Month: December 2003

GENEVA / CAIRO / NEW YORK, 11 December 2003 — International development efforts are drastically short-changing girls, leaving hundreds of millions of girls and women uneducated and unable to contribute to positive change for themselves, […]

Geneva, 10 December, 2003— Opening the first-ever global summit on information, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appealed to world leaders to share the benefits of powerful information and communications technologies (ICT) with the poorest […]

New York, 10 December, 2003— United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the observance of basic human rights in Iraq has improved, but he notes that the insurgency in Iraq cannot be solved solely by military […]

New York, 10 December, 2003— The global economy is showing increasing signs of a strengthening recovery this year, with growth expected to strengthen further in all major regions in 2004, according to a new United […]

Kinshasa, 9 December, 2003— The World Bank is preparing a package worth up to US $100 million to the Congolese government to help it fight HIV/AIDS, an World Bank official said on Tuesday. Jean-Charles Kra, […]

Addis Ababa, 10 December, 2003— Seven million Ethiopians could go hungry next year without international aid to make up a chronic food shortfall, the government warned on Wednesday. Simon Mechale, head of the Ethiopian government’s […]

Lagos, 8 December, 2003— The US-based oil giant ExxonMobil has been ordered to pay three Niger Delta communities 1.4 billion naira (US $10.1 million) as compensation for the effects of a 1998 oil spill, Nigerian […]

Bangui, 10 December, 2003— The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Tuesday began a distribution of canoes to fishing cooperatives in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), and surrounding areas, to […]