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Council Urges Formation Of Iraqi Government
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 1:22 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today welcomed the election of Iraq’s new leadership and voiced hope that the country would soon form a government. More >>
Global Teacher Shortages Threaten Goals
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 11:53 am | United Nations
With a projected worldwide shortage of 18 million teachers over the next decade, most critically in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab States, a United Nations report released today advocates training parents and teaching assistants to fill the gap, ... More >>
Company Donates Services to UN to Screen Vendors
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 11:07 am | United Nations
The United Nations is now better able to screen prospective contractors and other partners for any involvement in criminal activity -- such as money laundering, drug trafficking or terrorist financing -- with the donated assistance of the world's ... More >>
Hailing Haiti Vote
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 10:23 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today welcomed the recent parliamentary elections in Haiti while stressing that the impoverished Caribbean country still faces numerous challenges requiring international help. More >>
Congratulating Iraq Leaders, Unity Govt Urged
Monday, 24 April 2006, 11:13 am | United Nations
Congratulating Iraq's new political leadership, the senior United Nations envoy to the country today called on the elected officials to form a government of national unity. More >>
Saga Of Afghan Refugees In Pakistan Nears Closure
Sunday, 23 April 2006, 1:32 pm | United Nations
A top United Nations refugee official today ended a six-day visit to Pakistan, during which a breakthrough agreement was signed with the government that will help close the chapter on the millions of Afghans who fled there from their homeland during ... More >>
Nuclear Bomb Grade Fuel Removed From Uzbekistan
Sunday, 23 April 2006, 1:23 pm | United Nations
Spent nuclear fuel containing enough uranium to produce two and a half nuclear bombs has been returned to Russia from Uzbekistan in a secret mission completed yesterday under monitoring by the United Nations atomic watchdog agency as part of its efforts ... More >>
DR Congo: ahead of elections UN sends peacekeepers
Friday, 21 April 2006, 8:51 pm | United Nations
The vanguard of a new contingent of United Nations peacekeepers has arrived in embattled Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to boost security for forthcoming elections that it is hoped will cement the vast country’s transition ... More >>
Chernobyl on road to recovery 20 years after
Friday, 21 April 2006, 8:47 pm | United Nations
While commemorating the victims and vast damage caused by the Chernobyl, Ukraine nuclear disaster 20 years ago, a top United Nations development official has said that the region is embracing the right strategy for economic and social recovery. More >>
Afghanistan: UN condemns targeting of schools
Friday, 21 April 2006, 8:44 pm | United Nations
A United Nation expert on the right to education today voiced outrage at the seemingly systematic targeting of schools in Afghanistan, especially girls’ schools, by terrorist groups apparently seeking to shut down the school system. More >>
Darfur relief collapses: Fading internat.l support
Friday, 21 April 2006, 8:42 pm | United Nations
The disastrous combination of a worsening humanitarian situation, Government obstruction, rebel violence and weakened support of the international community has left relief operations in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region on the verge of breakdown, placing ... More >>
Nepal: UN condemns use of deadly police force
Friday, 21 April 2006, 8:37 pm | United Nations
United Nations human rights officials in Nepal today called the use of deadly police force against unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators “inexcusable” and said the Government had violated agreements by banning the deployment of UN monitoring teams during the ... More >>
Darfur Relief Efforts Near Collapse
Friday, 21 April 2006, 11:58 am | United Nations
The disastrous combination of a worsening humanitarian situation, Government obstruction, rebel violence and weakened support of the international community has left relief operations in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region on the verge of breakdown, placing ... More >>
Uganda request UN support to neutralize insurgents
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 9:09 pm | United Nations
To finally put an end to the 20-year, campaign of terror by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), notorious for conscripting and sexually abusing children and displacing millions across three African countries, the Ugandan Ministers of both Defence and ... More >>
Chernobyl: Iodine could have prevented cancer
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 9:02 pm | United Nations
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today that iodized salt could have significantly lowered the numbers of exposed children who developed thyroid cancer and called for the supplement ... More >>
Africa: Industrial development, UN boosts support
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 8:58 pm | United Nations
The United Nations will increase its support for industrial development in southern Africa through the opening today of a regional office in Pretoria for the UN agency dedicated to sustainable industry for the reduction of poverty. More >>
Teacher shortages threaten Africa, Arab States
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 8:54 pm | United Nations
Looming teacher shortages could prevent sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab States from achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of providing universal primary education (UPE) by 2015, according to a new United Nations report. More >>
Bird flu: UN sends team to Sudan to investigate
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 8:49 pm | United Nations
A team of United Nations bird flu experts arrived in Sudan today at the request of the Government to investigate a suspected human case which, if confirmed, would make Africa's largest country the second on the continent after Egypt to report human ... More >>
Iraq: UN press for national govt, meet Shiite
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 8:45 pm | United Nations
Continuing his efforts to tamp down rising sectarian violence, the top United Nations envoy in Iraq today discussed the need to form a government of national unity as soon as possible with the war-torn country’s leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand ... More >>
camel milk: Surmounting a few production humps
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 8:41 pm | United Nations
Developing camel dairy products such as milk can not only provide more food to people in arid and semi-arid areas but also give nomadic herders a rich source of income, with a $10 billion world market entirely within the realm of possibility, according ... More >>
