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Terrorist Bombings An 'Attack On Humanity Itself'
Friday, 8 July 2005, 9:21 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today deplored "the atrocious bombings" that rocked London's public transport system as "an attack on humanity itself," and urged that such violence not be allowed to derail efforts to combat poverty and address ... More >>
Kurds Seek Greater UN Development Assistance
Friday, 8 July 2005, 9:19 am | United Nations
Iraqi Kurds are seeking further United Nations assistance in the development of the Kurdistan region of the country. More >>
Annan: London Terrorist Attacks "Barbaric"
Friday, 8 July 2005, 8:41 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today joined G8 summit leaders in condemning the “barbaric attacks” that rocked London’s public transport system, declaring a united resolve to fight terrorism until victory. More >>
Situations In Africa Key Topics For Security Cl
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 3:11 pm | United Nations
The Security Council will devote a considerable amount of its time this month to various situations on the African continent, and will also spotlight the Council's role in humanitarian crises, the new President of the 15-nation body said today. More >>
UN Urges G8 Leaders to Step Up on HUnger, Climate
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 11:51 am | United Nations
UN Urges G8 Leaders to Step Up to the Plate on African Hunger, Global Warming More >>
Cambodia: Call to Cancel Concession on Native Land
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 11:50 am | United Nations
A United Nations human rights official has called on the Government of Cambodia to cancel a land concession to a Chinese-backed company, saying it disregards the interests of indigenous people living there and violates both the law and human rights. More >>
More Than 1.5 Million Asian Children AIDS Orphans
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 11:46 am | United Nations
More than 1.5 million children in Asia and the Pacific have been orphaned by AIDS and many more are living with ill and dying parents, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has told an international congress on AIDS that wound up its sessions ... More >>
Millennium Goals Have Unprecedented Support: Annan
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 11:45 am | United Nations
For the first time developed and developing countries have accepted their responsibilities for reducing poverty, while the targets for reducing vast socio-economic ills have garnered unprecedented political support, giving the world a make-or-break moment ... More >>
Annan Sees Contest to Host Olympics As Good Omen
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 11:38 am | United Nations
Congratulating the United Kingdom on having its capital chosen to host the 2012 summer Olympic Games, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said the intensity and drama in the competition was “a good omen for friendly international competition ... More >>
International Tourism Grows After 2001-2003 Slump
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 11:33 am | United Nations
People are regaining "the lust for travel" after the combined blows of terrorism, a weak economy and epidemics battered the tourist industry in 2001-2003, with pent-up demand continuing to be released as consumer confidence rises and the ... More >>
Just Miles From G8, UN Holds C8 Children’s Summit
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 11:32 am | United Nations
Almost within earshot of the G8 summit of leaders of the world’s richest countries, the United Nations has held a C8 summit of children from some of the world’s poorest states with direct experience of HIV/AIDS, child labour, poor education, poverty ... More >>
UN IP Agency Provides Books to Child Inventors
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 11:31 am | United Nations
Combining facts with fun, games and graphics, the United Nations intellectual property agency is producing new books for children showing them how to proceed from ideas, to IP protection, to commercialization of their inventions as the young “creators ... More >>
Europe-Central Asia Must Act on Child Violence
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 11:29 am | United Nations
With 1,300 children under age 14 dying in homicides or assaults every year in the European Region alone, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on Governments, UN agencies, professionals, civil society, communities, families and ... More >>
Ivorian Parties Must Comply With Peace Timetable
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 11:27 am | United Nations
With the Government of Cote d’Ivoire and opposition leaders having reached an agreement on a timeline for implementing a stalled peace plan, the United Nations Security Council today demanded that all Ivorian parties and signatories “scrupulously comply” ... More >>
Marking 10th Anniversary of Srebrenica Massacre
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 11:24 am | United Nations
As part of the United Nations commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica, Mark Malloch Brown, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Chief of Staff, next week will head to the town that was the site of a massacre of Muslim men and boys ... More >>
Kyrgyzstan Seeks Urgent Aid After Flooding
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 11:23 am | United Nations
The Government of the Kyrgyzstan has requested urgent aid including blankets, bedding, tents, diesel, fuel, medicine and food to meet its immediate needs after flooding and mudflows destroyed houses, bridges and highways, the UN Office for the Coordination ... More >>
WHO Thanks UK for Millions to Wipe Out Polio
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 12:47 am | United Nations
United Nations health agency chief Lee Jong-wook today thanked the United Kingdom for a three-year contribution of $105 million to cover anti-polio campaigns, with an immediate payout of the first $35 million, and he appealed to the international ... More >>
Donor Fatigue Could Lead to Deaths in Ethiopia
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 12:46 am | United Nations
Despite the enthusiasm surrounding the last weekend’s Live 8 concerts in the run up to the G8 summit meeting, The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that donors are showing increasingly worrying signs of “compassion fatigue” over ... More >>
UN Suspends Somali Food Shipments After Hijacking
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 11:59 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended all shipments of humanitarian assistance to Somalia following the hijacking of a chartered vessel carrying food aid for 28,000 tsunami survivors, the first time in the agency’s history that a ship ... More >>
Kazakhstan Urged Not to Return Uzbek Activist
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 11:57 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today urged authorities in Kazakhstan not to forcibly return a well-known Uzbek human rights activist, who was arrested along with his family yesterday in the Kazakh capital, Almaty, after having fled there following ... More >>
