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Groups in Sudan, Spain and Mozambique win UNESCO literacy prizes

A group in Sudan that helps thousands of war-displaced illiterate women improve family welfare, a Spanish movement tending the educational needs of immigrants from Africa and eastern Europe, particularly women, and a Mozambican literacy programme aimed at empowering communities have won United Nations literacy prizes for 2005.

Annan calls on rich and poor nations to 'close the deal' to end poverty

After many years of hard work and compromise, the world is now on the threshold of a breakthrough in the pursuit of development and human dignity, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today, calling on rich nations to provide the funding and poor nations to affect the necessary reforms to clinch the global deal to "make poverty history."

UN offers Kyrgyzstan support to protect Uzbek asylum-seekers

Amid mounting international concern over the forced deportation of Uzbek asylum-seekers who fled the recent military crackdown in their country to find safety in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, the assistant United Nations refugee chief today pledged to help the Kyrgyz Government protect the displaced during the search for durable solutions.

'Founding of the UN' photo exhibit opens at UN Headquarters

The United Nations' first meeting at a converted warehouse in Flushing, New York and Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting Winston Churchill aboard a British battleship are among the images at a 60th anniversary exhibit of rarely-seen photos of the UN's early years opening at the Organization's New York Headquarters today.