The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, will review progress in talks on Cyprus during the first week in April, a United Nations spokesperson announced today.
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) today announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at helping 10 developing countries ensure a gender-balanced approach to combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Iraq's crude exports under the United Nations oil-for-food programme plummeted to 11.4 million barrels last week, according to the UN office running the scheme, which allows Baghdad to use a portion of its petroleum revenue to purchase humanitarian relief.
Reacting to Saturday's killing of the Archbishop of Cali, Colombia, the United Nations has denounced the crime and called on the country's authorities to bring those responsible to justice.
There has been an upsurge in the number of East Timorese returning from camps across the border in West Timor, Indonesia, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced.
Two former officials accused of genocide during Rwanda’s 1994 civil war entered separate not-guilty pleas today during their first appearance before the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal (ICTR).
Appalled by Sunday’s grenade attack on a Christian church in Islamabad that had left several people dead and many wounded, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan strongly condemned the bombing as a “vicious act of terrorism.”
As the scientific community begins to give higher priority to the moral dimensions of economic and farming development, an expert panel set up by the United Nations agricultural agency met in Rome today to examine ethical issues related to globalization and agricultural intensification.
As world leaders assembled in Mexico today for the start of a United Nations forum on mobilizing resources for development, the heads of the UN economic commissions highlighted factors that blocked the flow of aid and development efforts in their regions, such as heavy debt and armed conflict.
The United Nations mission in Guatemala has called on that country's government to initiate an investigation into the murder of an opposition Partido Patriota (Patriot Party) member, a United Nations spokesperson announced today.