safety

Review meeting Chair Linda Keen

Meeting on nuclear power plant safety ends at UN atomic agency

25 April 2005
Nuclear officials from more than 50 countries have wrapped up a meeting at the Vienna headquarters of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency to share information and upgrade precautions in a bid to ensure the safety of nuclear power plants and prevent a repeat of a Chernobyl-style disaster.

Experts gather at UN atomic agency to boost nuclear power plant safety

12 April 2005
As part of an effort to ensure the safety of nuclear power plants and prevent a repeat of a Chernobyl-style disaster, top officials from more than 30 countries are meeting at the Vienna headquarters of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency to share information and upgrade precautions.

Three popular foods move closer to full safety certification by UN standards body

10 March 2005
In a move that could lead to an important increase in foreign exchange earnings for Near East countries, three highly popular regional foods advanced one step closer today to full international acceptance by the United Nations body that sets food safety, quality and trade standards.

UN-backed meeting urges steps to fight deadly contaminated food in Near East

7 March 2005
With nearly 260,000 people dying in the Near East every year from food and water-borne diarrhoea, safety regulators and experts from some 20 countries and international organizations at a United Nations-sponsored conference have called for increased surveillance and better data to improve food safety throughout the region.
Ducks sold at poultry market in Hanoi

UN warns Asia-Pacific faces acute food safety risk; ‘danger just round the corner’

24 May 2004
With one person dying every 45 seconds from food- and water-borne diseases in Asia and the Pacific alone, the area faces serious risks in densely populated zones, two United Nations agencies said today at the start of a regional meeting seeking to head off future threats to public health and international trade.

14 European states sign on to new air treaty with unlimited accident liability – UN

4 May 2004
A new international air treaty granting accident victims potentially unlimited compensation in place of the few thousand dollars offered by the previous system will become effective next month for 14 more European countries, the United Nations civil aviation agency has announced.

UN labour agency observes annual day promoting workplace safety

28 April 2004
In the 20th anniversary year of the massive Union Carbide factory gas leak that affected nearly 250,000 people in Bhopal, India, the United Nations labour agency today observed its annual "World Day for Safety and Health at Work" with a worldwide commemoration of those who lost life or health in workplace accidents.
Louise Fréchette addresses Assembly

UN urges reducing number of people killed by road crashes annually

14 April 2004
Although fatalism is being encouraged by use of the word "accidents" for vehicular collisions, people must be made aware that the crashes, now causing 1.2 million deaths per year, can be reduced or prevented, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said today.

General Assembly calls for meeting to emphasize traffic safety

5 November 2003
The United Nations General Assembly today decided to devote an entire session next year to the problems of road safety.

Secretary-General reports high number of attacks on UN staff overseas

10 October 2003
United Nations civilian personnel at overseas duty stations have suffered an unprecedented number of physical attacks leading to hostage-taking, injuries and death, but the UN Security Coordinator's office has been strengthened for an ever widening range of missions, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report on staff safety issued today.