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The United Nations Development Programme Announces Winners of Equator Prize 2004 on biodiversity


Interventions in War and Peace:
Prevention, Practice and Policy: Part II




Indigenous Women Express Themselves Through Art


An Inter-Academy Council Report Outlines a Strategy to Build Worldwide Scientific Capacity;
Rwanda's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Underlines the Role of the UN in Post-Conflict Resolution;
A High-Level Panel on Global Security Looks at a Broad Range of Threats;
Africans Share Post-Conflict National Reconciliation Experience with the Security Council.



Ethiopia's Women Face Obstacles of Poverty and Tradition;
Tripartite Legal System Hinders Progress towards Gender Equality in Nigeria; Bhutan Reports Improvement in the Welfare of Women.




Success and Challenges for the UN Peace-keeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC)



The World Food Programme warns that Haiti's civil crisis is preventing vital food aid deliveries;
 Secretary-General Kofi Annan says colonialism is an anachronism of the 21st century;
Caribbean States stress the need for the remaining non-self-governing territories to attain self-determination;
Jamaica says governments have primary responsibility for effective delivery of essential public services;
Caribbean States call for greater support for the Barbados Programme of Action.

Friday, 20 February 2004
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Annan to Appoint Special Adviser to Haiti

The UN is stepping up its involvement in Haiti.
There's word that the Secretary-General intends to appoint a Special Adviser for Haiti. A senior UN official in a brief to the General Assembly says the adviser will maintain high-level contacts with the Caribbean Community and the Organization of American States, provide the Secretary-General with current assessments of the evolving situation and advise him on possible future United Nations roles in Haiti. UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Kieran Pendergast, says the political situation in Haiti has remained volatile and unsettled since the flawed elections in May 2002:

"The current situation in Haiti is both alarming and dangerous. Concerted action by the international is required. The UN remains in close contact with Caricom and the OAS. We are assessing our own role to see how the UN could be more helpful in facilitating mediation efforts."

The UN currently has no political presence in Haiti.

UN Peacekeeping Presence to Strengthen Gains in Timor-Leste

The continued presence of a UN peacekeeping operation in Timor Leste for an additional one year consolidation phase is essential to reinforce and strengthen what has been achieved to date. That assessment comes from UN Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guehenno. He says this additional year of support would make a meaningful difference in enabling the country to reach the threshold of self-sufficiency. The UN mission would include a small military presence of more than 300 personnel.



UNRWA Plans Conference on Palestinian Aid

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has called a conference for June to obtain desperately needed humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. The head of UNRWA Peter Hansen says there's been an increase in the "hopelessness and despair" in the Palestinian territories.
And he hopes the conference offers a chance that the international community is taking the situation seriously:

"It is our hope that we can focus the attention on governments not only on the short term issues that are facing us wit the refugees in the Middle East but also on the medium term say four to five years - the challenges we are facing and the commitments that would be necessary to respond meaningfully to these challenges."

The UN agency is facing a serious shortfall in funding. Last December it made an emergency appeal for more than $190 million but has only received $40 million so far.



West Africa Mobilizes for Final Assault Against Polio

The UN health agency (WHO) is spearheading efforts by West African countries for a major campaign against polio. WHO says ten African countries will hold simultaneous polio immunization campaigns targeting more than 60 million children. Melissa Corkum of WHO says thousands of vaccinators would go house-to-house over three days to administer the vaccine directly to every child:

"We have a window of opportunity based on the epidemiology of the virus to finish the job, to stop transmission of polio within 2004 across the world. So basically we are down to six polio endemic countries and Nigeria is one of those key countries in Africa which had the highest cases in 2003."

The programme comes one month after an emergency meeting of African health ministers committed to end polio transmission.


UN Mounts Voter Registration Campaign in Afghanistan

The United Nations is doing everything possible to register Afghan voters in time for elections due in June. Spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva said the UN mission in Afghanistan has launched an intensive programme to speed up voter registration, but it faces security problems in some regions. The UN is currently enrolling voters in eight cities, and will open centres in more than 4-thouand towns in April for a three-week registration drive. Head of the UN mission in Kabul, Jean Arnault, said it is very important that the aspirations to hold elections in a free and fair manner be respected.