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Empowering Women Crucial to Reducing Arab Poverty
Tuesday, 9 May 2006, 9:26 am | United Nations
Calling the 16 per cent poverty rate and the 13 per cent unemployment rate of Arab countries “alarming,” United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that action is required on many fronts to meet those challenges – but the empowerment ... More >>
Panel Boosts Efforts to Help States Counter Terror
Tuesday, 9 May 2006, 12:59 am | United Nations
The Security Council committee monitoring the implementation by States of counter-terrorism measures contained in a Security Council resolution is bolstering its efforts to help countries put those requirements into practice, the Chairman of the body said ... More >>
Angélique Kidjo: Children First, HIV fight, Africa
Friday, 5 May 2006, 6:17 pm | United Nations
Meeting with orphans in Kenya, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo called for efforts to make drugs accessible for HIV-infected children and changes in attitude necessary to foster prevention. More >>
Agriculture crucial for growth in ex-Soviet states
Friday, 5 May 2006, 6:14 pm | United Nations
Increased investment in agriculture is crucial for boosting economic growth in seven ex-Soviet states in Eastern Europe and Central Asia where more than 50 percent of the population now lives below the national poverty line, the United Nations Food ... More >>
Nepal: UN to build on recent positive steps
Friday, 5 May 2006, 6:12 pm | United Nations
After last month’s reinstatement of Parliament and a ceasefire by Maoist rebels stemmed weeks of civil violence in Nepal, a United Nations political official left for the Himalayan nation today to review the situation and help build on those positive developments, ... More >>
Journalists killed as UNESCO presents press prize
Friday, 5 May 2006, 6:09 pm | United Nations
Even as he presented an award to a Lebanese journalist who lost a hand and a leg in an attempted car bomb assassination, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) had to deplore the murder of two more ... More >>
Without beating AIDS, Africa can't reach goals
Friday, 5 May 2006, 6:07 pm | United Nations
Despite an improved commitment in African countries to fighting AIDS, the disease remains the continent’s greatest development challenge, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today told an African Union (AU) summit convened to boost the fight against ... More >>
Number of child labourers dips, challenges remain
Friday, 5 May 2006, 6:05 pm | United Nations
Child labour, especially in its worst forms, is in decline for the first time across the globe, the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) said today in a report which cautions that despite welcome progress, the fight against the scourge ... More >>
Official Sounds Alarm Over Inaction on Darfur
Friday, 5 May 2006, 4:29 pm | United Nations
With renewed carnage in Sudan’s Darfur region spilling into Chad and displacing hundreds thousands more in the past few months, the United Nations top relief official today warned that humanitarian disaster there was imminent if the world did not take quick ... More >>
Poor will feel greatest impact of climate change
Friday, 5 May 2006, 4:26 pm | United Nations
Changes in weather patterns and extreme weather events due to climate change will have the greatest impact on the world's poorest people, the head of the of the leading scientific panel on the issue told the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development ... More >>
Need for Countries to Plan for Pandemic Stressed
Friday, 5 May 2006, 11:38 am | United Nations
The top United Nations coordinator for bird flu today stressed the importance of national plans for tackling a possible human pandemic of the disease, acknowledging that while the task is difficult and complex, the effects of a human-to-human outbreak ... More >>
Humanitarian Office Shores Up Presence in DR Congo
Friday, 5 May 2006, 12:22 am | United Nations
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has opened a Field Coordination Unit in the troubled Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) saying the area is in the “throes of a silent humanitarian ... More >>
Manager of UN Capital Master Plan Resigns
Friday, 5 May 2006, 12:20 am | United Nations
The manager of the United Nations Capital Master Plan, which aims to tackle the myriad environmental, health and security problems associated with the dilapidated UN Headquarters complex, resigned today, citing his frustration at a number of factors, including ... More >>
Relief expert from Lebanon named UN envoy to Iraq
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 8:00 pm | United Nations
A long-serving Lebanese official with the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) was today named as Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Deputy Special Representative for Iraq, focusing on humanitarian relief, reconstruction and development in the war-ravaged ... More >>
Annan establishes group on genocide prevention
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 7:59 pm | United Nations
Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu of South Africa and the former United Nations Force Commander in Rwanda are among the seven diverse experts appointed today by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to provide support to his Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide ... More >>
DR Congo: UN denounces human rights violations
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 7:56 pm | United Nations
Military personnel from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as well as members of Mai-Mai groups are systematically committing human rights violations against scores of civilians in the Katanga province of the vast, war-torn country, the United Nations ... More >>
Banana, spread from India, threatened on home turf
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 7:55 pm | United Nations
More than 3,300 years after Alexander the Great ate a banana in India, liked it and introduced it to the wider world, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) voiced concern today at the shrinking number of wild bananas in their original ... More >>
IRAQ: Protection of Palestinian Refugees
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 9:34 am | United Nations
Amid increasing attacks against Palestinian refugees living in Iraq, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today welcomed a religious decree by the war-torn country’s leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Al-Said Al-Sistani, calling ... More >>
Chad: UN Warns Rising Tensions Could Threaten Food
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 12:08 am | United Nations
Rising tensions and reported preparations for armed attacks in Chad threaten to make an already highly complex logistical operation to feed hundreds of thousands of Chadians and Sudanese even more difficult, the United Nations World Food Programme More >>
Agency Targets Forced Servitude in Latin America
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 3:50 pm | United Nations
With 1.3 million victims of forced work in Latin America, representing more than 10 per cent of the global total, the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) aims to drastically reduce such hash servitude over the next 10 years, according ... More >>
