ICRC highlights world's 'missing'
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The Red Cross says not enough is done to locate those missing as a result of conflicts and other violence.
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Peace activists around the world staged   a day of action on Sunday to highlight the "forgotten war" in   Darfur where tens of thousands of people have been killed and   more than 2 million left homeless.
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Equipment which could be used in an illicit nuclear bomb programme has disappeared from previously monitored sites in Iraq, and radioactively contaminated items from there have been found abroad, the International Atomic Energy Agency has told the UN.
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Atrocities in western Sudan as well as injustices in Zimbabwe, Lebanon and Burma have prompted American scientists to assist human rights organizations by devising tracking techniques using satellite imagery. The effort was made possible by benevolent donors and geospatial firms offering...
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New research shows mental illness is neglected in the developing world and up to 800,000 commit suicide each year.
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Researchers claim to have solved the mystery of the people who simply do not count. It could be because they are lost for words. The Piraha of the Amazon have almost legendary status in language research.
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The UN says Somalia is the world's forgotten crisis, with 15,000 children in need of urgent aid.
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International aid officials and development experts are voicing concern that the outpouring of generosity from the world's governments may deplete resources for other pressing needs in much poorer countries.
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Â· UN report bemoans states' lack of urgencyÂ·  Five-year study involved 1,400 scientists
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (27/12/04) - Some 14â000 people have been reportedly killed, many more missing and over a million displaced in south and southeast Asia after a powerful earthquake triggered off giant tidal waves or Tsunami slammed the coastal areas
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21 September 2004 - More than 600 people are dead and at least 1,000 others missing after Tropical Storm Jeanne tore through northern Haiti and the Dominican Republic at the weekend, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) reported
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Six weeks after a monstrous earthquake and tsunami wiped out thousands of communities along the shores of the Indian Ocean, leaving 300,000 dead or missing in 11 countries, daily tremors still rattle buildings and workers wearing masks still pull hundreds of bodies a day from the rubble.
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World leaders gathering at the United Nations confront a depressing global agenda dominated by new terrorist threats, a humanitarian disaster in Sudan, turmoil in Iraq, and a growing gap between the richest and poorest inhabitants of planet Earth.
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Once a matter of bitter disputes, the Iraq war is strangely missing from this summit of world powers. A new generation of leaders has turned attention to other problems &#151; from global warming to poverty in Africa &#151; while the war grinds into its fifth year and the U.S. death toll climbs past 3,500.
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Researchers claim to have solved the mystery of the people who simply do not count. It could be because they are lost for words.
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An estimated 12,000 people were killed in half a dozen countries across South and Southeast Asia, with thousands more missing or unreachable.
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Dec 23, 2004 -- On this Christmas Eve like every other, there will not be peace on all the Earth. That&#39;s especially true in a forgotten corner of East Africa, where thousands of children have been abducted