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Occupied Arab Territories in Political Turmoil
 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenges world leaders to scale up efforts in the fight against AIDS; The International Labour Organization says more than 36 million workers have HIV; The Decolonization Committee is told there's a need for more support for political education in the dependent territories; The UN Resident Coordinator in the Eastern Caribbean says the Millennium Development Goals are an excellent tool for translating policies into practice; The International organization for Migration says trafficking may be contributing to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean
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UN General Assembly debates World Court ruling on Israeli barrier The
UN General Assembly has been debating the advisory opinion of the
International Court of Justice, which has ruled that Israel's construction
of the Barrier is contrary to international law.
In his response the Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman, said the Israeli Barrier has become necessary because of Palestinian terrorism. And he called for Israel to be treated fairly. A non-binding vote on the new Palestinian Resolution about the Israeli Barrier is expected to be held in the UN General Assembly next week.
Head of UNAIDS calls for unity and decisiveness against HIV/AIDS during the closing session of international AIDS conference in Thailand
UN agencies launch urgent operations in Peru to help children after 50 die from effects of severe cold
"It's basically because they have very bad pneumonias that cannot be attended properly in these health centers. It can get worse; we don't have signals at this point that the temperature will raise. On the contrary the expectation is that the temperature will continue to go lower and lower and of course this hits children that usually are malnourished and have very limited access to health facilities." Mr. Franco adds that UNICEF's urgent provision of blankets and medicine to combat pneumonia is insufficient and he called for proper planning and concerted action to stop this crisis claiming lives next year. About
1.4 million people are believed to be at risk from respiratory diseases
caused by the cold weather.
UN Refugee Agency and international NGOs step up help for Darfur refugees hard hit by heavy rains in Chad.
UNHCR spokesman in Geneva Ron Redmond says the first heavy rains on Wednesday affected about fifteen thousand refugees camped along river beds in around the border town of Bahai. "It flooded the river bed, forced thousands of refugees out of their encampments; many had to walk through the water to drier spots, carrying their belongings on their head." UNHCR
has now relocated the families whose shelters were flooded to a new
camp that was opened on Monday.
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"This
Advisory Opinion represents a momentous and pivotal development. It
has brought international law, which for too many years has been sidelined
and undermined, back to the forefront of the dialogue concerning the
question of Palestine and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
"For
years, if not decades, this Assembly has entertained the Palestinian
representative's attempts to manufacture a virtual reality. An alternate
world in which there is but one victim and one villain, in which there
are Palestinian right but no Palestinian responsibilities, in which
there are Israeli responsibilities but no Israeli rights."
The
Executive Director of UNAIDS, Dr. Peter Piot has told the closing
session of the Fifteenth International AIDS Conference in Bangkok,
that feel good projects should not replace scientific facts, on how
to effectively fight HIV/AIDS.
United
Nations agencies have launched emergency operations in Peru to help
children facing starvation, disease, and a severely cold weather,
after about fifty children died from the cold snap.
The
UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, says, torrential rains, sandstorms and strong
winds in Chad are worsening the problems of Sudanese refugees in Chad
and hampering the relief effort.