Development

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL:  PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS RISING TO NEW HIGH

NEW YORK, 7 September (UN Department of Public Information) -- The number and scope of UN peace operations are approaching what may become their highest levels ever, improving prospects for conflict resolution, but also stretching thin the capacities of the system, Secretary-General Kofi Annan reported to the General Assembly today.

UN FINDS PROGRESS ON WORLD ANTI-POVERTY GOALS, BUT CRISIS AREAS REMAIN

NEW YORK, 7 September (UN Department of Public Information) -- Developing countries are reducing extreme poverty, extending access to primary education and alleviating disease and hunger in many regions of the world, in pursuit of targets set in the year 2000 UN Millennium Declaration, according to an annual progress report from Secretary-General Kofi Annan released today.

Youth Art Contest Launched for United Nations Conference on smallislands

NEW YORK, 23 August (UN Department of Public Information) -- Young people in small island nations are being invited to share their vision for island living through an international art contest, the United Nations announced today.

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S ADVISORY BOARD SEEKS WAYS TO MEET

UN DEVELOPMENT GOALS ON WATER, SANITATION

New York, 22 July 2004 -- A group of high-level experts appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will come together for the first time today and tomorrow, to consider ways to mobilize political support and financial resources to ensure that the world stays on track to meet the development targets on water and sanitation.

UNRWA, UNDP, PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY SIGN LAND AGREEMENT TO REBUILD HOMES IN RAFAH

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RAMALLAH, 12 July (UNRWA) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Palestinian Authority today signed a land agreement that will allow the United Nations agencies to build replacement homes in Rafah in the Gaza Strip.

UN OFFICIAL CALLS FOR ACTION TO REINFORCE PROGRESS IN POOREST NATIONS

NEW YORK, 16 June (UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries -- There is both opportunity and urgency to address the needs of the least developed countries, the United Nations High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Anwarul Chowdhury, said today.

united nations official calls for action to reinforce progress in poorest nations

NEW YORK, 11 June -- There is both opportunity and urgency to address the needs of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the United Nations’s High Representative for the those nations, Anwarul Chowdhury, said today.

GROUP OF 77 MARKS FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY WITH SPECIAL

MINISTERIAL MEETING, 11 - 12 JUNE IN BRAZIL

MAJORITY OF WORLD’S COUPLES OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE USING CONTRACEPTION

CHILE BIOTECHNOLOGY FORUM CONCLUDES

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