By Lisa Schlein Geneva 21 September 2006 A U.N. development agency report says the current system of providing aid to Africa is not working, and calls for a Marshall Plan-style system to replace it. In its latest report, the U.N. Conference on Trade...
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 21 September 2006 Nepal Maoist affiliated students union activists gather to demand date for constituent assembly elections in Katmandu, September 18, 2006 The United Nations in Nepal is calling for greater accountability...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 20 September 2006 Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir addresses the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006 President Omar al-Bashir Tuesday categorically rejected the U.N. Security...
By David Gollust United Nations 18 September 2006 Kofi Annan U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Monday that Iraq could be heading for full-scale civil war if current levels of violence continue. He spoke at a meeting on the Iraq situation at t...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 18 September 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to focus as much attention on the tragic situation in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur as it has on the crises in the Mi...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 17 September 2006 Human-rights organizations are calling for the U.N. Human Rights Council to protect the victims of abuse by naming and shaming those countries that violate their rights. On the eve of its second session, righ...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 15 September 2006 The United Nations official in charge of the fight against bird flu has urged donor nations to release funds to Indonesia because the country has made progress in combating the disease. ----- The U.N. coord...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 13 September 2006 The chief United Nations administrator in Kosovo is warning that any delay in settling the region's status could lead to further instability. But as VOA's Peter Heinlein reports from U.N. headquarte...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 12 September 2006 Sheika Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa (file photo) The U.N. General Assembly has opened its 61st session and for the first time a Muslim woman is in the president's chair. From U.N. headquarters, VOA's Pete...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 September 2006 United Nations disaster-management experts have gone to Ivory Coast to help with the investigation of a toxic waste dumping incident that has left at least six people dead and thousands ill. ----- A man point...