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UN Provides Cash To Earthquake-Hit Pakistan
Monday, 10 October 2005, 10:22 am | United Nations
United Nations experts in Pakistan coordinating the humanitarian response to yesterday's massive earthquake today set up structures to facilitate the relief effort, which is also being supported by an initial cash grant the world body has provided to the ... More >>
No gender equality means losing war on poverty
Friday, 7 October 2005, 8:20 pm | United Nations
Global efforts to "make poverty history" are bound to fail if world leaders do not act now to end gender discrimination, according to the latest annual report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). More >>
Increasingly hostile environment for refugees
Friday, 7 October 2005, 8:13 pm | United Nations
An increasingly hostile environment marked by violence, endemic human rights abuses and waning generosity among traditionally hospitable nations is hampering United Nations efforts to protect millions of uprooted people around the world, according ... More >>
Agricultural workers face poverty, hunger
Friday, 7 October 2005, 8:11 pm | United Nations
Many of the world’s 450 million waged agricultural workers, the largest labour force on earth, are suffering from some of the highest incidences of poverty and hunger, according to a new United Nations report released today which calls for the promotion ... More >>
Deadly Central American floods highlight weakness
Friday, 7 October 2005, 8:05 pm | United Nations
The deadly flooding and huge mudslides caused by Hurricane Stan that have killed over 100 people in Central America and southern Mexico once again underscore the need for better preparation and more government investment in mitigating natural ... More >>
Iraq: Electoral Assistance Moves into Higher Gear
Friday, 7 October 2005, 4:21 pm | United Nations
With only 10 days to go before Iraqis go to the polls in a constitutional referendum, the United Nations is revving up its efforts to distribute copies of the document throughout the violence-wracked country. More >>
UN Rushes Assistance To Central American Countries
Friday, 7 October 2005, 4:14 pm | United Nations
In the wake of devastating flooding and volcanic eruptions in Central America, the United Nations is rushing assistance to El Salvador and Costa Rica, while Secretary-General Kofi Annan today pledged to mobilize international support for relief efforts in ... More >>
Hostility Hampers UN Efforts To Protect Refugees
Friday, 7 October 2005, 10:15 am | United Nations
An increasingly hostile environment marked by violence, endemic human rights abuses and waning generosity among traditionally hospitable nations is hampering United Nations efforts to protect millions of uprooted people around the world, according ... More >>
Nuclear Weapons-Grade Uranium Moved From Cz To Ru
Friday, 7 October 2005, 10:14 am | United Nations
As part of the ongoing battle to prevent nuclear proliferation and terrorism, the United Nations atomic watchdog agency has assisted the return from the Czech Republic to Russia of 14 kilogrammes of highly enriched uranium (HEU) that could be used to ... More >>
Action Needed To Prevent Dam Collapse In Cameroon
Friday, 7 October 2005, 10:13 am | United Nations
United Nations experts just back from examining a natural dam in Cameroon’s Northwest province today warned that it could collapse within the next five years unless urgent preventive action is taken. More >>
Young Gather at UN to Review Global Action Plan
Friday, 7 October 2005, 12:23 am | United Nations
Ten years after adopting the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, the United Nations General Assembly gathered young representatives from across the world to evaluate how the plan has fared. More >>
Annan Hails Breakthrough on Security, Dvpt, Rights
Friday, 7 October 2005, 12:18 am | United Nations
Beyond specific commitments ranging from strengthening humanitarian mechanisms to reforming UN management, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today hailed a global mind-change at last month's United Nations World Summit that linked security, development and ... More >>
Palestinian Rights Panel Concern Over Settlements
Friday, 7 October 2005, 12:16 am | United Nations
Israel's recent withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank offers a chance to revive the Road Map peace initiative but its plans to expand West Bank settlements raise particular concern, according to a new report approved by ... More >>
Millions Of Disabled Children Denied Rights
Thursday, 6 October 2005, 4:56 pm | United Nations
Most of the estimated 2.5 million disabled children in Central and Eastern Europe live in segregated institutions and suffer from stigma, discrimination and a denial of human rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today in a new ... More >>
Mixed Scorecard for Peacekeeping Improvents
Thursday, 6 October 2005, 4:01 pm | United Nations
Five years after a high-level panel made recommendations on how to improve peacekeeping, United Nations experts turned in a mixed scorecard on the results of the measures, which ranged from deploying missions to head off conflicts to maintaining trainers ... More >>
Legal Protections For Children Caught In War
Thursday, 6 October 2005, 3:55 pm | United Nations
A higher level of commitment and more effective collaboration between the United Nations and civil society will be needed to enforce the rights of war-affected children in a world where 2 million have been killed, 6 million injured and 250,000 brutally ... More >>
Somalia: Annan Call to Find, Prosecute Killers
Thursday, 6 October 2005, 1:05 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the Somali authorities to bring to justice the gunmen who killed a UN security officer Monday night in the Lower Juba region. More >>
Iraq: Voting Changes Important
Thursday, 6 October 2005, 9:59 am | United Nations
Criticizing changes that the Iraqi Parliament made on Sunday to rules for this month's constitutional referendum as "patently inappropriate," Secretary-General Kofi Annan called today's reversal of the decision "very important," but said the transition ... More >>
DR Congo: Annan Condemns Armed Incursion
Thursday, 6 October 2005, 12:30 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly condemned the recent incursion by armed elements of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). More >>
UN to Eritrea: reverse planned flight restrictions
Wednesday, 5 October 2005, 5:44 pm | United Nations
The Security Council today called on Eritrea to reverse its decision to restrict helicopter flights by the peacekeeping UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) in its air space. More >>
