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Local elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will take place in the first half of next year, according to the United Nations mission in the country, which is known as MONUC.

United Nations humanitarian and development officials are monitoring the situation in the mountains of northern Viet Nam, where heavy rains resulting from a recent tropical storm have killed dozens of people and caused a series of flash floods and landslides.

A new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report showcases the voices of young people worldwide on how they view climate change and what they believe are the best means to tackle the issue.

A new strain of avian flu never before reported in Africa has been identified in Nigeria, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today.

The Security Council met today for the fourth time in less than three days to discuss the crisis engulfing Georgia, where large numbers of casualties have been reported as a result of fierce fighting between Georgian and Russian forces and thousands of civilians have been displaced from their homes.

Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has called on lawyers to play a greater role in guaranteeing countries live up to their commitments to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

The deadly conflict in Georgia seems to be spreading outside the South Ossetia region and into Abkhazia, a senior United Nations peacekeeping official told the Security Council today, warning that the number of casualties from the fighting is already substantial.

The Olympic athlete and Chinese basketball star Yao Ming has become the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) first-ever Environment Champion, the agency announced today in Beijing.

The suffering of indigenous peoples around the world “includes some of the darkest episodes in human history,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, marking the annual International Day of the World's Indigenous People.

The senior United Nations official in Sudan today welcomed the appointment of two top administrators to Abyei, a disputed area in the centre of the country whose status was not resolved in the 2005 peace deal ending the long-running north-south civil war.