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China: global leadership in scientific research
Friday, 20 January 2006, 12:51 am | United Nations
With science and technology now the driving forces behind socioeconomic progress, China is leading a small number of emerging Asian economies whose remarkable progress in research and development is challenging the leadership of North America, Europe ... More >>
Côte d’Ivoire: UN reacts to attacks with restraint
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 5:00 pm | United Nations
Côte d’Ivoire: UN reacts to attacks with restraint as diplomatic bid to end crisis intensifies More >>
Iraq: Women, children, clergy, detainees suffer
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 4:57 pm | United Nations
Terrorism and bombing campaigns, lawlessness, kidnapping and targeted killings continue to wreak havoc on civilians in Iraq, with the rights of women, children, detainees and religious leaders grievously violated, according to a new United Nations report. More >>
Disabled youth plead for inclusion at UN meeting
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 4:55 pm | United Nations
Disabled young people from Bangladesh, China and the United Kingdom today urged a United Nations committee drafting the first-ever convention on disability rights to address the exclusion and neglect of an estimated 150-200 million disabled children ... More >>
Women, Children, Clergy Suffer Abuse in Iraq
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 10:12 am | United Nations
Terrorism and bombing campaigns, lawlessness, kidnapping and targeted killings continue to wreak havoc on civilians in Iraq, with the rights of women, children, detainees and religious leaders grievously violated, according to a new United Nations report. More >>
UN Links With Pakistan Govt To Help Rural Poor
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 10:03 am | United Nations
A UN poverty-fighting agency and Pakistan’s Government sealed a $26.5 million loan agreement in Rome today that will give hundreds of thousands of people living in the country’s rural areas access to innovative financial services. More >>
UN To Prepare For Possible Human Flu Pandemic
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 8:35 am | United Nations
The possibility of human-to-human transmission of the bird flu virus must be met by a coordinated international response, reflecting the needs of all nations, United Nations Secretary-General said in a message to a conference today in China on avian ... More >>
OSCE Pledges To Work Close With UN On Terrorism
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 8:33 am | United Nations
OSCE Chairman Pledges To Work More Closely With UN On Terrorism And Other Key Issues More >>
Govts Must Reduce Impact Of Natural Disasters - UN
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 8:32 am | United Nations
Marking the one year anniversary of an international agreement aimed at reducing the impact of natural disasters, a senior United Nations official today called on countries to speed up their efforts to make risk reduction a national priority. More >>
Haiti: two UN peacekeepers killed at check point
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 3:40 pm | United Nations
Two Jordanian peacekeepers with the United Nations mission in Haiti were killed, and another wounded, in the dangerous Cité Soleil neighbourhood of the country’s capital Port-au-Prince this morning. More >>
Release of 4 Cambodian human rights activists
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 3:38 pm | United Nations
Breaking with a recent trend of arresting human rights activists, Cambodia has released four detainees, including the President of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights – a move that was immediately hailed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. More >>
UN: donated bird flu treatment for poor countries
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 3:37 pm | United Nations
Welcoming a donation by pharmaceutical group Roche of an additional 2 million courses of antiviral bird flu treatment the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today said the medicine would be used when needed in countries that are unable to ... More >>
Côte d’Ivoire: Annan demands end, anti-UN protests
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 3:35 pm | United Nations
A United Nations police office was firebombed in a Côte d’Ivoire’s San Pedro town and protesters gathered for a second day outside UN premises in the economic capital, Abidjan, prompting Secretary-General Kofi Annan today to demand an immediate halt ... More >>
Sudanese refugees will not be deported, says Egypt
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 3:33 pm | United Nations
Officials from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have received assurances from the Egyptian authorities that they will not deport Sudanese refugees in need of international protection who were involved in a fatal ... More >>
UN envoy discusses elections with Iraqi leaders
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 3:31 pm | United Nations
The results of last month’s elections in Iraq topped the agenda of talks today between senior United Nations envoy Ashraf Qazi and the country’s President and Prime Minister, a spokesman for the world body said. More >>
Pakistan quake relief: Bush, UN urge open supply
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 3:29 pm | United Nations
After meeting with survivors of the Pakistan earthquake, the United Nations Special Envoy for the South Asian Earthquake Disaster, former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush, said in Islamabad today that it was crucial to keep supply lines open ... More >>
UN & labour orgs work to keep environment clean
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 3:27 pm | United Nations
Leaders from more than 150 trade unions representing millions of workers around the globe agreed today to wrap environmental rights – such as access to water and energy – into their definition of traditional workers’ rights at a meeting hosted in Nairobi ... More >>
Former US President Bush in Pakistan as UN envoy
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 2:48 pm | United Nations
Former United States President George Herbert Walker Bush, who is also Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Envoy for the South Asian Earthquake Disaster, arrived in Pakistan today to spotlight the plight of victims. More >>
first-ever internat. rights treaty for disabled
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 2:47 pm | United Nations
Pledging to complete a full draft of a first-ever international treaty on the rights of persons with disabilities, the General Assembly committee charged with that task opened a marathon three-week meeting at United Nations headquarters today. More >>
Racism on Internet examined by UN working group
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 2:45 pm | United Nations
Experts meeting at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva today begin discussions on racism and the Internet and other related issues. More >>
