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Racing Dream Team Raises $18,000 for Ethiopia
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 9:29 am | United Nations
Dream Team members who ran in the first sponsored 2005 Toyota Great Ethiopian Run to raise funds for orphans and vulnerable children pulled in more than $18,000 in Sunday’s “Run for Their Dreams” campaign, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ... More >>
UN raises reported abuse with Iraqi officials
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 2:57 pm | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy in Iraq has several times brought up the issue of human rights violations with Iraqi officials, including the need for "structural changes" in the security system, a UN spokesman said today. More >>
Annan urges Sudanese negotiators to end atrocities
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 2:54 pm | United Nations
Welcoming the beginning of the renewed Sudanese peace talks to end civil conflict in Darfur, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged representatives of the Government and the two rebel movements to stop the atrocities and bloodshed and to ... More >>
Eritrea/Ethiopia: UN increasingly restricted
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 2:48 pm | United Nations
Increasing restrictions on the freedom of movement of United Nations peacekeepers following an Eritrean ban on helicopter flights has made it harder to warn the international community of any new outbreak of hostilities on the tense frontier with Ethiopia, ... More >>
Marking Palestinian Solidarity Day
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 11:58 am | United Nations
In an address marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for renewed action by Israelis and Palestinians to meet their obligations under the Road Map peace process, which ... More >>
Pakistan: Cold Is Now Killing Quake Victims
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 10:13 am | United Nations
The first cold-related deaths have been reported among Pakistani earthquake survivors - two children who died of pneumonia and a man of hypothermia – and many more can be expected as temperatures drop below freezing point, especially at higher elevations, ... More >>
Donors Pledge 30% Of 2006 UN Refuge Budget
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 10:10 am | United Nations
With a $1.22 billion dollar budget for 2006 to assist some 19.1 million people worldwide, the United Nations refugee agency received firm funding pledges of $354.3 million from donors at its annual pledging conference in Geneva yesterday, a decrease of ... More >>
Culling Wild Birds Ineffective Against Flu
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 10:09 am | United Nations
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today warned against culling wild birds in cities in countries affected by bird flu, saying this could distract attention from the campaign to contain the disease among poultry in the battle against ... More >>
UN-Managed Nuclear Inspection Protocol Strengthens
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 10:07 am | United Nations
With Belarus and Malaysia signing a protocol that allows more effective nuclear inspections in their countries, 106 States have signed the important verification tool, with 16 signing this year alone, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ... More >>
Former Combatants In Liberia Offered Education
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 10:04 am | United Nations
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia today launched a programme to provide formal education to 20,000 disarmed former combatants as part of efforts to reintegrate into the mainstream the West African country's former belligerents ... More >>
Food Agency Adds AIDS Protection to Arsenal
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 9:52 am | United Nations
Sex workers, truck drivers, store personnel and port workers now all have access to information, counselling on HIV and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases where and when they need it most, thanks to an innovative new project launched by ... More >>
Calls for Protection of Earth's Climate Heard
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 9:46 am | United Nations
Calls for action to protect the earth's vulnerable climate led off the first ever meeting of the 157 countries that have signed onto the United Nations-backed Kyoto Protocol, which aims to reduce the so-called "greenhouse gasses" that have ... More >>
Vaccination Campaign Against Yellow Fever
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 3:55 pm | United Nations
United Nations agencies and their partners are supporting a mass vaccination campaign against yellow fever in Sudan's South Kordofan state, where 530 cases have already been reported, 131 of them fatal, following the weekend arrival of 1.7 million doses ... More >>
Project To Help Reporting On Human Rights
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 3:52 pm | United Nations
The United Nations has joined with the Afghan Government in launching a project to report on the country's implementation of human rights treaties, including those enshrining civil, political and children's rights and outlawing racial discrimination, ... More >>
Extension Of Myanmar Activist's Detention
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 2:57 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that he is "deeply disappointed" that Myanmar's authorities have extended the detention under house arrest of democracy activist Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for another six months. More >>
Annan Congratulates Anti-Landmine Activists
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 2:55 pm | United Nations
Citing remarkable cooperation and progress in reducing landmine use, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today warned that anti-personnel mines still kill, maim and threaten the lives of civilians and he called on governments to fulfil their ... More >>
UN Agency Transfers New Congo Refugees to Burundi
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 2:13 pm | United Nations
The UN refugee agency is transferring more than 400 recently arrived refugees from the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who say they are fleeing fighting between the DRC army and the Mayi-Mayi militia, to a camp in northern Burundi. More >>
UN applaudes Syria’s Role In Helping Palestine
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 9:46 am | United Nations
The head of the main United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees has stressed the importance of Syria’s contribution in helping it perform its work. More >>
Kosovo: UN Envoy On Final Status Talks
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 9:44 am | United Nations
The United Nations special envoy for the future status talks on Kosovo today called for greater progress in meeting key goals that include building democratic institutions and enforcing minority rights in the ethnically divided Serbian province which the ... More >>
Education Plays Key Role In War On Hunger
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 9:43 am | United Nations
Top priority should be given to improving access to quality education in rural areas for communities of farmers, fisherfolk, and livestock producers as well as people living in mountains, forests and deserts, as a key factor in the battle against hunger, ... More >>
