Full Coverage: United Nations

01/31/2006 The Head of the European Commission Liaison Office in Kosovo Ambassador Giorgio Mamberto said in an exclusive interview with KosovaLive that the European Union is not going to administrate Kosovo.

01/31/2006 Amnesty International, human rights organization, reports that Serbian authority failed to investigate the alleged bad treatment of detainees during the “Sablja 2003” operation that followed the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

01/31/2006 The U.S. has the perfect opportunity to stop the genocide in Darfur when it takes over the presidency of the U.N Security Council this February. A massive call-in campaign will target the U.S. mission to the U.N. Wednesday and a rally for Darfur will take place at the White House Thursday.

01/30/2006 Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling for the U.N. to modify its mindset and increasingly work with "all the new actors on the international scene"--non-profits, the private sector, the media, local administrators, and others--rather than exclusively with governments.

01/29/2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 29 (OneWorld) - The governments of the United States and Iran--part of President George W. Bush's ''axis of evil'' and his current nuclear bete noire--demonstrated rare unity of cause this past week when Washington backed a Tehran initiative to deny UN access to advocates of sexual minorities' rights.

01/28/2006 The UN Security Council must stop the deluge of weapons into Africa's Great Lakes region - particularly northern Uganda and Congo - and protect civilians from attacks by armed groups, a leading charity urged.
* Security Council reviews proposed peacebuilding in Africa’s Great Lakes region

01/27/2006 The groundwork has been laid to bring Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity, but complacency and corruption may leave millions waiting for justice. Others believe prosecution would do little to ease the suffering of the country's embittered citizens, anyway.

01/27/2006 About 400 UN staff members in Ivory Coast have been evacuated to Gambia and Senegal in the wake of attacks on the UN offices.

01/26/2006 International development and rights activist Walden Bello explains how military interventions for 'humanitarian reasons' can cause further human rights violations, be corrupted by political goals, and set a dangerous precedent for the disregard of national sovereignty.

01/26/2006 A United Nations agency that protects intellectual property handled nearly 20 per cent more cybersquatting disputes – the abusive registration of trademarks as Internet domain names – in 2005 than the previous year, as celebrities, corporate moguls and others turned to its services in ever-greater numbers.

01/26/2006 Sudanese refugees are again fleeing Darfur for camps in neighbouring Chad, and the UN refugee chief, António Guterres, has warned the UN Security Council of a "much greater calamity" in the region unless bold measures are taken soon.

01/26/2006 A coalition of 40 rights groups has asked the US to explain why it reversed policy this week and backed an Iranian initiative to deny UN consultative status to organisations working to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

01/25/2006 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 25 (OneWorld) - Groups fighting for the rights of peasant communities are stepping up pressure on governments to ban the use of genetically modified ''suicide seeds'' at UN-sponsored talks on biodiversity in Spain this week.

01/25/2006 ”Vuonna 2006, maailma voi valita. Se voi jättää asekaupan kasvun järkyttävät inhimilliset vaikutukset huomiotta kuten tähänkin asti tai toimia asekaupan rajoittamiseksi,” sanoi Oxfamin pääjohtaja Barbara Stocking tammikuussa pidetyssä YK-kokouksessa. Kokouksessa valmisteltiin kesäkuussa järjestettävää pienaseiden YK-konferenssia.

01/25/2006 Worldwide unemployment - especially among the vast and growing legion of jobless youth - reached new heights last year, despite robust economic growth, the International Labour Office said.

01/25/2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 24 (OneWorld) - New fighting has broken out in Sudan's Darfur region in apparent protest against the Khartoum regime's candidacy to head the African Union (AU). The move comes as the Bush administration prepares to preside over the U.N. Security Council amid calls for it to end the bloody conflict.

01/24/2006 Recent remarks by senior U.S. and U.N. officials, as well as by African Union representatives indicate a growing consensus on the need for a U.N. intervention to stop the violence in Darfur, says Africa Action. The group has called on the U.S. to use its chairmanship of the U.N. Security Council in February to push the issue.

01/24/2006 Despite record emergency funding last year, the UN Children's Fund says it needs $805 million to assist children and women in 29 humanitarian emergencies. More than one-third of the money is wanted for Sudan.

01/24/2006 A blueprint for international engagement in the development of Afghanistan over the next five years had been finalized, the United Nations Assistance Mission in the country (UNAMA) announced today. The Afghanistan Compact, to be launched at a conference in London from 31 January to 1 February, covers efforts in security, governance, human rights, the rule of law, development and counter-narcotics.

01/24/2006 Representatives of Asian and Pacific governments meeting at a United Nations-sponsored conference in Bangkok pledged to harmonize economic growth with environmental sustainability in addressing climate change, air pollution, industrial development and energy issues.