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UN Agencies Consult With Consumer Groups
Thursday, 9 June 2005, 10:17 am | United Nations
The Geneva-based UN World Health Organization WHO is hosting this week a gathering of consumer associations from 25 countries to discuss ways they can work together to help improve national food quality and safety standards. More >>
Latin American Forests Depleted By Cattle Ranching
Thursday, 9 June 2005, 10:11 am | United Nations
In the first-ever detailed projection of such changes, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization FAO estimates that, up to 2010, forest cover in Central America will be reduced by 2.4 million hectares or 1.6 percent annually. In South America, forest ... More >>
UNESCO Chief Condemns Murder Of Journalist
Thursday, 9 June 2005, 10:04 am | United Nations
Grave concern over an increase in attacks on journalists in Bangladesh More >>
UN War Crimes Tribunals Cite Obstacles To Work
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 11:03 am | United Nations
Key indictees still at large, overburdened dockets, and lack of predictable funding are highlighted as obstacles in the final phases of the work of the United Nations tribunals prosecuting war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in separate ... More >>
Oz Plan To Boost Spending On Hiv/Aids Commended
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 11:00 am | United Nations
A Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS and other diseases initiated by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed Australia's plan to allocate a further $A50 million (approximately $US38.2 million) to the fund over three years. More >>
Tour To Eliminate Sexual Abuse In Peacekeeping
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:58 am | United Nations
Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette is on her way to Burundi from Kosovo, continuing her visits to peacekeeping missions to reinforce Secretary-General Kofi Annan's zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse for United Nations personnel. More >>
People Displaced By Fighting In SW Colombia
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:57 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today expressed its deep concern about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Nariño region along Colombia's Pacific Coast, where clashes between armed groups are forcing local residents to flee their homes. More >>
UN Welcomes Relocation Of Uzbek Refugees
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:51 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed the relocation of Uzbek asylum seekers further into the interior of Kyrgyzstan and away from a border camp in which they had been living since violence erupted in the Uzbek town of Andijan last month. More >>
Environmental Atlas Tracks Dramatic Earth Changes
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:49 am | United Nations
The dramatic, often damaging environmental changes sweeping planet Earth are brought into sharp focus in a new atlas launched by the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ). More >>
Recommendations On Increasing Support For Africa
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:45 am | United Nations
Chief Emeka Anyaoku, chair of the panel, brought the recommendations to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who appointed the 13 members last July More >>
Afghanistan: Violence Against Election Workers
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:44 am | United Nations
With parliamentary, provincial and district elections in Afghanistan just months away, the United Nations mission in the country has condemned any type of violence aimed at derailing the electoral process. More >>
Annan Condemns ‘Senseless Deaths’ In Nepal Blast
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:43 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today condemned the “senseless deaths” of dozens of people in the explosion that tore through a passenger bus in southern Nepal, and called for an immediate end to “such utterly reprehensible tactics” that ... More >>
Int Criminal Court Opens Investigation Into Darfur
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:42 am | United Nations
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ) has decided to open an investigation into the situation in Darfur, Sudan, following the United Nations Security Council’s referral of 51 names of people blamed for war crimes in the conflict ... More >>
Kyrgyzstan: Pledge Not To Deport Asylum-Seekers
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:41 am | United Nations
Despite rumours of forced repatriation, the government of Kyrgyzstan has reassured the United Nations refugee agency that it would meet its international obligations to shelter refugees who fled the violence in neighbouring Uzbekistan. More >>
Annan Condemns Deadly Attack On Western Town
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:37 am | United Nations
The Secretary-General urged the Ivorian authorities to conduct a full enquiry and ensure that the perpetrators were quickly brought to justice, a UN spokesman said, adding that a total 65 other victims had been wounded since the attacks started Monday ... More >>
Humane Treatment Of Ethnic Minorities In Laos
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:27 am | United Nations
Secretary General Kofi Annan today welcomed the humane treatment extended by Laotian Government to the ethnic minorities who emerged from remote areas over the weekend, and he stressed the readiness of the United Nations to provide humanitarian assistance ... More >>
Massacres Of Civilians In Western Côte D'ivoire
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 12:31 am | United Nations
The United Nations Security Council today strongly condemned the recent massacres of civilians in the western Côte d'Ivoire town of Duékoué, and urged Ivorian authorities to conduct an inquiry into the killings immediately so the perpetrators can be brought ... More >>
Annan Appoints Special Envoy For Review Of Kosovo
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 11:46 am | United Nations
Ambassador Kai Eide appointed Permanent Representative of Norway to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as his Special Envoy to carry out a comprehensive review of Kosovo. More >>
Council Extends Mandate Of UN Peacekeeping Mission
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 11:43 am | United Nations
The Security Council extended for three weeks the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire and the French troops supporting it, “with a view to renewing it for seven months” and raising the possibility that it might expand the UN operation ... More >>
Two Billion People Need Access To Basic Sanitation
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 11:39 am | United Nations
Nearly 2 billion people must be provided safe water and basic sanitation by 2015 to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the number lacking access, the UN public health and children’s agencies said today. More >>
