Full Coverage: United Nations

30.09.2005 Tunisia's continuing rights abuses make it an unsuitable place to hold this year's United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, concludes the latest report of the Tunisia Monitoring Group.

30.09.2005 New country-by-country data reveal inadequate progress on protecting children and women from vaccine-preventable diseases, despite the availability of low-cost vaccines, according to a new UNICEF study.

29.09.2005 The Delegation of the United Nations in Serbia visited Pirot, a town in Eastern Serbia, to promote the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), under the campaign of celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the UN.

29.09.2005 Continuing violence in the Sudanese region of Darfur is hindering humanitarian efforts and creating a chaotic situation there, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, warned this week.

28.09.2005 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for sustained political and financial commitment to disaster reduction, stressing that all human societies are vulnerable to natural disasters as last year's Asian tsunami and the recent tragedy that befell the United States Gulf Coast have demonstrated.

27.09.2005 Islamic States account for the world's highest child mortality rates, where 60 per cent of children who die from disease and malnutrition never make it to their first birthday, according to a report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

26.09.2005 Controversy has erupted over an article questioning whether the Millennium Development Goals are scientifically grounded. Here, David Dickson argues for greater scientific robustness if the UN targets are to be met.
The original article and the responses of Jeffrey Sachs and others can be read on The Millennium Development Goals: How Close Are We?

22.09.2005 On the occasion of International Day of Peace (September 21), the Prime Minister of Kosovo valued the role of United Nations support and assistance as high for the establishment of peace in Kosovo’s postwar period. Through a press release sent out on Tuesday he called for peace, tranquility, cooperation and tolerance.

22.09.2005 inadequate rainfall and a poor harvest mean that 34 per cent of Malawians - including 1 million children and pregnant women - will be unable to get enough to eat until the next harvest in March 2006.

22.09.2005 President Bush's U.N. speech shows he sees some benefit in working with other nations when it comes to fighting terrorism, seeking trade agreements, or preventing the spread of disease, says the U.N. Foundation's Johanna Mendelson Forman, but it's too early to say if this marks a turning point for the hitherto unilateralist Bush administration.

22.09.2005 U.S. talk show host Bill O'Reilly remarked last week that he wished Hurricane Katrina had hit the United Nations building in New York, adding, "and I wouldn't have rescued them." Citizens for Global Solutions asks you to email O'Reilly's boss and demand he apologize for his hate-speak.

20.09.2005 In his address to the United Nations General Assembly, Indian External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh called for strengthening efforts at both national and international levels for "taking us closer to the development targets set in the Millennium declaration five years ago." Expressing his disappointment over the failure of the Outcome Document adopted at the world leaders' summit to address major concerns of the developing world, he also called for making the process of globalization "fairer and more equitable."

20.09.2005 Meeting at the UN headquarters in New York last week were 191 heads of state and delegates, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders. Initially the World Summit was set to review the status of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), five years on from their origin and ten years from completion.With progress in achieving the goals wildly off-track, was much anticipation and hope resting on this summit to move previous commitments forward.

19.09.2005 The Bush administration's decision to withhold funding to the United Nations Population Fund for the fourth consecutive year was condemned by Population Action International, who said the move puts domestic politics over global womens' health needs.

19.09.2005 ActionAid policy experts on education, women's rights, and HIV/AIDS comment on what the outcome of last week's U.N. World Summit in New York means for people living in poverty.

19.09.2005 A mini-recording studio in Union Square helped New Yorkers give voice to their concerns about world poverty last week as world leaders were meeting a few blocks away.

19.09.2005 After almost three months, the hijackers of a World Food Program (WFP) ship carrying food aid off the coast of Somalia pledged to release the cargo after reaching agreement that the 850 tons of rice meant for tsunami survivors be distributed in the "neglected" central region.

19.09.2005 Janitor Han Lin is a democracy activist who fled from Burma, lived in the jungle for 6 years, and finally found refuge in the U.S. He talks about his experiences, his determined attempts to raise awareness about the atrocities in his homeland, and U.N. false promises.

19.09.2005 The World Bank and IMF will meet September 24-25 to discuss whether to approve or reject the G8 debt deal. Urge their executive directors to finalize the deal that would bring debt relief to the some of the world's poorest countries, says Africa Action.

17.09.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 16 (OneWorld) - This week's U.N. summit of world leaders was to have renewed the world body and lift hopes for a fairer and safer planet. But advocacy groups and Secretary-General Kofi Annan alike decried the outcome as far short of action needed to rein in poverty, disease, and weapons of mass destruction.