Month: July 2003

Washington, 29 July– President Bush assured Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that the United States would continue its efforts to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians. ”We will encourage all parties to keep their […]

Geneva, 29 July– More than 300,000 Afghan refugees have returned home this year with support from the UN refugee agency, a spokesman said Tuesday. Including spontaneous returns from Iran, the number of Afghans back in […]

Monrovia, 29 July– Rebel fighting has spread to another camp in Monrovia, dispersing thousands of Sierra Leonean refugees, some of whom had been set for evacuation from the strife-torn Liberian capital. Over the weekend, fighting […]

Monrovia, 29 July– Both rebel movements in Liberia advanced further into the rapidly shrinking fiefdom of President Charles Taylor on Tuesday and vowed to continue their offensive until foreign peacekeepers arrived in the country. However, […]

New York, 29 July– The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has published a digest comprising the findings of judicial and quasi-judicial bodies of the United Nations and regional organizations on the […]

Geneva, 29 July– The new head of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today announced plans to rapidly step up the global fight to eradicate polio and named a senior agency expert in SARS […]

GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG , 29 July– GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG – The United Nations today launched a 2003/04 Regional Consolidated Appeal (CAP) for southern Africa to provide life-saving assistance for 6.5 million people severely weakened by consecutive failed harvests, extreme […]

Nairobi, 29 July– Amidst reports of continuing attacks against civilians in Northern and Eastern Uganda, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that the region is facing the worst humanitarian crisis in years. […]