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Report on Global, Regional Response post Tsumani
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 11:56 am | United Nations
Ahead of tomorrow's address to the Economic and Social Council by former United States President Bill Clinton, United Nations Special Envoy overseeing recovery efforts from December's devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has ... More >>
IAEA Seeks to Lessen Risk of Terror, Proliferation
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 11:54 am | United Nations
In a bid to prevent nuclear materials from falling into the hands of terrorists and to pre-empt weapons proliferation, the United Nations atomic watchdog agency joined major national players today at a three-day meeting in Moscow aimed at strengthening ... More >>
Relief Assets More Efficient if Coordinated by UN
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 11:52 am | United Nations
With the humanitarian response system often unable to pull together the right combination of resources and expertise in a timely manner, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling for improved coordination, under the UN, of emergency assistance ... More >>
Annan Condemns Latest Baghdad Suicide Bombing
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 11:46 am | United Nations
Horrified by the deaths of a large number of children in the latest suicide bombing in Baghdad today, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan repeated his utter condemnation of the unjustifiable violence and deliberate targeting of civilians ... More >>
World Heritage Sites Removed From Endangered List
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 11:45 am | United Nations
Three United Nations World Heritage sites – the fabled city of Timbuktu in Mali, the Greco-Roman archaeological site of Butrint in Albania, and Sangay National Park in Ecuador – have been removed from the endangered list thanks to improvements in ... More >>
UN World Court Decides Niger, Benin Border Dispute
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 10:09 am | United Nations
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) – the United Nations' principal judicial organ for settling disputes between States – has awarded Niger15 islands at the centre of a four-decade border dispute with Benin. It awarded Benin ownership of the remaining ... More >>
Council Condemns Massacre in Eastern DR of Congo
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 12:56 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today condemned "with the utmost firmness" the weekend massacre of dozens of people in a village in the eastern South Kivu region in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and called on the UN mission ... More >>
Dysfunctional Judiciary Impeding Liberia Progress
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 12:06 am | United Nations
Replacing Liberia's "dysfunctional judicial system" is of the highest priority in creating a good environment for human rights, establishing the rule of law, fighting corruption and building a durable peace in the West African country emerging from ... More >>
UN States Have Treaty Obligations on Niger Famine
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 12:04 am | United Nations
With 3.6 million people in Niger facing malnutrition and the international response being "totally insufficient," the United Nations expert on the right to food today said that under international human rights treaties States Parties were obliged to ... More >>
Need to Curb Portable Missiles, Other Light Arms
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 12:02 am | United Nations
From portable missile attacks on civilian aircraft to the deaths of thousands from light arms fire each year to massive population displacements, United Nations officials are stressing a litany of concomitant ills as Member States seek to strengthen measures ... More >>
Annan to Undergo Operation to Repair Skiing Injury
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 12:01 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will undergo an operation to repair a right shoulder injury on Friday, his spokesman has announced. More >>
Cooperation Vital on Benefits, Risk of GM Trees
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 12:00 am | United Nations
With genetic modification (GM) of trees already entering the commercial phase, international cooperation is essential to weigh potential risks, such as plantation failure, against anticipated benefits, such as resistance to diseases, according to a new United Nations ... More >>
UN's Task Is To Prevent Human Suffering
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 11:56 am | United Nations
The Security Council's caseload of war-torn countries has spotlighted the need for the United Nations to pre-empt crises and to ensure that its peace-building efforts include long-term engagement and ways to help strengthen institutions that provide ... More >>
UN Panel Requests Aid To Move Burundi From Relief
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 11:50 am | United Nations
A United Nations panel mandated to assess Burundi's requirements as the country emerges from decades of ethnic conflict says it needs adequate assistance to move its socio-economic status from needing relief to promoting sustainable development, if peace is to last. More >>
Slaying Of 39 By Unknown Assailants
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 11:39 am | United Nations
Armed men attacked a village in the eastern South Kivu region of the country last weekend, locking people in their homes before burning them down and killing nearly 40 villagers, mainly women and children, the United Nations Organization Mission ... More >>
Bosnian Coffee Ritual Honours Massacre Victims
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 11:09 am | United Nations
Some 1,700 small white cups containing freshly brewed coffee stand on a bed of soil in the Visitors’ Lobby of United Nations Headquarters in New York this week, a poignant memorial to the thousands of Bosnians slaughtered in the Security Council-proclaimed ... More >>
Chad: In Race Against Rain
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 10:22 am | United Nations
In a race against time, with rains setting in and flooding hindering movement in southern Chad, the United Nations refugee agency hopes to start as early as tomorrow the weeks-long relocation of 10,000 needy refugees from the neighbouring Central ... More >>
Uzbekistan: UN Rights Chief Again Calls For Probe
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 9:59 am | United Nations
Citing credible eyewitness testimony “strongly suggesting” that Uzbek military and security forces committed grave human rights violations which could amount to a “mass killing” in May, the United Nations human rights agency today reiterated calls for ... More >>
Annan Hails Civil Society Participation
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 9:56 am | United Nations
The support of civil society is indispensable in all efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told an international conference today held under the auspices of the United Nations Committee the Exercise of the Inalienable ... More >>
Mandela Becomes UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 9:54 am | United Nations
Former South African President Nelson Mandela was today named Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization More >>
