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The World Bank wants to expand its engagement with poor countries; The
ILO calls for decent work as a development tool; Jamaica calls for greater efforts to allow developing countries to benefit from integration in the world economy; Jamaica supports a monitoring mechanism for implementation of a pending treaty protecting the rights of the disabled; Haiti signs an agreement with UNDP and the OAS to help with its elections next year
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Bangladeshi women are more educated but domestic violence still prevails: government report The
UN fights human trafficking in Kosovo
UNESCO Commemorates the Abolition of the Slave Trade WHO promotes consumption of five fruits and vegetables a day for health
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UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees Protest Israeli Obstruction of Its Work
UNICEF Appalled by Hostage Taking of Children at Russian School
"We are urging an immediate and safe release of all of these children. It is just unacceptable that children should be used in this way." She added that
schools must never be degraded with violence. More than a hundred
school children are being held hostage by armed people in a secondary
school in Beslan, in North Ossetia.
Three abducted World Food Programme Workers Freed in Sudan's Darfur Region "They were freed in the Tabit area south of Al Fasher after negotiations with the SLA and were taken to Al Fasher where they are all well and unharmed and they are being debriefed by a UN team to find out exactly what happened to them." The World Food
Programme says that while welcoming their release, it condemned the
targeting of humanitarian workers by armed groups.
The Secretary-General Calls On Ivorian Parties To Resolve Political Crisis
"He reminds the Ivorian parties of their personal responsibilities for ensuring that the commitment made in Accra are translated into concrete action on the ground that would urgently move the peace process forward." The Secretary-General's
report notes that the deployment of the UN Mission in Cote d'Ivoire
has had a general positive impact on the security situation in the
country.
UN Secretary-General Condemns Killing of Nepalese Civilians in Iraq The United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has strongly condemned the killing of
twelve Nepalese civilians in Iraq. In a statement issued late on Tuesday
Mr. Annan says he is appalled and dismayed by the gruesome murder
of the Nepalese hostages, and by their use as public spectacle. Eleven
of the hostages were shot dead and one man was beheaded. Mr. Annan
once again called for the immediate release of all hostages in Iraq
and appealed to all parties in Iraq to adhere to the fundamental precepts
of human rights and respect for human life.
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United Nations relief agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has
protested against Israel measures that prevent it from carrying out
its work. UNRWA warns that the ongoing closure of the Erez Crossing
into the Gaza Strip which began on Tuesday is seriously damaging its
ability to carry out its humanitarian mandate in the occupied Palestinian
territory. The agency also says that Israeli authorities have taken
unprecedented and serious action of barring its Commissioner-General,
Peter Hansen, from leaving Gaza to carry out his duties in the West
Bank. UNRWA points out that it is unprecedented for the executive
head of a UN agency to have his freedom of movement flagrantly curtailed
by a member of the United Nations in this way.
The
United Nations Children's Fund has expressed outrage about the taking
of children as hostages by an armed gang in a school in Southern Russia.
UNICEF says it is appalled at the situation in the town of Beslan,
and a spokesperson for the Fund, Angela Hawke says, children should
never be used for political purposes:
Three
workers from the World Food Programme, WFP, who had been abducted
last weekend by Sudanese rebels in the western Darfur region of Sudan,
have been released. The UN food agency's staff and three members of
the Sudanese Red Crescent disappeared in North Darfur on Saturday
while they were returning to the city of Al Fasher from registering
internally displaced people. WFP spokesman in Nairobi, Kenya, Peter
Smerdon says the relief workers were taken this morning by a WFP helicopter
to Al Fasher. 
The
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on political
parties in Cote d'Ivoire to implement the Accra Agreement to end the
political crisis in the country. In a report, issued today, the Secretary-General
is urging the parties to ensure the crucial adoption of legal reforms
and for revision of Article 35 of the constitution. This contentious
article on nationality and citizenship created the political crisis
because it disqualifies certain political leaders from standing for
the presidency. UN spokesperson Marie Okabe: