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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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Displaced Persons Still Face Hardships in Sudan: UN UN officials
have said that despite improvement in access by relief workers in
Sudan, there has been no progress on security and protection of internally
displaced people. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs says that air raids and attacks by the janjaweed and government
allied militias are making displaced people afraid to return to their
villages. UN spokesman Fred Eckhard: UN officials
also say that progress has been made to meet the humanitarian needs
for the displaced persons but gaps remain.
United States Says Global Fight against Terrorism Remains a Priority The
representative of the United States, Ambassador John Danforth, has
said that the fight against terrorism remains a priority for his government.
He was speaking at a meeting of the Security Council which heard a
briefing on the work of its Counter Terrorism Committee. Ambassador
Danforth said a team effort is needed to defeat the scourge of terrorism
and he commended the work done by Counter Terrorism Committee:
The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $16 million to a project
to study the effectiveness of drugs to protect children from the worst
effects of malaria. The project run by the World Health Organization,
UNICEF and research centres in Africa, Europe and the United States
is known as the Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants , IPTI
Consortium. It's Coordinator, Andrea Egan, says the focus is on Africa
where malaria continues to affect many children: The
impact of the IPTI Consortium on malaria and anaemia is being assessed
in Gabon, Mozambique, Kenya and Tanzania.
Genocide Suspect is Arrested and Transferred to Tanzania The UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, based in Arusha Tanzania, has taken custody of a Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in South Africa last week. Gaspard Kanyarukiga, who was a businessman in Kigali and Kibuye during the 1994 genocide, is facing four counts of genocide. He is alleged to have transported police and militias to a church where they poured fuel and set the building on fire. He is also accused of supervising massacres and ordering that corpses of the victims be removed from the church.
UNICEF Calls for End to Abuse of Children in Uganda The UN Children's Fund has called on the Government of Uganda and the international community to do more to stop the abuse of children in Uganda. UNICEF says the plight of thousands of children abducted as soldiers and sex slave in northern Uganda is being ignored. The agency says while the world may be awakening to the emergency in Sudan, it has all but forgotten the tragedy of neighbouring Uganda. According to UNICEF, some 12,000 boys and girls have been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, in the past two years. UNICEF says unlike any other, the LRA conflict is a war on children. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Humanitarian
agencies are also worried about recent attacks targeting them, as
well as by increasing pressure the Sudanese government is putting
on the internally displaced persons to return to their villages or
other relocation sites." 
"Through
its capacity building work in its global coordination initiative,
the committee has helped to energize members states and organizations
around the world to make the fight against terrorism more of a priority
whether through the adoption of new or the improvement of existing
counter-terrorism laws or enforcement mechanisms." 
Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation Donates $16 million to Fight Malaria