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Hit Humanitarian Game Has One Million Players
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 10:49 am | United Nations
Launched by the United Nations only six weeks ago, the first video game designed to teach children about global hunger has surpassed all expectations in the gaming world by reaching more than one million players in 40 countries. More >>
UN Intellectual Property Watchdog Launches Forum
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 10:47 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today launched a two-week online forum designed to provide unique opportunity for all to engage and shape the emerging debate on the value of intellectual property protection in ... More >>
Stephanides fired for Oil-For-Food Misconduct
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 10:45 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to immediately dismiss Joseph Stephanides, a United Nations official who linked to a tainted procurement process during the oil-for-food scandal, a spokesman for the world body announced today. More >>
Repatriation Programme Helps 100,000 Afghans Home
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 10:40 am | United Nations
More than 100,000 Afghan refugees have returned home from Pakistan since the UN refugee agency’s voluntary repatriation programme for 2005 started in March. More >>
UN Envoy on Arbitrary Executions to Visit Nigeria
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 10:39 am | United Nations
The United Nations expert on summary or arbitrary executions has scheduled a 13-day fact-finding tour of Nigeria, starting later this month, at the invitation of the Nigerian government. More >>
Afghanistan: UN “Outraged” by Attack on Mosque
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 10:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has expressed shock and outrage following today’s suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Kandahar during a memorial service for a slain Islamic cleric. “While the number of casualties is not yet fully known, this ... More >>
Envoy Calls for Peaceful, Fair Burundi Elections
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 12:40 am | United Nations
The United Nations envoy for Burundi today reminded political leaders in that country of their responsibilities in ensuring that Friday’s long-delayed municipal elections were peaceful and fair. More >>
Children in European and Institutions Vulnerable
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 12:37 am | United Nations
The estimated 1 million children who go from broken homes to residential institutions in Europe and Central Asia are “desperately vulnerable” to violence that is only rarely reported, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says in a new report. More >>
Security Council Extends Haiti Mission
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 11:54 am | United Nations
Determining that the situation in Haiti continues to threaten international peace and security, the United Nations Security Council this afternoon extended the mandate of the UN mission to that country until 24 June, stating its intention to extend ... More >>
Iraqi Request for UN Assistance on Constitution
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 11:34 am | United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today that Iraqi authorities have officially requested assistance from the United Nations in drafting and building consensus around the country’s new constitution. More >>
Food Relief Agency to Sponsor World Hunger Walk
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 10:47 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will co-sponsor the second annual global walk against child hunger, with participants in over 90 countries across 24 time zones raising money to help fund school feeding projects worldwide. More >>
UN Closes Congolese Sites As Refugees Return Home
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 10:45 am | United Nations
With the assistance of the United Nations refugee agency, the final convoy of Angolan refugees has returned home from a southern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ending a refugee program that has run for 20 years. More >>
Iraqi Govt Agrees to Move Iranian Kurd Refugees
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 10:44 am | United Nations
The Iraqi Government has agreed to move 3,100 Iranian Kurd refugees, who have been stuck in harsh and dangerous conditions near Ramadi, to a safer area in the north, the United Nations refugee agency said today. More >>
Project to Restore Veterinary Services in Iraq
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 10:15 am | United Nations
With years of upheavals and neglect having damaged the farming sectors that provide major sources of protein for the Iraqi diet, the United Nations agricultural agency today has launched a project to benefit nearly 5 million people by restoring urgently ... More >>
Rwandan Refugees Moved Without Notice
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 10:03 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency today expressed concern over the surprise relocation over the weekend of thousands of Rwandan asylum-seekers by Burundian authorities to an inadequately equipped northern transit centre in their post-conflict Great ... More >>
Annan Urges World Leaders: Break Nuclear Deadlock
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 10:02 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has challenged world leaders to “move beyond rhetoric” and break the years-long deadlock over how to tackle nuclear arms and their proliferation. More >>
Council Condemns Sexual Abuses by Peacekeepers
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 12:39 am | United Nations
The Security Council today strongly condemned all acts of sexual abuse and exploitation committed by UN peacekeeping personnel, underlining the importance of maintaining zero tolerance for such abuses and advocating their investigation and punishment. More >>
Political Affairs Chief in Cyprus, Greece, Turkey
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 12:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations chief of political affairs is visiting Cyprus, Greece and Turkey to assess the mood on the island and in the region after the parallel referenda in Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities late last April on Secretary-General ... More >>
Peace in Southern Sudan Critical to Darfur
Tuesday, 31 May 2005, 10:32 am | United Nations
Making good on his promise to travel to southern Sudan when there is peace, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today held talks in Rumbek with John Garang, the Chairmen of the Sudan Liberation People's Movement (SPLM), and emphasized that ... More >>
Annan: Aid for Next Rounds of Lebanese Elections
Tuesday, 31 May 2005, 10:30 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today hailed the democratic conduct of the first phase of Lebanon's parliamentary elections and pledged the world body's continued support for next rounds. More >>
