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Seeds Surer Way To Curb Hunger In Darfur
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 9:15 pm | United Nations
With Seeds Surer Way To Curb Hunger In Darfur Than Food Aid, Un Calls For Funds More >>
Satellite Verifys Peaceful Use Of Nuclear Material
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 8:34 pm | United Nations
The United Nations atomic watchdog agency has started using direct satellite feeds from nuclear facilities to check that sensitive materials are not being diverted for weapons or other non-peaceful uses, executing every day operations previously ... More >>
Political Solution To Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 8:33 pm | United Nations
While the resumption of the United Nations-led Georgian-Abkhaz peace process is encouraging, only "genuine commitment" by both sides will lead to a lasting political settlement to the hostilities between Government and separatist forces in northwest ... More >>
Zimbabwe: UN Report On Recent Evictions
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 8:32 pm | United Nations
A United Nations report on the humanitarian aspects the evictions of some 200,000 people in Zimbabwe from their homes and markets is being sent to the Government of the southern African country today, just two days after Secretary-General Kofi Annan ... More >>
Two UNPeacekeepers In Burundi Repatriated
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 8:31 pm | United Nations
Pursuing its zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeeping operations and mission personnel around the world, the United Nations announced today that two Ethiopian soldiers in Burundi were found in breach of the code of conduct ... More >>
New Chief For UN Internal Oversight Takes Office
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 8:30 pm | United Nations
Hailed by a senior United Nations official as a remarkable woman of vital integrity, the world body's new chief watchdog met the press for the first time in her new capacity today, saying she was pleased to be at the UN during a time of such far-reaching ... More >>
New UN Operation Against Rwandan Hutu Rebels
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 8:30 pm | United Nations
Backed by air power in a major new operation code-named "Thunder Storm," United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today launched their third offensive in just over two weeks to oust Rwandan Hutu militia who daily ... More >>
UN Experts On Darfur Sanctions To Leave For Region
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 8:29 pm | United Nations
A four-member expert panel appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to monitor an arms embargo in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region will be leaving soon for the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa where it is to be based. More >>
UN-Backed Internet Tourism Domain Preserves Names
Thursday, 21 July 2005, 8:28 pm | United Nations
Countries around the world will have a priority right to register their country, cities, and place names on an Internet Top Level Domain (TLD) travel registry under a new United Nations-backed tourism initiative aimed at resolving the problems arising ... More >>
Kosovo: Donor Funding Needed For Mine-Clearance Op
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 2:23 pm | United Nations
Six years after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) drove Yugoslav troops out of Kosovo amid ethnic fighting between Albanians and Serbs, unexploded mines are still claiming victims in the United Nation-administered province and continued ... More >>
6,000 Myanmarese Living In ‘Deplorable Conditions’
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 2:22 pm | United Nations
More than 6,000 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic minority are living “in extremely risky and deplorably squalid conditions” on tidal river flats in Bangladesh, whose government has so far not replied to urgent international appeals to move them to ... More >>
Killing Of Journalists In Brazil & Haiti Condemned
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 2:21 pm | United Nations
Condemning the recent murder of journalists in Brazil and Haiti, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has yet again stressed that an attack on reporters is an attack on society itself. More >>
Civil Society Meets On Ways To Prevent Conflict
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 1:35 pm | United Nations
Responding to Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s call for input from the world at large on ways to build world peace, some 600 international civil society leaders will gather at United Nations Headquarter in New York tomorrow for conference aimed at implementing ... More >>
UN Makes Progress On AIDS Education Peacekeepers
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 2:16 pm | United Nations
With nearly 80,000 personnel serving in United Nations peacekeeping missions, UN agencies have made strides in educating mission personnel about preventing HIV infection, but troop contributing countries must do their part, senior UN officials said today. More >>
Nepal: Envoy Calls For Peaceful Return To Order
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 2:14 pm | United Nations
With Nepal facing a "very serious crisis," senior United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said that a solution is "not beyond reach," and urged all political forces to work together to restore constitutional order and multi-party ... More >>
Existing Agreements Key For Combating Small Arms
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 2:12 pm | United Nations
A meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York on progress to curb the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons under a 2001 agreement has wrapped up with UN Member States stressing the need to cooperate on combating the scourge, which ... More >>
Ending Discrimination Against Gambian Women
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 2:10 pm | United Nations
Though Gambia was the first West African country to appoint a woman Vice President more than a decade ago, the Gambian Government has expressed certain reservations about equality for women, based on the perceived restrictions of culture and religion, ... More >>
International Criminal Court Briefed On Darfur
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:43 am | United Nations
The top United Nations envoy for Sudan is headed to The Hague, to meet with the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is investigating 51 people suspected of committing war crimes in the war-torn Darfur region. More >>
Peace Deal Between Indonesia And Separatists
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:40 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today warmly welcomed the preliminary peace agreement reached yesterday between the Government of Indonesia and the separatist Free Aceh Movement, intended to end nearly 30 years of conflict in the province. More >>
UNICEF Speeds Supplies To Hurricane-Hit Grenada
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 12:38 am | United Nations
In the wake of destruction caused by Hurricane Emily, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) rushed supplies to Grenada today in a bid to help prevent the spread of disease. More >>
