The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the murder of a Bangladeshi journalist and voiced concern about the increasing frequency of such killings in the country.
The deadly typhoons and earthquakes that have recently struck Japan illustrates that even wealthy countries are vulnerable to natural hazards, the head of the United Nations disaster-reduction body said today.
Children - often girls forced into prostitution - are being trafficked throughout Laos and across its borders, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today, calling for urgent measures in response.
Afghanistan's interim President Hamid Karzai holds an insurmountable lead over his rivals with almost all of the votes now counted from the country's historic election on 9 October, the United Nations-Afghan body charged with supervising the poll process announced today.
While Afghanistan has made great progress since the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001, "gross violations of fundamental human rights" continue, from extrajudicial executions to inhuman detention to the frequent abuse or assault of women and girls, a United Nations expert says in his latest report to the General Assembly.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a 100,000-ton donation of maize from the Republic of Korea to the agency’s emergency operation providing aid to 6.5 million vulnerable people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Cambodia could become a breeding ground for terrorism if it does not receive urgently needed international cooperation to boost its ability to confront the scourge, the Chairman of the United Nations Security Council’s committee on sanctions against Al-Qaida and the Taliban warned today.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the decisions by Maoist insurgents and the Government of Nepal to halt fighting temporarily in observance of a national holiday.
Urging governments to improve the prevention and treatment of epilepsy, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is spotlighting the neurological disease, which induces seizures in at least 50 million people worldwide, with a new report on its occurrence in the Western Pacific region.
