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| Date | UN agency | Theme |
| 5 March | Un Secretariat | Senior Arab journalists wrapping up a weeklong meeting at the United Nations today heard Secretary-General Kofi Annan appeal for their help in explaining the world body's role in addressing a host of issues, especially the Middle East conflict and the war in Iraq. |
| 5 March | UNICEF | The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Chad's Public Health Ministry will use horses to reach some of the country's most remote areas during a campaign to inoculate nearly 90,000 children - half of them Sudanese refugees - against measles. |
| 4 March | UN Secretariat | United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced the appointment of two women to posts at the level of Assistant Secretary-General: Elisabeth Lindenmayer of France and Angela Kane of Germany. |
| 4 March | UN Sec't//UNCITRAL |
United Nations Legal Counsel Hans Corell appealed today for more attention to be paid to the condition of the world's environment as he reflected on related conventions that have been ratified and have entered into force during his 10 years of UN service.
The international rule of law on trade has also improved, he said. The Legal Counsel's office in Vienna was being upgraded to a full division and would serve not only the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), but would offer States technical advice on implementing international trade conventions and laws. |
| 4 March | UN Secretariat |
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will spotlight the need to place development at the centre of the global agenda during a two-day tour of Canada starting on Monday.
Mr. Annan will address that theme - as well as the task of finding more effective ways to tackle new and old challenges - in an address to a joint hearing of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, the national capital. |
| 3 March | UN Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC) | Drug addiction, human trafficking and prison together form a "trilogy" of conditions contributing to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said today |
| 3 March | United Nations Mission in Ethiopia & Eritrea (UNIMEE) | Senior military officers from Eritrea and Ethiopia today attended the first meeting of several area commissions set up by the United Nations to promote better relations between the two countries, which fought a border war from 1998 to 2000. |
| 2 March | UNDP | Over the next four years the UNDP and Equatorial Guinea have promised to spend $5.2 million training 2,000 teachers, 45 school inspectors and 36 education advisers as part of a scheme dubbed "Education for All," the agency said yesterday. |
| 1 March | UNHCHR | The United Nations-sponsored convention to protect the world's migrant workers and their families will open its first committee meeting today in Geneva, beginning its work by electing members, setting up rules of procedure and developing an agenda for the years ahead. |
| 1 March | UNESCAP | Governments and civil society organizations need to cooperate better if the Asia-Pacific region is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a senior United Nations official has told a two-day workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal. |
| 1 March | UNIFEM | Addressing the Commission on the Status of Women, José Antonio Ocampo, the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, stressed the need to ensure gender equality in order to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by a UN summit in 2000 to tackle global ills. |
| 27 February | UNEP | Efforts to promote the safety of international trade in genetically modified organisms received a new boost this week with the adoption of labelling and documentation requirements, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today. |
| 27 February | message from UN to African Union summit | As the members of the African Union gathered for an extraordinary summit in Sirte, Libya, today to consider critical issues of peace, stability and security, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan pledged the world body's fully support for reaching the continent's goals. |
| 27 February | UN's General Assembly | With regional military forces being strengthened for rapid deployment, the United Nations can now deploy multinational peacekeeping troops as part of a series of steps reinforcing strategic partnerships, especially in Africa, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says. |
| 26 February | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | A senior United Nations development official today called for greater inclusion of African nations in international financial markets through the continued expansion in the continent of sovereign risk ratings – which place countries on the investor map and allow them access to international capital markets. |
| 25 February | World Health Organisation (WHO) | Tooth decay, gum disease and other oral afflictions are prevalent in industrialized countries and increasing in developing nations as global sugar consumption spikes, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) says in a new report. |
| 25 February | UNICEF | The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and celebrated Spanish football club Real Madrid today formed a formal partnership to draw attention to children's issues and improve the observance of children's rights. |
| 24 February | International Labour Organisation (ILO) | The world's interdependent economy benefits few and disenfranchises many, according to a new report presented today by the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) which calls for building an "inclusive" globalization. |
| 23 February | UNEP | The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has hailed the decision of a conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity to set more specific, measurable targets for reducing the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. |
| 19 February | United Nations University (UNU) | Existing international rules about protecting intellectual property rights are an affront to the customs of many indigenous peoples and need to be revamped, according to a new report by the Tokyo-based United Nations University (UNU). |
| 19 February | UNCTAD | While industrialized countries undermine Africa's anti-poverty efforts with huge subsidies for their own commodity producers, the continent's own non-fuel exports have lost international market share over the last two decades, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said today. |
| 19 February | UN Secretariat/HQ | Representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York today to hear ideas on how to explain to the world body's critics the role that it plays in maintaining peace and security and promoting development. |
| 18 February | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) | An international treaty banning the world's most dangerous pesticides, industrial chemicals and hazardous by-products of combustion will enter into force on 17 May now that 50 countries have ratified the pact, the United Nations announced today. |
| 18 February | UN Secretariat | A new report on staffing at the United Nations shows women catching up with men in terms of the number of those recruited, but females still hold lower-level jobs. |
| 17 February | FAO | In a bid to boost consumer safety, a recent United Nations meeting on the fishing trade has called for the establishment of cost-effective and global standards to trace a fish's progress through trade networks from capture to consumption. |
| 17 February | United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) | Aiming to strengthen the global response to AIDS, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) today announced new guidelines on voluntary HIV testing and counselling. |
| 13 February | United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) | The environmental performance of corporations and its link to their bottom line is the subject of new guidelines released today by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). |
| 12 February | Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) | With more than 2 billion people in developing nations depending on the rice-based system for their economic livelihood, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today opened a two-day international conference aimed at increasing production through greater efficiency and sustainability. |
| 12 February | IAEA |
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency today called for the urgent strengthening of the world's non-proliferation regime to ensure that nuclear materials and even weapons are not acquired by terrorists.
Mr. ElBaradei also suggested that the five States recognized under the treaty as nuclear powers - China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the US - must make verifiable and irreversible moves towards disarmament. This would include bringing into force the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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