United Nations agencies and non-governmental organization (NGO) partners are bringing assistance to some 330,000 people left homeless by floods in northwestern Sudan.
Security Council members today condemned the recent killing of a United Nations police officer in Kosovo, underscoring their support for the work of the UN mission there and appealing for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
A top United Nations relief official is on her way to Liberia to help strengthen the world body’s response to the deepening humanitarian crisis in the war-torn West African country.
The Security Council today heard a briefing from the prosecutor for the United Nations war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia as it met behind closed doors to mull the possibility of creating separate prosecutor's offices for the two courts.
In a strongly worded emergency report spotlighting the dire situation in war-ravaged Liberia, the Acting United Nations rights chief said today that Liberian government and rebel leaders should not be allowed to escape responsibility for ''gross violations of human rights.''
With parts of Pakistan struggling to cope with the floods and mudslides caused by torrential monsoon rains, the United Nations has mounted a major response to help provide food, medical supplies and clean water to what they fear may be thousands of people left stranded throughout the region.
Two United Nations agencies signed a new agreement today to strengthen their cooperation in reducing child malnutrition in Latin American and the Caribbean and to improve the livelihoods of the poorest families in the region.
Projected deaths from tobacco use worldwide, which at present kills 4.9 million people every year, could rise appreciably in light of a new report showing that young girls are smoking cigarettes almost as much as young boys, the United Nations health agency reported today.
The top United Nations envoy in Iraq today strongly condemned the deadly attack on the Jordanian diplomatic mission in Baghdad as a “heinous act” which resulted in the deaths of numerous innocent people and for which there could be no possible justification.
Betel-quid and areca-nut chewing, a traditional habit widely practiced in many parts of Asia, causes oral cancer even when not chewed in combination with tobacco, according to new findings released by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today.