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UN extends mandate of experts on Darfur sanctions
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 7:05 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today decided to extend until 29 September 2006 the mandate of an expert panel monitoring an arms embargo against belligerents in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region and helping sanction those who fail to comply. More >>
Annan congratulates Israel’s Acting PM on win
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 7:02 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today congratulated Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and his Kadima Party on winning the highest number of seats in yesterday’s general election, encouraging him to actively pursue Middle East peace. More >>
36,000 Pakistani quake victims have left camps
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 6:59 pm | United Nations
The first relief camps in Pakistan’s quake zone have been emptied after more than 36,000 people left for their homes as part of the return process that started earlier this month with the end of winter, according to the United Nations refugee agency, ... More >>
Belarus: UN experts urge invest. of human rights
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 6:57 pm | United Nations
Roads, health clinics and Portuguese language courses are among the priority needs identified by a study conducted by the Government of Angola and the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) to ensure that the country’s development plans include reintegrating ... More >>
Belarus: UN experts urge invest. of human rights
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 6:56 pm | United Nations
With reports that recent demonstrations in Belarus have been violently dispersed and over 1,000 protesters and journalists detained, a group of seven United Nations experts today called for investigations into what they termed the deteriorating human ... More >>
Sudan: Staffer dies after attack on UN refugee ag.
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 6:54 pm | United Nations
An Iraqi staffer of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), gravely wounded two weeks ago in an attack on a compound in southern Sudan, died overnight in a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, bringing to 22 the number of UNHCR staff killed in the line of ... More >>
Thailand: Action needed to break male dominance
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 6:49 pm | United Nations
Thai women face major prejudice in politics and stark under-representation in the upper tiers of the Government, according to a United Nations-backed report launched today that sets out a raft of concrete recommendations for speeding progress in reducing ... More >>
Lebanese journalist, bomb surviver, awarded prize
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 6:46 pm | United Nations
A Lebanese journalist who lost one of her hands and her left leg in a car bomb attack last September was today named the winner of a top United Nations prize celebrating freedom of the press. More >>
First Russian donation to UN food agency
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 6:42 pm | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the receipt of a pioneering contribution of $6 million worth of wheat from Russia to the agency’s relief and recovery operation in Tajikistan. More >>
Council Calls on Iran to Suspend Enrichment
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 1:11 pm | United Nations
Expressing serious concern that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is unable to conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear materials or activities in Iran, the United Nations Security Council today called upon that country to re-establish ... More >>
Annan: Helping Arab world overcome many challenges
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 9:10 pm | United Nations
In a wide-ranging review of the “many formidable challenges” facing the Arab world, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today reaffirmed the United Nations commitment to help resolve issues ranging from sectarian violence in Iraq to the Israeli-Palestinian ... More >>
Côte d’Ivoire: UN troops redeployed
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 9:07 pm | United Nations
United Nations peacekeepers have been redeployed to a western town in Côte d’Ivoire two months after they were withdrawn following violent anti-UN demonstrations. More >>
Huge urban growth threatens safe water, sanitation
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 9:03 pm | United Nations
With urban populations in Asia, Africa and Latin America slated to double to nearly 4 billion, efforts must be stepped up to meet the far-reaching challenges this trend poses to providing safe water and sanitation, according to a report by the United ... More >>
Mexico’s recovery from hurricane a role model
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 8:58 pm | United Nations
The rapid recovery programme carried out in Mexico’s leading Caribbean resorts after the devastation caused by Hurricane Wilma last year can serve as a blueprint for other tourist regions facing similar catastrophes, the head of the United Nations ... More >>
Kosovo: Stabbing of Serb youth, UN urges restraint
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 8:55 pm | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Kosovo today voiced deep regret at the stabbing of a Kosovo Serb juvenile in the northern part of Mitrovica this evening and urged all concerned to exercise restraint while the police investigate. More >>
Burundi: Talks begin on justice & reconciliatio
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 8:45 pm | United Nations
The top United Nations legal expert is leading a mission of high-level UN officials to Burundi aimed at helping to set up a truth and reconciliation commission and a special tribunal for human rights abuses committed during the country’s 12-year long ... More >>
Global HIV therapy access tripled in past 2 years
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 8:43 pm | United Nations
Access to HIV treatment in low- and middle-income countries has more than tripled to 1.3 million people in the past two years with the greatest progress in those regions most heavily affected by the epidemic but this welcome progress still falls short ... More >>
UN concerned over reported disappearance of Taylor
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 8:40 pm | United Nations
Echoing the Security Council’s concern over the reported disappearance from Nigeria of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who was indicted by a United Nations-backed court in Sierra Leone for war crimes, Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for all ... More >>
UN Envoy To Visit South Sudan After Attacks
Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 2:08 pm | United Nations
Following separate attacks earlier this month on United Nations offices in southern Sudan, one of which killed a local guard, the senior UN envoy to the strife-torn country will travel to the affected areas later this week, before leaving for Nigeria ... More >>
Lebanon: Its course toward new era is encouraging
Monday, 27 March 2006, 7:44 pm | United Nations
Following a series of high-level meetings in Beirut, a senior United Nations envoy departed Lebanon today saying he is encouraged that the country is charting the proper course towards stability and urging all concerned to forge ahead in unity. More >>
