Europe

Fossil fuel releases causing global warming

UN officials hail Russian approval of Kyoto climate change treaty

30 September 2004
United Nations officials today welcomed the Russian Government's endorsement of the Kyoto Protocol regulating emissions linked to climate change - a move that brings the pact one step closer to enforcement.

Annan selects Swiss legal professor to uphold rights of internally displaced

22 September 2004
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed a legal professor from Switzerland with a long record of human rights advocacy as his Representative on the human rights of the world's 24.6 million internally displaced persons (IDPs).

UN and partners agree to focus on Kosovo's economy, security and Belgrade ties

22 September 2004
Seeking to bring stability to Kosovo, officials from Europe, the United Nations and NATO meeting at the UN have agreed on the need to focus on the troubled province's economy, security, relations with Belgrade and Serb participation in the reform process, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.
Returnees rebuilding Kijevo village

More than 1 million people uprooted by Bosnian war have returned home - UN

21 September 2004
More than 1 million people uprooted by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina a decade ago have now returned to their home, the United Nations refugee agency announced today, appealing to the international community to continue reconstruction assistance to the struggling country.

UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia adds two judges to ease workload

21 September 2004
Two judges from Denmark and Germany were today sworn in to serve temporarily on the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as part of the court’s bid to complete its work by 2010.

Governments urged by UN to take action against HIV/AIDS in Europe

16 September 2004
Alarmed by the rise of HIV/AIDS infection rates in Europe and Central Asia, two United Nations agencies today urged governments in the region to take practical actions to protect their populations from the epidemic.
Ten-year-old Luize was taken hostage, but survived

UNICEF to help traumatized young survivors of Russian school massacre

16 September 2004
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today announced plans to help hundreds of young survivors traumatized by this month's school massacre in southern Russia to "pick up the pieces" by supporting their psychological rehabilitation and restoring their faith in schooling.

UN war crimes tribunal delays Miloševic trial by nearly a month

15 September 2004
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today adjourned the already long-running genocide trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševic again, this time for almost a month, to allow his recently appointed defence lawyers more time to prepare their case.

UN agency strikes cooperation deal with European Commission to fight hunger

13 September 2004
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) signed an agreement today with the European Commission to work more closely together to achieve one of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – eradicating the extreme hunger and poverty that persists in the developing world.

Greek-language school set up in northern part of Cyprus, with help of UN

13 September 2004
With the help of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cyprus, the Greek Cypriot enclave of Rizokarpasso in the northern part of the island now has its first Greek-language secondary school.