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United Nations peacekeepers in Côte d’Ivoire have launched a campaign to help teach children to recognize and avoid unexploded ordnance, after two children were killed in an accident in a central district as the West African country emerges from civil strife.

Supachai Panitchpakdi, former Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and a strong advocate of a fair globalization deal for poorer nations, today took over as head of the United Nations agency that seeks to promote the development-friendly integration of developing countries into the world economy.

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) signed an agreement with the European Commission today to establish a rapid response programme to prevent contagious foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) entering from areas outside Europe and affecting farm animals.

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) has begun delivering help, including emergency oxygen units and drugs, after about 1,000 pilgrims, many of them women and children, died and many others were injured in the crush of a crowd crossing a bridge over the Tigris River in Baghdad yesterday.

The critical role of United Nations Volunteers (UNV) in promoting the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be highlighted at Expo 2005 at the UN Pavilion in Aichi, Japan this month.

A day after naming four more high-level suspects, the United Nations inquiry into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri announced today that it would seek an extension of its three-month mandate to complete its work.

A group of India’s star cricketers went to bat for some of Zimbabwe’s 1.3 million orphans yesterday, listening to the problems faced by the youngsters and visiting an education project supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

The United Nations Security Council has authorized Secretary-General Kofi Annan to provide $103 million to the peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for logistic support as voters register for the upcoming election in the vast country.

The top United Nations emergency relief official has offered the United States the world body’s help in “any way possible” following the loss of life and large-scale destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina along the country's Gulf Coast.

The situation in United Nations-administered Kosovo has greatly improved since the riots of March 2004, but there are new threats from organized crime and corruption and the next few months may be difficult as the ethnically divided province moves towards a decision on its final status, the top UN envoy said today.