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The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that its ongoing partnership with the international publishing community has provided 43 new countries low-cost online access to health journals.

Somali children sent abroad in the expectation of a better life instead end up facing serious psychological and identity problems, and in extreme cases, are even forced into prostitution as part of an exploitative child-smuggling business, according to a new report released today by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have been meeting with representatives of the Government of Sri Lanka and Tamil Tiger rebel leaders this week to determine a possible role in returning an initial group of over 100,000 internally displaced Tamils, the UN agency said today.

After meeting with European officials today in the first of a series of talks before heading to Baghdad, the top United Nations weapons inspector said Iraq must offer more “proactive” cooperation with UN monitors in order to avoid military conflict.

There is a clear consensus within the international community of support for the diplomatic Quartet’s efforts to reach a permanent settlement to the situation in the Middle East based on two sovereign states, living side-by-side in peace and security, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council today.

With the end of fighting and the signing of a ceasefire accord between the Government and armed opposition groups, Angola has already overcome the most severe impediments to the protection and promotion of human rights in the country, the United Nations chief human rights official said shortly after arriving in Luanda.

After submitting a revised mandate for the United Nations Peace-building Support Office in Liberia (UNOL), Secretary-General Kofi Annan says that he is still waiting to hear from Freetown about the proposed changes.

Heavy rains in Malawi have resulted in flooding in many parts of the country, damaging homes, destroying crops and disrupting transportation, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today.

The top United Nations envoy guiding negotiations to end the conflict over Western Sahara has met with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to discuss proposals for a peaceful solution.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Adviser on Cyprus, Alvaro de Soto, met in Athens today with Greece's foreign minister and other senior officials.