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Annan urges fight against ‘everyday’ intolerance
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 9:26 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on everyone, from parents to schools to governments, to fight everyday discrimination and “unteach” common-place intolerance that underpin humanity’s “most horrific crimes.” More >>
Water misuse, climate change: malnutrition disease
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 9:24 pm | United Nations
Decreasing river flows, rising saltiness of estuaries, loss of fish and aquatic plant species and reductions in coastal sediments are likely to intensify farmland losses, food insecurity and damage to fisheries, increasing malnutrition and disease around ... More >>
Gaza food crisis looming, UN urges Israel to open
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 9:21 pm | United Nations
As the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip deteriorates with food and other supplies running short due to the Israeli closure, a senior official of the main United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees said he sincerely hopes Israel’s opening today ... More >>
Continuing threats to Afghan women and children
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 9:18 pm | United Nations
With Afghanistan’s new school year officially beginning tomorrow, a senior United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official has warned of a continued threat facing Afghan women and children from high rates of child and maternal mortality, low levels ... More >>
Lebanon: UN continues regional mission on eve
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 8:50 pm | United Nations
Ahead of tomorrow’s resumption of multi-party talks in Lebanon aimed at bringing about national reconciliation, a senior United Nations official today conferred with senior officials of Qatar, a key regional player. More >>
Bird flu’s human death toll passes 100, UN reports
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 8:48 pm | United Nations
The human death toll from bird flu has now passed 100, following the confirmation of five new fatal cases in Azerbaijan, possibly as a result of collecting feathers from dead swans, the United Nations health agency reported today. More >>
Gaza Food Crisis: UN Urges Opening of Crossing
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 12:06 am | United Nations
As the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip deteriorates with food and other supplies running short due to the Israeli closure, a senior official of the main United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees said he sincerely hopes Israel’s opening today ... More >>
Iran: Annan Welcomes Release Of Journalist
Tuesday, 21 March 2006, 12:01 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he is pleased at the freeing of Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji following asix-year prison sentence. More >>
UNICEF hails ICC arrest of suspect in child
Monday, 20 March 2006, 7:59 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today lauded the International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest of a man accused of conscripting and enlisting children to fight in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). More >>
Côte d'Ivoire election commission up, UN departs
Monday, 20 March 2006, 7:57 pm | United Nations
Now that Côte d'Ivoire has established its Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), the United Nations High Representative for elections in the country has departed, the world body's peacekeeping operation there (ONUCI) announced today. More >>
UN envoy on Lebanon issues talks with Arab leaders
Monday, 20 March 2006, 7:54 pm | United Nations
Beginning a round of meetings with key Arab leaders in the Middle East, a senior United Nations envoy dealing with Lebanon today held what he called “constructive” talks with senior officials in Saudi Arabia. More >>
Leaving Madagascar, Annan urges political dialogue
Monday, 20 March 2006, 7:50 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today departed Madagascar with a call for dialogue among all political parties ahead of planned elections in the country. More >>
Lebanon: Head of Gulf Cooperation Council backs UN
Monday, 20 March 2006, 7:48 pm | United Nations
Recent developments in Lebanon and their broader regional context topped the agenda during talks in Riyadh between Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special envoy and the head of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Abdel Rahman Al-Atiyyeh, a United Nations ... More >>
IAEA report relating to Iran’s nuclear ambitions
Saturday, 18 March 2006, 4:58 pm | United Nations
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) report on Iran’s nuclear ambitions topped the agenda of a closed-door meeting of the United Nations Security Council today, the first time the issue has been formally addressed by the 15-member body. More >>
AIDS scourge in Africa; need for women's agency
Saturday, 18 March 2006, 4:54 pm | United Nations
Lesotho and Swaziland are “gasping for survival” amidst the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the United Nations special envoy for the disease in Africa said today, repeating his call for setting up an international women’s agency to deal with the discrimination ... More >>
Lower number of asylum-seekers raises questions
Saturday, 18 March 2006, 4:51 pm | United Nations
In the last five years, the number of asylum-seekers arriving in all industrialized countries has fallen by half, according to preliminary annual figures released today by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), who said this trend ... More >>
ICC: Congolese national arrested for war crimes
Saturday, 18 March 2006, 4:47 pm | United Nations
A Congolese national accused of conscripting child soldiers has become the first defendant arrested for trial by the International Criminal Court (ICC) established to ensure the prosecution of individuals committing war crimes, a United Nations ... More >>
Côte d’Ivoire: worrying rights situation
Saturday, 18 March 2006, 4:44 pm | United Nations
The human rights situation in Côte d’Ivoire is causing deep concern with virulent articles in the media encouraging violence and the resumption of conflict in a country split between Government and rebel forces since 2002, United Nations officials have ... More >>
UN sends security team to Sudan, following attack
Saturday, 18 March 2006, 4:42 pm | United Nations
A security and operations team from the United Nations refugee agency is heading to southern Sudan to assess the situation after Wednesday’s attack on an agency post in the town of Yei in which a local guard was killed and an Iraqi staff member and ... More >>
Kosovo, Serbian delegations hold new status talks
Saturday, 18 March 2006, 4:40 pm | United Nations
Delegations from Kosovo and Serbia today held their second round of direct talks on decentralization in the Albanian-majority Serbian province, which the United Nations has administered ever since the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) drove out Yugoslav ... More >>
