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UN Envoy On Lebanon To Travel To Syria
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 11:28 am | United Nations
The United Nations special envoy overseeing Syria’s withdrawal from Lebanon will travel to Syria “as soon as possible” for talks with the Syrian President, a UN spokesman said today. More >>
Possible Outcome Of Summit On UN Reform
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 11:23 am | United Nations
The President of the United Nations General Assembly today presented an early vision of what international consensus on development, security, human rights and UN reform might look like when world leaders gather in September to commemorate the Organization’s ... More >>
Marking World Environment Day
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 11:19 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan heralded the celebration of World Environment Day as an opportunity for individuals, businesses and local and national governments to meet the challenges facing cities. More >>
Fréchette To Visit Kosovo
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 10:16 am | United Nations
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette will be travelling to Kosovo, resuming her visits to peacekeeping missions to reinforce Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse for United Nations ... More >>
Japanese Diplomat To Head UN Political Office
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 10:09 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named a veteran Japanese diplomat to head up the newly established UN political office in Timor-Leste. More >>
Latin American Children And Violence
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 10:08 am | United Nations
Latin American children must be taught non-violence and have their rights protected since they experience violence mainly in family homes and Government institutions, according to a regional expert panel assembled by the United Nations Children’s Fund More >>
UN Peacekeeper Succumbs To Wounds After Ambush
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 10:04 am | United Nations
A Nepalese United Nations peacekeeper wounded yesterday in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has died of his wounds, according to a UN spokesman. More >>
Rwandan Refugees Living In Precarious Conditions
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 10:02 am | United Nations
With some 5,400 Rwandans crowded into a Burundian transit centre built for only 800 people, the United Nations refugee agency today said it would take another two or three weeks to add enough sheds and sanitary facilities. More >>
Rights Expert Urges Zimbabwe To Halt Evictions
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 9:59 am | United Nations
With a wave of forced mass evictions reportedly taking place in Zimbabwe, the United Nations expert on housing rights today urged Government authorities to halt the campaign, saying that it could constitute a gross violation of human rights. More >>
UN Officials Say HIV/AIDS Can Be Controlled
Friday, 3 June 2005, 11:30 am | United Nations
Despite setbacks in the struggle against HIV/AIDS, the head of the UN agency charged with combating the deadly virus said he was optimistic that world leaders could still reach major milestones if HIV/AIDS finally received the same attention as other pressing ... More >>
UN Rights Panel Examines Some 1,000 Disappearances
Friday, 3 June 2005, 11:17 am | United Nations
The United Nations working group on involuntary disappearances of people around the world wrapped up its annual session in Bangkok, Thailand after reviewing 1,000 cases from 28 countries, as well as the relevant national legislation. More >>
Annan Calls for Action, Leadership against HIV
Friday, 3 June 2005, 10:23 am | United Nations
Despite years of significant progress, the global battle against the AIDS epidemic is still losing ground, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told high-level officials meeting in New York to review progress made towards combating the deadly ... More >>
UN Human Rights Team Under Fire in NE DR of Congo
Friday, 3 June 2005, 10:21 am | United Nations
A United Nations human rights team was fired on while investigating the reported rape and abduction of women in the troubled Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the UN mission in the country. More >>
No Response to Appeal for Famine Aid for Niger
Friday, 3 June 2005, 10:20 am | United Nations
An emergency United Nations appeal for $16 million to feed millions of people caught in a looming, “silent crisis” and restore farming in Niger has received no response, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today. More >>
Annan Condemns Killing of Lebanese Journalist
Friday, 3 June 2005, 10:19 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has strongly condemned the killing of an outspoken Lebanese journalist whose car blew up in Beirut earlier today. More >>
Poorest Countries Need Aid for Millennium Goals
Friday, 3 June 2005, 10:18 am | United Nations
The world’s poorest and least developed countries need concerted assistance to overcome their socio-economic challenges and reach agreed internationally agreed development gaols by 2015, the United Nations advocate for those countries said. More >>
UN Halts Mine Work in S Afghanistan After Attack
Friday, 3 June 2005, 10:17 am | United Nations
The United Nations has temporarily suspended the clearing of landmines in southern Afghanistan today after two local deminers were killed and five others wounded by a roadside bomb. More >>
UN Envoy to Meet Top Arab League Official on Dafur
Friday, 3 June 2005, 12:12 am | United Nations
The United Nations top envoy in Sudan left the capital, Khartoum, today for the crisis-torn western Darfur region, where he is expected to meet Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa and other high-level League representatives, a UN spokesman said today. More >>
Côte D’ivoire: More Than 40 Villagers Killed
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 10:51 am | United Nations
People in a village in western Côte d’Ivoire fled the area after so- far-unidentified attackers, armed with machetes, killed or wounded more than 100 people overnight, dealing a blow to the reconciliation attempts of the past month, the United Nations ... More >>
Young People Hardest Hit by HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 10:50 am | United Nations
HIV/AIDS is devastating the world’s youth population, with some 5,000 people aged 15 to 24 infected each day, according to a United Nations report written by young people and launched today in New York. More >>
