AP - Myanmar's military rulers have approved visas for dozens of international relief workers and were allowing more foreigners into areas devastated by a cyclone that left millions in need of aid, the United Nations said Thursday.
AFP - Relief workers slowly moved into Myanmar's cyclone-ravaged delta after the junta started to open access, as the United Nations reported Thursday that all its visa requests had been approved.
AFP - Outrage over Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest will not detract from cyclone relief work in Myanmar, key donors said, as the United Nations on Wednesday reported small gains in getting aid to survivors.
Reuters - The United Nations' human rights chief
on Wednesday condemned the deadly political violence that has
gripped Zimbabwe since its March 29 election and called for a
full investigation into the killings and attacks.
The Christian Science Monitor - Half a year before 12-year-old Elizabeth was raped by 10 United Nations peacekeepers, a gathering of the world's humanitarian agencies hammered out promises to end sexual abuse of children by aid staff. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 09:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
Reuters - Myanmar's junta extended the house
arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, a move
that dismayed some of the Western nations who promised millions
of dollars in aid after Cyclone Nargis.
Reuters - Much more needs to be done to
prevent the killing and displacement of civilians in places
such as Darfur, Somalia, Israel and Columbia, U.N. humanitarian
affairs chief John Holmes said on Tuesday.
AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday the United Nations will investigate allegations by a leading children's charity that U.N. peacekeepers are involved in widespread sexual abuse of children.
AP - More than half a million people have been uprooted by conflicts in the first five months of this year — the vast majority in Africa — and thousands of civilians have been killed from Darfur to Iraq, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday. -- read full article
Wed, 28 May 2008 04:58:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: United Nations
AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that some foreign aid workers have gone into Myanmar's cyclone-ravaged delta without problems, reflecting a "new spirit of cooperation" by the ruling junta.
AFP - Outrage over Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest will not detract from relief work, key donors said, as the United Nations on Wednesday reported small gains in getting aid to cyclone survivors.
Reuters - Myanmar's junta extended the house
arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, a move
likely to dismay Western nations who promised millions of
dollars in aid after Cyclone Nargis.
AFP - Iraq's national security council has asked Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to ensure that a pact under discussion to extend the US troop presence beyond 2008 will not harm the national interest.
AP - Iran's new conservative-dominated parliament convened Tuesday amid calls for unity in a country suffering from high inflation and U.N. Security Council sanctions over its refusal to curb its controversial nuclear program.
AFP - Egypt's Culture Minister Faruq Hosni, a candidate to head UNESCO but under fire from the Jewish state, said on Tuesday he "dreams" of normal ties with Israel once it has made peace with the Palestinians.
