Canada's Child Exploitation Tracking System was officially launched today, 27 months after a frustrated detective with the Toronto police department sent an E-mail message to Bill Gates requesting help with his department's effort to track down and prosecute child-pornography producers and consumers.
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Indonesian officials have slashed by 60 percent their estimate of the number of people missing in Aceh province after the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami, because of better data collection.
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The Ivory Coast's government, rebels and opposition leaders agreed in Pretoria yesterday to end the hostilities which have ravaged the world's top cocoa-producing state, killed thousands of people and left millions homeless since 2002.
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via PTI | GNN staff |
Thu April 07, 2005
Thirty passengers, including five women from Muzaffarabad, arrived here to a rousing welcome here by the local population led by Jammu and Kashmir minister Taj Mohiuddin.
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In a move that could have major implications for India, a member of the European Parliament (EP) is proposing a ban on import of products stemming from child labour to the 25-member European Union.
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Officials have rescued or prevented 30,530 children from the worst forms of labour over the last three years, an official of the Tanzanian Ministry of Labour and Youth Development, said on Wednesday.
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The U.S. Navy has dispatched two vessels to Indonesia's earthquake-stricken Nias Island, a Pentagon spokesman said March 30.
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The newly-elected Iraqi President Jalal al-Talabani pledged on Wednesday to consolidate national unity in the insurgency-plagued country.
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Syria's president has formally promised that all Syrian troops and intelligence agents will be withdrawn from Lebanon by 30 April. Syria also has agreed to allow UN monitors to verify the withdrawal.
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As peace takes hold in southern Sudan after an agreement between the Government and rebels ended Africa’s longest-running civil war, United Nations agencies are redoubling efforts to prepare for the return of 4.5 million refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) and lay the ground for social and economic development.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today remembered Pope John Paul II as a "tireless advocate of peace," while the General Assembly President Jean Ping recalled how the pontiff made great contributions towards upholding the values of the world body.
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The State Forestry Administration (SFA) released a blacklist of 10 major cases of forest destruction since 2003 on Wednesday, unveiling a national campaign to crack down on deforestation.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed a statement by Rwanda's main rebel group that it condemns the 1994 genocide in that country, renounces the use of force and will disarm, return peacefully to Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and cooperate with the international justice system.
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US First Lady Laura Bush visited Afghanistan for the first time yesterday to promote education for women, which was forbidden by the Taleban government overthrown by US-led forces three years ago.
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