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States Agree On Actions To Get IT to Poor
Monday, 21 November 2005, 9:52 am | United Nations
On the final day of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia today, participating States agreed on a range of measures to broaden access to information networks and technology to poor communities. More >>
Annan unveils $100 laptop for world's children
Friday, 18 November 2005, 4:02 pm | United Nations
As the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) continued in Tunis last night, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan unveiled a prototype of a cheap and rugged $100 laptop for children, as part of the Summit's goal of giving poor communities ... More >>
UN struggles to monitor Ethiopia-Eritrea frontier
Friday, 18 November 2005, 3:59 pm | United Nations
The ability of the United Nations to monitor the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) separating Ethiopia and Eritrea is shrinking while posturing by the formerly-warring Horn of Africa countries is raising the stakes, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping ... More >>
Urging greater generosity, Annan in Pakistan
Friday, 18 November 2005, 3:57 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Pakistan today for an international donors’ conference on reconstruction after last month’s devastating earthquake, declaring “we need much, much more to help the people in need” as UN staff on the ground stressed ... More >>
ndependent probe into Saddam trial murder needed
Friday, 18 November 2005, 3:55 pm | United Nations
A United Nations human rights expert today has called on the Iraqi Government to launch an independent investigation into the recent assassination of two lawyers involved in the trial of Saddam Hussein, saying he was concerned at allegations that ... More >>
Tsunami Recovery Envoy Clinton to Return to Region
Friday, 18 November 2005, 1:30 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, former United States President Bill Clinton, has announced that later this month he will be making his second trip in his capacity as Envoy to countries devastated in the Indian Ocean region last ... More >>
UN, Expedia Launch World Heritage Travel Project
Friday, 18 November 2005, 1:28 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Foundation and Expedia, Inc., one of the world's leading travel services companies, today announced the launch of the World Heritage Alliance, an innovative joint initiative to promote sustainable tourism and awareness of World ... More >>
Annan Calls for Approval of $1.6 Bn HQ Renovation
Friday, 18 November 2005, 1:27 pm | United Nations
With the United Nations landmark Headquarters on New York's East River failing fire code, security, environmental and hazardous materials standards, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the General Assembly to approve without delay a nearly ... More >>
Jamaican Expert to Aid Developing Country Exports
Friday, 18 November 2005, 10:01 am | United Nations
A veteran Jamaican trade expert, Patricia Francis, has been named new Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), a United Nations technical cooperation agency whose mission is to help to promote exports of developing countries and countries ... More >>
UNESCO Showcases Breadth at 60th Anniversary
Friday, 18 November 2005, 9:59 am | United Nations
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) celebrated its 60th anniversary last night in Paris in the company of former directors, political leaders and luminaries such as anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, all stressing ... More >>
UN: International Day for Tolerance
Thursday, 17 November 2005, 5:37 pm | United Nations
UN marks International Day for Tolerance with call for cultures to learn about each other More >>
Tunis Summit: action on technology for poor?
Thursday, 17 November 2005, 5:32 pm | United Nations
The time has come to move beyond broad discussions of the “digital divide” – the gap in communications technology between rich and poor – to outlining a specific plan to give people access to the technologies they need and the education to use ... More >>
UN: agreement reached on Internet management
Thursday, 17 November 2005, 5:24 pm | United Nations
A non-profit United States-based body will remain in charge of technical management of the Internet, according to an agreement reached late last night on one of the most contentious issues in the lead-up to the Tunis phase of the United Nations World ... More >>
Annan Calls For More Palestinian Refugee Aid
Thursday, 17 November 2005, 2:11 pm | United Nations
Increased aid to Palestinian refugees would contribute to stability and hope in the Middle East even as a final, just and practical solution to the problem is sought with renewed vigour after recent positive developments, United Nations Secretary-General ... More >>
In Beirut, UN Official Fully Backs Mehlis Probe
Thursday, 17 November 2005, 11:29 am | United Nations
Continuing meetings in Beirut today, a senior United Nations official emphasized his confidence in Detlev Mehlis' investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and issued a renewed plea for Syria to cooperate fully with ... More >>
Envoy to Meet With Darfur Rebels on Peace Talks
Thursday, 17 November 2005, 9:09 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative for Sudan, Jan Pronk, left for South Darfur today for discussions with commanders of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement and Army on a range of issues, including their participation in the seventh ... More >>
Iraq: Annan Concern at Reported Abuse of Detainees
Thursday, 17 November 2005, 9:08 am | United Nations
In the wake of the reported abuse of a large number of detainees at an Iraqi interior ministry building, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today recalled that the United Nations has repeatedly voiced concern over ongoing human rights violations in Iraq, and specifically ... More >>
UN: Poor in US face daunting challenges
Wednesday, 16 November 2005, 7:38 pm | United Nations
Despite a multitude of federal and state social benefit systems in the United States, a raft of problems ranging from the high cost of health care to lack of low-cost housing impede people struggling to get out of poverty and can been seen as a human ... More >>
Bogus groups on Internet scam refugees
Wednesday, 16 November 2005, 7:34 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today issued a strong warning about Internet fraud resettlement schemes in which bogus organizations claiming UN affiliation use chat groups and dating or fake websites promising settlement and employment opportunities ... More >>
New border crossing can build Israeli-Palestinian
Wednesday, 16 November 2005, 7:27 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan welcomed today’s agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on the Gaza-Egypt border crossing, calling the development “a positive step towards building confidence” between the two parties. More >>
