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The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is in the midst of a three-nation regional tour, which has included stops in Indonesia, India and Timor-Leste, the agency's 189th and newest Member State.

There are between 330,000 and 460,000 firearms in civilian hands in Kosovo, most of the weapons unregistered and uncontrolled, according to a United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) report launched today in Pristina.

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), holding its annual session in Geneva, today organized a panel to examine ways to collaborate on rural development with a view to realizing internationally agreed upon development goals.

With 300,000 households in southern Sudan in dire need of seeds and tools, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has for the first time delivered a substantial amount of both items by road for tens of thousands of people in previously inaccessible rebel held areas in the Nuba Mountains.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Representative in Kosovo, Michael Steiner, ended his assignment today after a year and a half’s tenure, during which he reported improvements in security in the ethnically-riven province but warned that huge challenges still remained in bringing Albanians and Serbs together.

The top United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process strongly condemned last night's suicide bombing in central Israel, which killed a 65 year-old woman, and called for political and security talks to continue at full speed.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Mozambique today for a five-day visit that will be highlighted by his address to the African Union summit.

As the United Nations readies the rescue ship Overbeck for a second roundtrip voyage ferrying Sierra Leonean refugees from Monrovia home to Freetown, humanitarian workers are still struggling to help thousands of other desperate refugees and displaced people stranded in makeshift camps throughout the besieged Liberian capital.

A UN refugee agency team went to the northern Iraqi town of Kalar today to look into reports that large numbers of Iranians had left Al Tash camp, west of Baghdad, and relocated to the north because of insecurity and lack of assistance.

Goals set by the United Nations Millennium Summit to lift millions of people out of poverty by 2015 can only be achieved if poor countries pursue wide-ranging reforms and wealthy nations respond with improved trade terms and increased aid, according to the UN Development Fund (UNDP) annual flagship report released today.