Rapports

SG/SM/8156 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is saddened and distressed by the death of Kamal Hamdan, a staff member of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in…

Cases of malnutrition among Palestinian children under five years of age has more than doubled in the past year because of the Israeli security blockade Christian Aid has revealed. A Palestinian medical charity funded by Christian Aid says this is…

UNRWA Press Release HQ/G/09/2002 Gaza - March 6, 2002 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has protested in the strongest possible terms to the Israeli Government at the damage done to its award-winning school for the blind…

Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) condemns the Israeli killing of Dr. Khalil Suleiman, the Director of the Red Crescent emergency services in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. Dr Suleiman was killed on 4 March when an Israeli tank shell…

In Jenin today, the Israeli army opened fire on a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance, killing the Head of Emergency Services, Dr Khalil Suleiman, and injuring two ambulance workers. The army also opened fire on another ambulance, hitting it with…

Christian Aid's emergencies journalist Dominic Nutt has just returned from the Gaza Strip, where he became one of several staff members to experience Israeli bombing and shooting. I spent a week in Gaza, a small strip of land illegally occupied…

PAL/1907 GAZA, 4 March (UNRWA) -- Peter Hansen, Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), has urged the Israeli Government to heed the United Nations Secretary General's call for an immediate withdrawal of Israeli…

SG/SM/8147 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is increasingly concerned at the intensifying cycle of violence, reprisals and counter-violence between Israel and the Palestinians, culminating in the latest shocking wave over the weekend…

The following statement was issued by Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sunday, 3 March 2002, in Bahrain: I learned with shock and horror of the killing yesterday in Jerusalem of nine Israelis, including two babies and a…

WOM/1321 Background Release The gender perspective in environmental management and the eradication of poverty through the empowerment of women will be the two thematic issues the Commission on the Status of Women will consider during its forty-sixth session, opening at…