UN focus on Iraq education crisis
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Poor facilities are limiting schooling opportunities for many children in post-Saddam Iraq, says Unicef.
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As Iraq&#39;s elections due on Jan. 30 draw near, the US appeals to key allies and international organizations, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the United Nations
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Iraq was in the grip of a civil war as U.S. and Iraqi forces attacked insurgent bases in a bid to shore up the authority of a governmnent itself riven by factional rivalries.
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The UN&#39;s special envoy in Iraq says the country&#39;s political transition remains fragile and has expressed concern about meeting the timetable for elections.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Monday on the Iraqi government to do more to foster national unity, warning the violence-ridden country was in "grave danger" of collapsing into civil war.
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WASHINGTON - Federal law enforcement authorities notified six school districts in five states last month that a CD found by the U.S. military in Iraq contained crisis-planning information about their schools, two U.S...
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Iraq&#39;s children are in dire straits, UNICEF said on Wednesday as it appealed for 42 million dollars to help those caught up in the horrors of sectarian killings, economic insecurity and mass migration.
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The Gaza violence has forced the United Nations to suspend most of its relief operations for Palestinians trapped in the middle. How the fighting is affecting education and aid.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations is taking the first steps to expand its presence in Iraq outside Baghdad to the cities of Basra and Erbil but is planning to have only about 25 electoral specialists in the country ahead of the scheduled Jan. 30 elections, a UN spokesman said yesterday.
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Two million Iraqi children are facing threats including poor nutrition, lack of education and violence, Unicef says.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday that with the help of the United Nations, the technical preparations for Iraq&#39;s elections in January are on track, but continued violence would affect the process.
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BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Tuesday he has asked the United Nations to send troops to help secure elections promised in January and voiced concern over a manpower shortage in the Iraqi police.
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UN chief Kofi Annan urges Iraq's interim government to reach out to the Sunni Muslim minority ahead of elections.
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The World Bank says education in the Arab World lags behind other regions and needs urgent reform.
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NEW YORK A dangerous outgrowth of the deadly bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad a year ago has been an orgy of outrage and self-pity that has increasingly paralyzed the UN&#39;s capacity to respond meaningfully to needs in Iraq that it
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Iraq's interim government complained Wednesday that the United Nations isn't doing enough to help prepare for January elections, saying the organization has sent fewer electoral workers than it did when tiny East Timor voted to secede from Indonesia.
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The U.N. Secretary-General urged Iraqis to take advantage of the recent decrease in violence and deaths to work across ethnic, sectarian and political lines for national reconciliation.