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Annan Calls For Broad Burden-Sharing In Iraq
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 1:02 pm | United Nations
Opening an international conference on Iraq in Brussels today, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the international community to share more broadly the burden of the reconstruction and stabilization of the war-torn country in a way that has a ... More >>
Annan: No Effort Must Be Spared In HIV/AIDS Fight
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 1:00 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on donors to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to make every effort to fund and coordinate implementation of anti-HIV/AIDS programmes so that help can be delivered speedily ... More >>
First-Ever Hearings With Civil Society Groups
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 10:57 am | United Nations
The views and opinions of civil society can help shape the discussions under way for a world summit in September commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations, the President of the General Assembly said today. More >>
UN Calls For Peace In Burundi
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 10:42 am | United Nations
The United Nations mission in Burundi has called for “an immediate end o all criminal and barbaric acts” which have occurred as the African country prepares for legislative elections early next month. More >>
UN Heads To Uganda For Talks On Transit Routes
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 10:23 am | United Nations
Jan Pronk, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special representative for Sudan, will be in Kampala for day-long meetings with senior Ugandan officials discussing a range of issues, in particular UNMIS deployment of troops and equipment. For practical ... More >>
Malnutrition Found In Ethiopian Refugee Camps
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 9:57 am | United Nations
Critical malnutrition is widespread in two camps that house an estimated 50,000 Sudanese refugees in the southwestern part of Ethiopia, according to a survey by United Nation agencies and the Ethiopian Government, and the UN food agency is urgently transporting ... More >>
UN Helps Refugees Return Home To DR Of Congo
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 9:55 am | United Nations
Reversing the usual refugee flow, the United Nations refugee agency has repatriated more than 40 people to their homes in the western Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after they had lived in Angola for nearly 30 years. More >>
Establishing Legal Rights For Mentally Ill
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 9:48 am | United Nations
As part an ongoing effort to encourage legal protection for the more than 450 million people in the world with mental, neurological or behavioural disorders, the United Nations health agency today announced the publication of book to guide countries ... More >>
Voter Registration In DR Of Congo
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 9:45 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the peaceful start of voter registration this week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) capital, Kinshasa, paving the way for elections in the vast African country for the first ... More >>
Liberia's Diamond And Timber Export Sanctions
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 9:31 am | United Nations
Expressing broad criticism of Liberia's Transitional Government, the United Nations Security Council today unanimously extended for six months the existing sanctions against the West African country's diamond exports, which it said have been increasing, ... More >>
UNAIDS Estimates Funding Needs To Fight Pandemic
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 9:15 am | United Nations
The developing world will need $22 billion in 2008 to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, according to new estimates by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). More >>
Fate Of Uzbek Asylum Seekers In Kyrgyzstan
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 12:10 am | United Nations
Reacting to reports about the possible forced repatriation of Uzbek asylum seekers who fled the recent military crackdown in their country to take shelter in a rough camp in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today ... More >>
Young people to recreate UN Charter signing
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 12:04 am | United Nations
A re-enactment of the signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945 will be a highlight of a United Nations youth gathering in Wellington on June 24-26. More >>
Weapons Handed In By Electoral Candidates
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 5:48 pm | United Nations
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan ( UNAMA) has welcomed the news that several candidates are handing up their weapons so as to qualify under electoral law to run for seats in the lower house of the National Assembly, called the Wolesi ... More >>
Murder Of Communist Party Leader In Lebanon
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 5:46 pm | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly condemned the murder of Mr. George Hawi, a long-time leader of the Lebanese Communist Party, in a bomb blast in Beirut. More >>
'Once-In-A Generation' Chance For UN Reform
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 5:44 pm | United Nations
The United Nations' 60th anniversary summit of more than 170 heads of Government in September offers a "once-in-a generation" opportunity to make the world body more efficient at tackling global problems by adopting the reforms he has proposed, UN ... More >>
Banditry, Looting Continues In Darfur
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 5:27 pm | United Nations
Looting and banditry, including attacks by armed groups, continued to be reported in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan, the United Nations said today. More >>
World Must Do More To Protect Civilians
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 5:25 pm | United Nations
There is little hope of stopping the deliberate targeting of civilians and relief workers in armed conflict without the political will to tackle impunity, to provide reliable crisis funding and devise better ways to report rights violations, the United ... More >>
Consolidation Of Afghan Refugee Camps In Pakistan
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 1:45 pm | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency and the Government of Pakistan are stepping up efforts to consolidate Afghan refugee camps in the country, announcing that two camps in Balochistan province will close in addition to those in the troubled tribal belt ... More >>
Indonesia: UN, Govt Plan Green Tsunami Reconstr'n
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 1:42 pm | United Nations
In the wake of the devastation caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami in the Indonesian province of Aceh, the United Nations environmental agency, along with the Indonesian environmental ministry, opened a three-day meeting today in an attempt to ensure ... More >>
