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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 Secretary-General Calls on Palestinian Authority to Reform Security
"What is important is the actions that need to be taken on the ground to bring it under control and for the Palestinian Authority to take the steps necessary and to begin to reform, particularly bringing the security forces under one command" The Secretary-General
called on Charman Yasser Arafat to take time to listen to the Prime
Minister and other members of his leadership.
WFP Needs Money to Feed Refugees from the Central African Republic in Chad
"By the end of this month we may not have enough food left fro the 27,000 refugees who are from the Central African Republic who have been in Chad since 2003, some of them since 2002 because we simply haven't got enough funding" Ms. Hurford says the agency needs the money to buy food locally in order to avoid delays in providing food to the needy people.
Displaced People Are Being Neglected Worldwide: UN Official The head of the United Nations inter-agency division on internally displaced, Denis McNamara, says that displaced civilians worldwide remain a massive neglected humanitarian crisis. The division, which came into existence at the beginning of this month, has been established by the UN Secretary-General to respond to the problem of displacement. Mr. McNamara points out that 25 million people around the world have been displaced by conflict and human rights abuse: "In addition to the 25 million displaced from conflict and abuse, probably another 25 million displaced by natural disasters and development projects. So total global displaced civilian population, if you put the two together of 50 million plus" Denis McNamara says for the next year and a half his division will focus on six to eight countries where displacement is a major problem.
Rains Hamper Assistance to Refugees in Eastern Chad
"UNHCR and WFP are looking at ways of bringing assistance to the refugees in the Bahai area by alternative routes from Libya and from northern Chad through El-Fayed. Meanwhile, our team in Bahai is working as fast as possible to continue moving the refugees to the recently opened camp of Oure-Cassoni" UNHCR says that
as of Monday, more than 6,000 refugees had been transported to the
new camp.
UN Secretary-General Urges Donors to Help Haiti The UN Secretary-General
has called on a donors meeting in Washington D.C. to pledge generously
to support the peace building and economic recovery in Haiti. In a
message delivered by his Special Representative Juan Gabriel Valdez,
he said that despite some improvements in recent months Haiti remains
fragile. He noted that armed groups continue to endanger stability,
the rule of law has not yet been restored and political forces remain
at loggerheads. The Secretary-General added that basic services need
urgent rehabilitation and unemployment is widespread in Haiti.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the Palestinian Authority
to reform its security apparatus. His comments came in the wake of
a crisis which included the submission of resignation by Prime Minister
Ahmed Qurei who was reportedly unhappy about the lawlessness in Gaza
and lack of reform. Chairman Yasser Arafat did not accept the resignation
and the Prime Minister decided to stay on. The Secretary-General said
Palestinians are facing a serious situation:
The
UN food agency has warned that it is running out of food for refugees
from the Central African Republic trapped in Chad. The World Food
Programme, WFP, says over 20,000 men women and children in southern
Chad are unable to go home at the moment because of unrest. A spokesperson
for the food agency in Rome, Caroline Hurford says the situation is
becoming quite serious:
Rains
continue to hamper the provision of relief assistance to refugees
in Eastern Chad. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, says
riverbeds in the region have turned to quagmires slowing down the
transport of food and non-food items. The agency's spokesperson, Jennifer
Pagonis says that Bahai region in the north is now completely cut
off by flooded riverbeds: