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UN In Urgency To Save Pakistan Quake Victims
Wednesday, 2 November 2005, 9:10 am | United Nations
United Nations agencies are working flat out to bring help to hundreds of thousands of survivors of Pakistan’s worst-ever earthquake before the onslaught of the harsh Himalayan winter further impedes access, but major funding shortfalls are hampering ... More >>
Call For Aid To Central African Republic
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 4:56 pm | United Nations
With Central African Republic (CAR) "gradually returning to a path of peace, economic recovery, reconstruction and sustainable development," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling for comprehensive joint assistance from the country's development ... More >>
General Assembly Designates Holocaust Remembrance
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 3:59 pm | United Nations
The United Nations General Assembly (GA) today adopted a resolution designating 27 January Holocaust Remembrance Day, and urged all nations to develop ways to keep the memory alive so that future generations will help prevent similar acts of genocide. More >>
Annan Appeals to Zimbabwe to Let UN Help Homeless
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 3:57 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appealed to the Government in Zimbabwe to allow the United Nations to provide humanitarian assistance to the country after the authorities rejected the world body's aid amid reports that tens of thousands of people there ... More >>
Mission Aids Dr of Congo to Move Rebels from East
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 11:35 am | United Nations
As the national army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) began a two-week operation today to clear thousands of heavily armed Rwandan Hutu rebels from the densely forested Virunga National Park in the east, the United Nations peacekeeping ... More >>
Conference Aimed at Global Approach to Bird Flu
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 11:09 am | United Nations
Several United Nations agencies and their partners will be holding a special conference next week in Switzerland to discuss a worldwide concerted approach to deal with the threat of an avian flu pandemic, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO). More >>
Sudan: UN Condemns Reported Killing of De-Miners
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 11:07 am | United Nations
The United Nations special envoy to Sudan condemned the killing of two Swiss de-miners in an alleged ambush in South Sudan today by the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). More >>
UN Population Fund Sets Up Programme in Niger
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 11:06 am | United Nations
A new programme will help pregnant and nursing women in Niger, a drought-stricken, locust-ravaged West African country with one of the world’s highest maternal death rates, with food and anti-malarial supplies, as well as safe child delivery services, ... More >>
Annan Urges Bolivian Parties To Settle Differences
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 10:09 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged all social and political sectors of Bolivia to reach a solution to the political impasse so they can hold elections as planned on 26 December, his spokesman said. More >>
Poor Funding May Ground Vital Quake Aid Choppers
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 9:00 am | United Nations
Little more than three weeks after Pakistan’s worst-ever earthquake, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) may be forced to ground its relief helicopters, the sole lifeline for hundreds of thousands of survivors cut off by landslides, within the ... More >>
UN Envoy, Iraqi Prime Minister Discuss Results
Monday, 31 October 2005, 2:09 pm | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Iraq, Ashraf Qazi, today discussed the results of the recent constitutional referendum with the country's prime minister, Ibrahim Jaafari. More >>
Annan Condemns Deadly Terrorist Bombings In India
Monday, 31 October 2005, 10:56 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General today condemned the series of deadly terrorist bombings that rocked the Indian capital, New Delhi, and urged the country's Government to prosecute those responsible. More >>
Nth Korea Urged To Allow Food Aid To Its People
Monday, 31 October 2005, 10:55 am | United Nations
UN Expert Urges Dpr Of Korea To Allow Foreign Food Aid To Reach Its People More >>
2.3 Million Eritreans Need Food Aid Due To Drought
Monday, 31 October 2005, 10:53 am | United Nations
Some 2.3 million Eritreans, about half the country's population, require some kind of food assistance because of drought and loss of production and livestock over the past four years, the United Nations emergency relief office reported today. More >>
Security Council Condemns Iran President's Remarks
Monday, 31 October 2005, 10:51 am | United Nations
Members of the United Nations Security Council today condemned remarks against Israel made earlier this week by Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. More >>
UN - Millions Of Children Assassinated By Hunger
Monday, 31 October 2005, 10:50 am | United Nations
Every child who dies of hunger in today's world is the victim of an assassination, a United Nations expert on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, said today in New York. More >>
Human Rights Abuses In Myanmar Not Being Addressed
Monday, 31 October 2005, 10:48 am | United Nations
Widespread and systematic human rights violations, grave abuses against ethnic communities, and lack of freedom of assembly and association are still the norm in Myanmar, but the international community has not responded with the appropriate creative diplomacy, ... More >>
200,000 Quake Victims Have Yet To Receive Aid – UN
Monday, 31 October 2005, 10:46 am | United Nations
Three weeks after an earthquake devastated northern Pakistan, some 200,000 people have still not received any assistance at all, the United Nations emergency relief office reported today, underscoring the dire situation in the remote region where ... More >>
Middle East Quartet Condemns Suicide Bombing
Monday, 31 October 2005, 10:44 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the other principles of the Diplomatic Quartet today consulted on the latest violence in the Middle East, condemning Wednesday's terrorist attack in Israel claimed by the Damascus-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad ... More >>
Unchecked Globalization Driving Int. Migration
Monday, 31 October 2005, 10:43 am | United Nations
Although globalization carries with it enormous benefits for least developed nations, growing disparities in the standard of living and level of human security are driving workers from the world’s poorest countries across borders in search of better opportunities, ... More >>
