A United Nations human rights expert on the question of torture today announced plans to visit Uzbekistan later this month at the Government's invitation.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today launched a massive effort to provide identity cards to refugees and asylum seekers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighbouring Congo, a spokesman for the agency said in Geneva.
The United Nations human rights expert on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography will visit France next week at the invitation of the Government.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced serious concern about Israeli actions in response to the shooting in the West Bank today of a British worker supervising a project of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
The creation of a fund to help Palestinians with employment and social protection has received strong support from the United Nations International Labour Organization's (ILO) Governing Body, which concluded a two-week session today in Geneva.
Despite assurances that asylum seekers would not be deported following the expulsion of nine Afghans in September, the United Nations refugee agency today said the government of Tajikistan had expelled five more Afghans from the country last week.
A draft framework for an all-inclusive power-sharing arrangement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been prepared by the United Nations and South African mediation team in Pretoria, a UN spokesman in New York said today.
Immigrants and refugees should not - and must not - be seen as a burden, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in The Hague upon the launch of a document containing 21 principles for more humane government policies to deal with migrants.
More than 400 government representatives have pledged to strengthen cooperation in the implementation of a United Nations treaty to fight desertification, as a two-week discussion on ways to improve action against the spread of drylands wrapped up today in Rome.