UN to discuss child abuse claims
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The UN says it will discuss the issue of child abuse by UN troops, following allegations uncovered by the BBC.
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The United Nations Children's Fund confirmed a case in Indonesia of trafficking in children orphaned or separated from parents by the Indian Ocean tsunami as ravaged countries were warned to be on high alert for kidnappers.
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The UN Security Council is to meet behind closed doors today on the crisis threatening to reawaken central Africaâs devastating six nation war in Congo, Africaâs third-largest nation.
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The UN highlights the plight of children orphaned by the tsunami disaster, some of whose lives are at risk.
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A senior U.N. official on Friday  called sexual abuse a "cancer" in the Democratic Republic of  the Congo and told military and civilian leaders they had to  condemn it publicly and prosecute offenders.
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Organisers of the 2008 Beijing Olympics say they are looking into reports of child labour and worker abuse.
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The United Nations is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N. civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded on videotape, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.
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The United Nations said on Tuesday it was concerned children orphaned or separated from their parents by Asia's tsunami may be falling prey to criminal gangs bent on selling them into slavery.
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The UN urges an independent investigation into reports of human rights abuses in Ethiopia's Ogaden region.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - The United Nations will launch  a global appeal for $30 million in emergency aid to help Haiti  recover from floods that killed hundreds of people, the  executive director of UNICEF said on Wednesday on a visit to  the impoverished Caribbean nation.
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The UN Security Council is to hold emergency talks over the killing of dozens of Congolese Tutsi refugees in Burundi.
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The UN is leading a day of global events to mark the abolition of slavery and to highlight continuing abuses.
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UNITED NATIONS -- A senior UN official yesterday called sexual abuse a ``cancer" in the Democratic Republic of Congo and told military and civilian leaders they had to condemn it publicly and prosecute offenders.
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The UN calls for an independent investigation into reports of human rights abuses in Ethiopia's Ogaden region.
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The United Nations atomic watchdog agency was set to hear a report on Iran Wednesday that could bring Tehran one step closer to a third round of UN sanctions against its nuclear programme.
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The kidnapping and torture of  children by a Uganda religious sect was high on the list of a  new United Nations appeal Thursday for the world's forgotten  tragedies.
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THE UN is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by UN civilian staff and soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, some of it recorded on videotape, a senior UN official confirmed yesterday.