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Tents And Cooking Utensils To Quake Victims
Tuesday, 25 October 2005, 1:43 pm | United Nations
22 October, Islamabad: In support of the earthquake recovery, the United Nations Development Programme has mobilized 12000 sets of winterized tents and 12000 sets of kitchen utensils for the earthquake victims in AKJ and NWFP. Haoliang Xu, UNDP ... More >>
Haiti: UN Helps Apprehend Suspected Bandits
Tuesday, 25 October 2005, 10:44 am | United Nations
Blue helmets serving with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) have apprehended seven suspected bandits who were turned over to the UN and national police. More >>
Morocco Agrees To UN Refugee Agency Team Access
Tuesday, 25 October 2005, 10:29 am | United Nations
Morocco has promised access for a senior United Nations refugee team that has been waiting since last week for government permission to visit sub-Saharan African migrants reportedly being held in various parts of the country, the agency said today. More >>
Annan Urges Peace For Georgia-Abkhaz Sides
Tuesday, 25 October 2005, 10:28 am | United Nations
With peace talks between the Georgia Government and Abkhaz separatists restarted, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has voiced hope that both sides will be able to agree to a non-resumption of hostilities and the safe return of internally ... More >>
Annan Recommends Starting Future Status Talks Now
Tuesday, 25 October 2005, 10:26 am | United Nations
Although democratic progress in Kosovo has been uneven, talks should begin now on the future status of the UN-administered province of Serbia and Montenegro, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the Security Council in a letter released today. More >>
Dirty Bombs – All Part Of UN Nuclear Exercise
Tuesday, 25 October 2005, 10:24 am | United Nations
Airplanes crashed, terrorist threats proliferated and dirty bombs were primed as 38 of the world's senior security officials wrestled with doomsday scenarios in a mock emergency exercise mounted by the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency. More >>
Upcoming Hiv/Aids Meeting In The Pacific
Friday, 21 October 2005, 5:05 pm | United Nations
HIV/AIDS is a '"storm gathering offshore" in the South Pacific and is about to erupt in Pacific communities in a devastating way unless prevention and support programmes are strengthened, United Nations AIDS experts said today. More >>
Somali Leaders Need to Resume Dialogue, Annan Says
Friday, 21 October 2005, 1:06 pm | United Nations
Friction between leaders in Somalia is preventing the country's federal institutions from functioning effectively and if divisions intensify these fragile structures could be undermined, Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns in a new report to the Security ... More >>
Members Must Act On UN Blueprint for Change
Friday, 21 October 2005, 1:05 pm | United Nations
United Nations Member States must act to implement the decisions of last month's historic World Summit, which produced major progress as well as plans for further advancement, Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette has said. More >>
Haiti: UN Envoy Hopes for Emergency Fund
Friday, 21 October 2005, 1:03 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Secretary-General's representative in Haiti is in Brussels today for a two-day European Union (EU) donors' conference which he hopes will create an emergency fund for the troubled Caribbean country. More >>
Milestone Mark In Repatriation Of Angolan Refugees
Friday, 21 October 2005, 10:01 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has opened a new route home for nearly 6,500 Angolans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), marking a new milestone in its voluntary repatriation programme that has already helped repatriate almost 200,000 Angolans ... More >>
UN & Nato Launch Airlift For Quake Victoms
Friday, 21 October 2005, 9:59 am | United Nations
With Secretary-General Kofi Annan calling on international organizations to join an “immediate and exceptional escalation” of relief operations for Pakistan’s devastating earthquake, the United Nations refugee agency has begun its first ever joint large-scale ... More >>
UN Concerned At Cambodian Journalist's Arrest
Friday, 21 October 2005, 9:55 am | United Nations
Declaring that the recent arrests of a Cambodian journalist and a teachers’ leader on charges of defamation “are highly irregular, and illustrate a deeply worrying trend,” a senior United Nations human rights official today called on the authorities ... More >>
Israel's Gaza Withdrawal Yet to Bring Peace
Friday, 21 October 2005, 9:34 am | United Nations
Energetic coordination, cooperation and engagement by Israelis, Palestinians and the international community are necessary to translate a positive development, Israel's disengagement from Gaza, into a sustained and negotiated peace, the top United Nations ... More >>
Food Aid For 130,000 Azerbaijanis Faces Shut Down
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 5:57 pm | United Nations
Without immediate help from international donors, food assistance to 130,000 Azerbaijanis displaced by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Armenia could come to a complete halt in just three weeks time More >>
UN-Backed Convention Against Doping In Sport
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 3:56 pm | United Nations
Athletes worldwide will be subjected to the same anti-doping rules and regularly tested, sanctions will be uniform, and fresh emphasis will be given to raise public awareness of doping’s adverse effects under a new United Nations-backed treaty that ... More >>
Humanitarian Activities In Iraq Quietly Save Lives
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 3:35 pm | United Nations
United Nations humanitarian relief activities are being carried out in Iraq below the media radar for security reasons, but these quiet efforts to provide clean water, sanitation, health services and education are achieving great results, including ... More >>
Efforts To Protect Women In Wartime
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 3:18 pm | United Nations
Five years after the adoption of a groundbreaking Security Council resolution on women in armed conflict, emissaries from some of the most war-ravaged parts of the world meeting at a United Nations-backed conference in Bucharest said more must be ... More >>
Update: Refugee Agency Team In Morrocco
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 3:01 pm | United Nations
A senior United Nations refugee agency team sent to Morocco last week is still awaiting government permission for access to sub-Saharan African migrants reportedly being held in various parts of the country, the agency said today. More >>
Official Pledges Further Effort to Fight Sex Abuse
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 2:14 pm | United Nations
Combating sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeepers, currently some 80,000-strong around the world, will require a continuous effort, and more needs to be done, the head of the world body’s peacekeeping operations said today. More >>
