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AIDS epidemic grows in China every year
Friday, 27 January 2006, 11:35 am | United Nations
China’s AIDS epidemic is growing and every year 70,000 more people become infected with HIV, according to a report released today by the Chinese Ministry of Health, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organization ... More >>
UN Seeks Urgent Funds To Feed 1000s Of Chechens
Friday, 27 January 2006, 11:17 am | United Nations
With the Russian federation facing its coldest winter in over 25 years, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for urgently needed funds to resume food rations for thousands of people in Chechnya and Ingushetia. More >>
Annan congratulates Palestinians on elections
Friday, 27 January 2006, 9:53 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today congratulated Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian people on the peaceful and orderly conduct of their legislative elections. More >>
Nicole Kidman: Goodwill Ambass., UN women's agency
Friday, 27 January 2006, 9:51 am | United Nations
Award-winning screen actress Nicole Kidman was today named as a Goodwill Ambassador to for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), which she pledged to support through travels to devastated countries where its projects are carried ... More >>
UN: distributing sturdy, low-cost laptops to poor
Friday, 27 January 2006, 9:49 am | United Nations
Aiming to give poor communities access to the benefits of information technology, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced plans to support an innovative project which aims to put cheap and energy-efficient laptop computers ... More >>
UN envoy to Kosovo pays tribute to its late Pres.
Friday, 27 January 2006, 9:47 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Kosovo today paid tribute to the character and vision of its late president, Ibrahim Rugova, and urged the people of the province to carry through with his vision of unity and stability. More >>
Vietnam: Avian Influenza Communication Campaign
Friday, 27 January 2006, 9:45 am | United Nations
HA NOI -- With no new outbreaks of avian influenza among birds reported since the 15th of December last year and no reported human cases for over two months, the Government of Viet Nam and the United Nations are stepping up efforts to prevent the further ... More >>
Annan Congratulates Palestinian People
Friday, 27 January 2006, 9:41 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today congratulated Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian people on the peaceful and orderly conduct of their legislative elections. More >>
Annan appoints Panel monitoring Liberian sanctions
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 9:41 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appointed a five-member Panel of Experts to monitor the renewed sanctions regime the Security Council imposed on Liberia after receiving reports that the West African country’s natural resources were not ... More >>
UN Legal Counsel heads to Beirut to help Lebanese
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 9:40 am | United Nations
UN Legal Counsel heads to Beirut to help Lebanese set up tribunal for Hariri killing More >>
Annan urges decisive action on UN force in Darfur
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 9:38 am | United Nations
UN Security-General Kofi Annan today called on the Security Council to take a firm decision on a peacekeeping operation to stop the suffering in the devastated Darfur region of Sudan, but acknowledged that only a political agreement between the rebels ... More >>
Stalemate: pragmatic steps for disarmament negoti.
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 9:36 am | United Nations
As delegates participating in the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations gathered in Geneva to begin their annual session, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged them to take a pragmatic approach to breaking the stalemate that ... More >>
Centre to fight family violence opens, Afghanistan
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 9:34 am | United Nations
A new family centre that will help Afghan police counter the growing violence against women and children opened its operations in Kabul this week with the help of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). More >>
Life And Death Of Children In The Holocaust
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 9:11 am | United Nations
Patched-together dolls, drawings, poems and other personal effects give a glimpse of childhood turned unthinkable during the horrors of the Holocaust in an exhibition which opened today at the United Nations as part of a week of remembrance there. More >>
UN Legal Counsel Heads To Beirut To Help Lebanese
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 9:04 am | United Nations
The United Nations Legal Counsel will travel to Beirut this week to help the Lebanese authorities identify the nature and scope of the international assistance needed to create a tribunal to try those charged with the killing of former Prime Minister ... More >>
Annan lauds dismissal of charges against activists
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 3:00 pm | United Nations
Saying he was pleased that Cambodia’s Government has dropped all defamation charges against four human rights activists, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced hope for further progress in the impoverished Southeast Asian country. More >>
Violence forces UN to suspend ops in Côte d'Ivoire
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 2:58 pm | United Nations
Violence forces UN’s World Food Programme to suspend operations in Côte d’Ivoire More >>
Children in the Holocaust remembered at UN
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 2:56 pm | United Nations
Patched-together dolls, drawings, poems and other personal effects give a glimpse of childhood turned unthinkable during the horrors of the Holocaust in an exhibition which opened today at the United Nations as part of a week of remembrance there. More >>
Liberia: UN pledges $500,000 for gender equality
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 2:33 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) today announced that it has pledged $500,000 to Liberia while congratulating the country on the inauguration of its new President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first female to head an African ... More >>
100s Sudanese flee upsurge of violence in Darfur
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 2:31 pm | United Nations
Almost 800 Sudanese have fled to eastern Chad since the start of the year to escape increased violence in the neighbouring West Darfur region of Sudan, the United Nations refugee agency said today. More >>
