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UN Launches Anti-Corruption Video Spots:  ‘With Corruption, Everyone Pays’

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Fact Sheet                                                 

United Nations Convention against Corruption

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UN Crime Commission Meeting to Focus on Rule of Law and Development

Forty-Member Body to Hold Thirteenth Session in Vienna from 11 to 20 May

DESPITE SEA-CHANGE IN GLOBAL ATTITUDES, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES STILL SUFFER

FROM PREJUDICE AND ILL-WILL, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS PERMANENT FORUM

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the opening of the third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on 10 May:

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UN EXPERTON RIGHT TO FOOD CALLS ON DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA,

CHINA TO ‘STOP REPRESSION OF HUNGER REFUGEES’

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GENEVA, 10 May (UN Information Service) -- The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, issued the following statement today:

SECRETARY-GENERAL dismayed by terrorist attack in chechnya

Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM TEAMS UP WITH UN TO NAIL DOWN

PRIVATE SECTOR SOLUTIONS TO DEVELOPMENT

NEW YORK, 10 May (UN Department of Public Information) -- The non-profit that organizes the famed global policy forums in Davos signed a memorandum of understanding today with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, on a joint effort to define policies that will maximize business contributions to development and the fight against poverty.

UN RESPONDS TO FLOODING IN ZAMBIA

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NEW YORK, 10 May (OCHA) –- The United Nations and other humanitarian agencies are responding to humanitarian needs created by floods in Zambia that now affect more than 20,000 people.

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