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Archive (26 August 2005)

Today's Features

Young South Africa Water Scientists Win This Year's Junior Water Prize

UNMIL Doctors Perform Major Surgery in Monrovia

Today's News

World Water Week Concludes in Stockholm with Call to World Leaders to Speed Up Provision of Safe Water and Sanitation to All

WHO Declares TB an Emergency in Africa

Security Council Calls For Cooperation with Investigation into Murder of Lebanese Ex-Prime Minister

Egeland Warns Zimbabwe on Verge of Worst Food Crisis Since 1994

Caribbean News

The anti-discrimination committee encourages Barbados to monitor trends that can give rise to segregation;Antigua and Barbuda sings the praises of the UN;Dominica describes the UN 60th anniversary;UNESCO observes the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition;WHO warns that the world is far from achieving the Millennium Development Goals

UN Calling Asia

The women of Bougainville begin the long haul of recovery after a protracted war A film on trafficking in India shows that those who should protect victims are often those who abuse them and an update on the upcoming parliamentary elections in Afghanistan: the UN is cautiously optimistic.

Perspective

Towards a Convention to Protect the Rights of Persons with Disabilities