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• France to urge UN to decriminalise homosexuality

  - 2008-05-17

  PARIS AFP — France plans to ask the United Nations to push for homosexuality to be decriminalised around the globe, a government minister said Saturday, as gays and lesbians worldwide marked the International Day Against Homophobia. Human Rights Minister Rama Yade told a delegation of French gay and lesbian...

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• Top UN election official vows to fight dismissal

  - 2005-12-06

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — The United Nations's top election official, Carina Perelli of Uruguay, on Tuesday vowed to fight her dismissal over sexual harassment charges, which she rejected as false and complained that she was being denied due process. "I will fight this dismissal and all the charges, which...

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• UN refugee chief steps down in face of sex allegations

  - 2005-02-20

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — The UN's top refugees official, Dutch ex-prime minister Ruud Lubbers, has resigned amid sexual harassment allegations, a UN spokesman confirmed. Lubbers had on Friday refused to resign after a meeting with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, which came hours after Britain's Independent newspaper published lurid...

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• UN diplomats give embattled Annan show of support

  - 2004-12-01

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — World diplomats gave a show of support for embattled Secretary General Kofi Annan, who is facing mounting criticism over the UN role in Iraqi oil sales under Saddam Hussein. The move came as a leading US senator investigating the UN's now defunct oil-for-food programme called...

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• UN staff ready historic no-confidence vote in Annan

  - 2004-11-19

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — UN employees are expected to issue an unprecedented vote of no confidence in Secretary-General Kofi Annan, union sources say, after he pardoned the body's top oversight official over a series of allegations. The UN staff union, in what officials said was the first vote of...

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• UN staff to vote on no-confidence motion against Annan

  - 2004-11-19

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — UN staff are expected to make an unprecedented vote of no confidence in Secretary-General Kofi Annan, union sources say, after a series of scandals tainted his term in charge of the world body. The UN staff union, in what officials said was the first vote...

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• UN staff union mulls no-confidence motion against senior UN management

  - 2004-11-19

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — The UN staff union was meeting to discuss a no-confidence measure against senior management of the United Nations, which has been hit by a series of scandals involving top UN officials. But sources said a planned vote could be put off until next week after...

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• UN staff to make historic vote of no confidence in Annan

  - 2004-11-18

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — UN employees were readying to make a historic vote of no confidence in scandal-plagued Secretary General Kofi Annan, sources told AFP. The UN staff union, in what officials said was the first vote of its kind in the more than 50-year history of the United...

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• Widespread rape, harassment still haunt Sudan's Darfur region: UN

  - 2004-08-30

  NAIROBI AFP ? Rape of women and girls and official harassment are still widespread in Sudan's western Darfur region, a senior United Nations official said, insisting that the government in Khartoum was not doing enough to protect displaced people. The UN Security Council in New York is expected to...

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• Rape and official harassment still widespread in Darfur: UN

  - 2004-08-30

  NAIROBI AFP ? Rape of women and girls and official harassment are still widespread in Sudan's Darfur region, a senior United Nations official said, as a Security Council deadline for Khartoum to end the violence in the western region expired. Meanwhile in the Nigerian capital Abuja, African Union mediators...

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