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Manchester U Goes Into Overtime To Support UNICEF
Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 12:50 am | United Nations
The Manchester United football club today announced a new four-year pledge to enhance the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Sport for Development work aimed at incorporating the power and potential of sport into its country programmes around the world, UNICEF ... More >>
Africa Call For Strengthening Of Private Developmt
Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 12:48 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Advisory Panel on ways to assist the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) recommended significantly increasing international support for the initiative and unleashing the continent's tremendous development ... More >>
UN Stresses Regional Groups' Role In Peacebuilding
Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 12:46 am | United Nations
Regional and other intergovernmental organizations are increasingly important, even key partners, for the ultimate success in dealing with the challenges of peace and security, participants in the 6th High-Level Meeting between the United Nations, ... More >>
Fund Seeks Access To Dying Zimbabwean Children
Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 12:44 am | United Nations
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), addressing the demolition of housing in Zimbabwe that has left hundreds of thousands homeless, today expressed horror that displaced children there are dying of treatable respiratory infections and evicted ... More >>
Food Programme Commends Japan Commitment To Africe
Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 12:42 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a 1.5 billion yen ($13.6 million) aid package from the Japanese Government and said this latest contribution reflected Japan's growing role in efforts to assist the millions of people affected ... More >>
Annan Commends Resumption Of Six-Party Korea Talks
Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 12:41 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan warmly welcomed the resumption of the six-party talks in Beijing on the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea's (DPRK) nuclear weapons programme and said he would continue to work closely with the parties on this challenging set ... More >>
Joint UN-Afghan Election Board Condemns Murder
Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 10:51 am | United Nations
“The Joint Electoral Management Body however condemns in the strongest terms any violence against people working to bring democracy and stability to Afghanistan,” JEMB International Spokesperson Bronwyn Curran said, noting that the latest murder ... More >>
UN’s Hiv/Aids Africa Envoy Questions G8 Summit
Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 10:49 am | United Nations
The United Nations Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa has questioned the results of the recent G8 Summit when it came to addressing the AIDS pandemic and he has called for the creation of an international women’s agency. More >>
Train Local Communities To Prevent Forest Fires
Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 10:23 am | United Nations
Mediterranean countries could save lives and billions of euros every year if they better trained and mobilized communities in preventing and controlling forest fires, which destroy up to 700,000 hectares annually in the region, the United Nations Food ... More >>
Closer Cooperation Between UN, Regional Bodies
Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 10:16 am | United Nations
Acknowledging that recent challenges have eroded confidence in the ability of multilateral institutions to respond, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said “moments of crisis carry seeds of opportunity,” offering the UN and regional organizations ... More >>
Côte d’Ivoire: UN Forces On Alert Following Attack
Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 10:13 am | United Nations
With elections in Côte d’Ivoire barely three months away, the United Nations 6,500-strong force has been put on alert and is sending military units to help restore calm after an attack by unidentified assailants on a Gendarme brigade and police station in ... More >>
UN-Backed Workshop Aims To Help Poor In Bangladesh
Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 9:51 am | United Nations
Aiming to outline a new strategy for United Nations-backed development projects in Bangladesh, more than one hundred national experts and representatives of UN agencies wrapped up a series of roundtables and workshops today in Dhaka the capital, focused ... More >>
Annan Hopes Britain Will Avoid Racial Profiling
Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 9:50 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he hoped that Britain, in the face of the current wave of terrorist bombings, would be able to continue its past policy of avoiding racial profiling. More >>
Increase In Refugee Returns From Tanzania
Monday, 25 July 2005, 9:57 am | United Nations
Facing a dramatic increase in the number of Congolese returning on their own from camps in Tanzania to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations refugee agency said today it was considering facilitating such returns by providing ... More >>
Awareness Can End Intolerance Towards Refugees
Monday, 25 July 2005, 9:49 am | United Nations
The new United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees today called on governments, civil society and the media to step up their efforts to encourage open-mindedness and combat radicalism on all fronts, as it was becoming increasingly difficult to ... More >>
Liberia: UN Agencies Open Registration Centres
Monday, 25 July 2005, 9:47 am | United Nations
With 150,000 Liberian refugees having already returned home spontaneously, and many more expected to follow suit since a peace agreement in 2003 ended 15 years of civil war, United Nations agencies are helping to set up a string of registration points ... More >>
Human Traffickers In Kosovo Convicted With UN Help
Friday, 22 July 2005, 3:20 pm | United Nations
In the severest ever human trafficking sentence in Kosovo, three Albanian citizens have been jailed for up to 12 years for luring young women to the United Nations-administered province with false promises of legitimate work, only to try to force them into prostitution. More >>
Renewed Violence Affects Thousands in Eastern DRC
Friday, 22 July 2005, 3:18 pm | United Nations
Some of the 65,000 civilians displaced in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during renewed clashes between Government soldiers and armed militias have been slowly returning to the area since United Nations peacekeepers have been ... More >>
Civil Society Forum On Conflict Prevention Ends
Friday, 22 July 2005, 3:15 pm | United Nations
As representatives of civil society groups from around the world wrapped up their landmark conference on conflict prevention, a senior United Nations official told some 600 civic leaders gathered at UN Headquarters in New York that development must ... More >>
UN Refurbishes Napoleonic Era Court
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 9:19 pm | United Nations
A Sierra Leonean court that was established in 1819 for the trial of ex-combatants after the Napoleonic war in England but was burned down 180 years later by rebels in the West African country's civil war has been renovated and refurbished by the ... More >>
