace process meeting at the United ... More >>

Human Rights Council: First members elected

Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 8:03 pm | United Nations

The United Nations General Assembly today elected 47 members of the recently established UN Human Rights Council – a move immediately welcomed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan as an opportunity for a fresh start as the new body replaces the much criticized ... More >>

No time to lose in setting up UN force for Sudan

Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 8:01 pm | United Nations

No time to lose in setting up UN force for Sudan’s Darfur region – Annan More >>

Palestinians allowed into Syria after two months

Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 7:59 pm | United Nations

Nearly 250 Palestinians stranded at the Iraq-Jordan border for the past two months were allowed into Syria today, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) reported. More >>

UN to repatriate Congolese refugees from Sudan

Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 7:57 pm | United Nations

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) is scheduled to begin repatriating around 850 Congolese from South Sudan today to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), from where they fled more than 40 years ago, despite poor conditions and insufficient ... More >>

Decade for ‘decent work in the Americas’ declared

Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 7:54 pm | United Nations

Government, employer and worker delegates announced the start of a “Decade of promoting decent work in the Americas” while addressing a deficit of 126 million jobs in Latin countries as a quadrennial regional meeting of the United Nations labour agency drew ... More >>

UN video game depicting battle on hunger a success

Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 7:50 pm | United Nations

Twelve months after its launch, the world’s first humanitarian video game – a United Nations-produced virtual world of planes launching food airdrops over crisis zones and emergency trucks struggling up treacherous roads under rebel threat with emergency ... More >>

Smugglers force migrants overboard off Yemen

Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 7:48 pm | United Nations

In yet another grim episode of asylum-seekers and migrants dying while trying to cross the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen, people-smugglers forced some 140 Ethiopians and Somalis at gunpoint to jump overboard, drowning at least 39 of them, the United ... More >>

Palestinians Allowed Into Syria After Two Months

Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 3:38 pm | United Nations

Nearly 250 Palestinians stranded at the Iraq-Jordan border for the past two months were allowed into Syria today, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) reported. The group consists of 181 Palestinians who left the Iraqi capital in March fleeing ... More >>

Global Struggle Against Disease

Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 2:19 pm | United Nations

Given the global threat posed by HIV/AIDS, malaria and emergent epidemics such as avian flu, holistic health systems must be built around the world, especially in developing countries, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today. More >>

Darfur: No Time To Lose In Setting Up UN Force

Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 10:31 am | United Nations

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the world community to follow up on last week’s peace accord between the Sudanese Government and the main rebel group in Darfur by establishing a muscular UN peacekeeping force and providing ... More >>

First Members To New Human Rights Council

Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 12:06 am | United Nations

The United Nations General Assembly today elected 44 of the 47 members of the newly established Human Rights Council to replace the much criticized and now defunct Human Rights Commission, with a second round of voting expected later to decide the full ... More >>

UN Programme Puts Spotlight On Sports

Tuesday, 9 May 2006, 2:32 pm | United Nations

Highlighting Tanzania’s innovative use of football to inform people of ways to prevent malaria, the country’s biggest child killer, the United Nations Office of Sport for Development and Peace has organized a visit for journalists in cooperation with other ... More >>

9-Year-Old Student Donates Money To UN

Tuesday, 9 May 2006, 2:31 pm | United Nations

A nine-year-old local student has presented a money order for $128 to the United Nations relief effort in Darfur after touring the world Organization’s Headquarters in New York. More >>

Assembly Vote Reflects Lack Of Consensus

Tuesday, 9 May 2006, 2:23 pm | United Nations

In a divisive vote separating developed from developing countries, the United Nations General Assembly today passed a resolution that could effectively slow a series of bold reform proposals put forward by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to overhaul and ... More >>