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Senegalese President wins UN cultural peace prize
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 8:36 pm | United Nations
13 September 2005 – President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, co-founder of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), today won the United Nations cultural agency's annual peace prize, chosen by an international jury presided over by former United ... More >>
Pacific police, UN anti-AIDS programme tackle HIV
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 8:33 pm | United Nations
13 September 2005 – With Pacific Island nations increasing their provision of personnel for United Nations peacekeeping operations, the UN anti-AIDS programme today joined forces with police chiefs from 21 Pacific island nations across Polynesia, Micronesia ... More >>
Innovation To Help The Poor
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 4:49 pm | United Nations
A high-level meeting of political and business leaders and other policy makers at United Nations Headquarters in New York today stressed the importance of using technology as a way to promote development and improve the lives of people around the world. More >>
Foreign Direct Investment Distorts African Dev't
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 3:01 pm | United Nations
The persistent colonial legacy of relying on foreign direct investment has distorted African economic development and locked in low value-added, limited reinvested earnings and volatile inflows, yet it is being seen as an answer to today's problems, the ... More >>
Annan Calls Summit Draft Good
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 2:56 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the final draft of a declaration for the World Summit opening tomorrow More >>
Annan And Bush Hold Wide-Ranging Talks
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 1:19 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today held wide-ranging discussions with United States President George W. Bush at United Nations Headquarters in New York on the eve of what is expected to the largest ever summit of world leaders. More >>
Mission In Ethiopia, Eritrea Extended
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 9:32 am | United Nations
In a unanimous vote on the five-year-old UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), the 15-member Council also increased by 10 the military observer force, numbering 214 as of the end of July, and called on both Governments to implement without delay ... More >>
Council Extends Mandate Of Mission In Afghanistan
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 9:27 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today voted unanimously to extend the mandate of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan for a year from the middle of next month and called upon UN Member States to commit more personnel, equipment ... More >>
Annan steps up efforts to secure Summit document
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 7:57 pm | United Nations
With less than two days left before the United Nations hosts the largest ever gathering of global leaders, and the Summit document still mired in discord, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today intensified his diplomatic efforts, postponing a news conference ... More >>
UN: Talks on summit outcome continue
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 7:55 pm | United Nations
The General Assembly this evening wound down the work of its current session as intensive talks continued on a draft United Nations reform plan slated for consideration by national leaders gathering at the world body later this week. More >>
UN probe Lebanese assassination goes to Syria
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 7:53 pm | United Nations
The head of the United Nations inquiry into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri arrived in Syria today to continue the probe he launched after an earlier mission found Lebanon's own investigation seriously flawed and Syria ... More >>
Antarctica plagued by over-fishing, tourism, ozone
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 7:50 pm | United Nations
Substantial increases in illegal fishing, tourism, bioprospecting, climate change and depletion of the ozone continue to pose major challenges to the Antarctic, and governments should continue to make major efforts to secure the area as a natural ... More >>
Annan Pleased At Israeli Withdrawal From Gaza
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 1:04 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced the hope that Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, “and the cooperation and coordination between Israelis and Palestinians which made it possible,” can lead to the revitalization of the Road Map plan that ... More >>
UN Population Fund, work on reproductive health
Monday, 12 September 2005, 8:35 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) activities on behalf of women’s reproductive health has drawn it into providing and expanding anti-HIV training for Latin American and Caribbean law enforcement, preventing or treating maternal birth injuries in ... More >>
Annan ‘very concerned’ accord may not be reached
Monday, 12 September 2005, 8:32 pm | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned today that he was “very concerned” that agreement might not be reached in time on a draft document for next week’s World Summit at United Nations Headquarters in New York, and he urged “more give and take” from Member ... More >>
Deaths rise in Gulf of Aden, urgent action needed
Monday, 12 September 2005, 8:30 pm | United Nations
The escalating death toll and harrowing survivors’ tales in the Gulf of Aden have prompted the head of the United Nations refugee agency to call today for international action to stem the flow of desperate people crossing from Somalia to Yemen in rickety ... More >>
Collective action only solution: poverty, HIV/AID
Monday, 12 September 2005, 8:27 pm | United Nations
The problems of a world where the poor are increasingly poor, human rights are ignored, HIV/AIDS and malaria claim millions of lives, and inequality proliferates, will only be solved through a cooperation of civil society, governments, and local leaders, ... More >>
Collaborative effort to save remaining great apes
Monday, 12 September 2005, 8:25 pm | United Nations
With habitat loss, disease, hunting and illegal trade driving the world’s remaining great apes to the brink of extinction, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for cooperation by governments, businesses, conservation groups and ... More >>
Sudan: assaults mean nightmares, suicidal impulses
Monday, 12 September 2005, 8:22 pm | United Nations
The Janjaweed Arab militia's sexual and other assaults on the people of Darfur, western Sudan, have resulted not only in physical injuries, but a range of psychological traumas, including suicidal impulses and nightmares, the United Nations Children's ... More >>
UN action plan to mitigate extreme weather, Europe
Monday, 12 September 2005, 8:17 pm | United Nations
With extreme weather such as severe flooding, drought and heat waves blighting Europe, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and its regional members are drawing up an action plan at a nine-day session currently under way in Heidelberg, ... More >>
