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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is rushing emergency medicine, blankets and baby bodysuits to children in Puno, Peru, where thousands of young lives are in danger because of freezing temperatures.

Top United Nations envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, back in Baghdad after updating the Security Council on the situation in Iraq, met with a visiting team from Human Rights Watch today to discuss ways of improving human rights in the country.

United Nations agencies have teamed up to organize a preparatory meeting for an international forum next year that would aim to keep the social and economic issues and needs in the occupied Palestinian territories on the agenda of the international community, in spite of the lack of stability in the region.

The war on terrorism has not been won, and although both committees established by the United Nations Security Council to fight it have made “significant contributions,” individuals are becoming complacent and countries more casual, the panels’ chairmen said today.

As the conflict in and around Monrovia rages on, with mortar rounds landing near a United Nations compound in the Liberian capital, a senior UN relief official warned today that thousands of lives were at risk if the fighting did not end soon.

The United Nations mission in Guatemala has issued an urgent call to the Government to “guarantee the security of the population within the strict framework of respect for human rights” after violence erupted at a political rally yesterday.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a report released today, laments that the core political issue to the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict – the future status of Abkhazia – has not yet been addressed despite the opportunities provide by interested parties.

Calling it a task of “crucial importance,” United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today launched a new partnership with the global private sector aimed at achieving targets set at the 2000 Millennium Summit to halve extreme poverty, halt the spread of HIV/AIDS and provide universal primary education by 2015.

The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has strongly denounced the reported transport of a cache of ammunition seized on a plane that landed in Beni and said it has launched a thorough investigation into the origins of the flight, the material and the intended destination.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the restoration of constitutional order in São Tomé and Príncipe and commended regional and international mediation efforts for the negotiated end to a coup in the Central African island state.