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Blueprint for new, more effective UN human rights
Friday, 24 February 2006, 4:12 pm | United Nations
Seeking to dramatically bolster the protection of human rights around the world, the President of the United Nations General Assembly today unveiled the draft blueprint for a new Human Rights Council with higher status and greater accountability than ... More >>
Côte d’Ivoire urged: help humanitarian orgs return
Friday, 24 February 2006, 4:11 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today urged Ivorian officials to help humanitarian groups return to the troubled West African nation since recent political unrest prompted many to leave. More >>
Progress against sexual exploitation, more needed
Friday, 24 February 2006, 4:08 pm | United Nations
“Significant progress” has been made in dealing with incidences of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by United Nations peacekeepers, but much more needs to be done, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping said today, calling for more support ... More >>
Local UN staff detained by Eritrean authorities
Friday, 24 February 2006, 4:05 pm | United Nations
Eritrean authorities are still detaining two locally recruited staff from the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), a UN official said today, but they have released 25 others. More >>
Bolivia: New UN base aids flood-stricken families
Friday, 24 February 2006, 4:04 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) today announced the establishment of a center to coordinate health, food, shelter and education aid for many of the 13,000 families affected by January’s severe floods in Bolivia. More >>
Tokelau: success of UN Decolonization Committee
Friday, 24 February 2006, 4:02 pm | United Nations
Opening the annual session of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette today called the successful referendum in the South Pacific atolls of Tokelau a welcome example of how all people in Non-Self ... More >>
DPR of Korea: UN approves new food aid plan
Friday, 24 February 2006, 3:30 pm | United Nations
The governing Executive Board of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today approved a two-year plan to build on the agency’s decade-long record of humanitarian assistance to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) by tackling nutritional ... More >>
Lebanese PM’s assassination: UN meets Syrian Reps
Friday, 24 February 2006, 3:28 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations investigation into last year’s assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri held his first meeting in Damascus with Syrian officials today, a UN spokesman said. More >>
UN treaty gives sailors’ labour rights, global era
Friday, 24 February 2006, 3:26 pm | United Nations
Seeking to ensure fair globalization, the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) today overwhelmingly adopted comprehensive new standards for the world's 1.2 million merchant sailors, setting out a host of rights to decent working conditions ... More >>
Afghanistan: UN on attack on schools and teachers
Friday, 24 February 2006, 3:23 pm | United Nations
The new top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today called on opponents of the violence-racked country’s Government to stop attacking schools and teachers and pledged that the world organization would help to reopen schools that have been attacked ... More >>
Earth From Above A Must See
Friday, 24 February 2006, 9:32 am | United Nations
“Sometimes shocking but always beautiful, the breathtaking “Earth From Above” photographic exhibition - is a must see,” says United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Committee chairman, Rob Fenwick. More >>
Meeting of Iraqi leaders to curb sectarian strife
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 3:05 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed to all communities in Iraq to show maximum restraint after the “provocative” bombing of a Shiite shrine today, and the top United Nations envoy on the ground said he would invite a wide range of Iraqi leaders to ... More >>
Annan welcomes DR of Congo’s new legal framework
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 3:03 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the new Constitution and electoral laws of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the United Nations is helping to organize one of the biggest polls in which it has ever participated. More >>
Inter-cultural tensions, West Africa, Cyprus
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 3:02 pm | United Nations
Intercultural understanding in the wake of violence over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the territorial dispute between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, and the situation in Cyprus will be discussed during United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s ... More >>
Somalia: UN appeals to factions to spare civilians
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 3:00 pm | United Nations
As heavy fighting continued in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, the senior United Nations envoy for the fractured Horn of Africa country today appealed to the leaders of the warring parties to end their hostilities and respect the security of civilian ... More >>
Nigerian bird flu outbreak threatens disaster
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 2:58 pm | United Nations
The deadly bird flu virus continues to spread in poultry in Nigeria and could cause a regional disaster despite strong control efforts taken by the Nigerian authorities, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today, calling ... More >>
Haiti: President’s vow to take young off streets
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 2:56 pm | United Nations
Haiti: UNICEF hails president’s vow to take young off streets, put them in school More >>
Kosovo parties find common ground in first round
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 2:54 pm | United Nations
The first round of direct negotiations between delegations from Albanian-majority Kosovo and Serbia on the future status of the Serbian province found common ground on the issue of decentralization of services, according to the United Nations envoy ... More >>
UN global treaty to curb tobacco use fortified
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 2:54 pm | United Nations
More than 100 countries agreed this month to a series of concrete steps that will propel a United Nations global treaty closer toward its goal of saving lives by curbing tobacco use among the world’s 1.3 billion smokers. More >>
UN Haiti welcomes national dialogue after election
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 2:52 pm | United Nations
After updating the Security Council on the election process in Haiti, the United Nations top envoy to that country welcomed President-elect René Préval’s invitation for Haitians to join together in a national dialogue. More >>
