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The United Nations is to host a meeting next month in New York of UN agencies, international financial institutions and Iraqi technical experts to boost the reconstruction and recovery of Iraq.

Faced with the conflicts and complex crises plaguing Africa, the United Nations Security Council today discussed ways to refine prevention and containment strategies by involving regional and global organizations and exploring the links between peace and security on the one hand and social and economic development on the other.

Commemorating the annual United Nations Staff Day, Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette paid tribute today to the courage and contributions of the many “unsung heroes” who lost their lives while working for the world body.

The United Nations World Health Organization’s (WHO) regional office for the Americas is set to launch the region’s first-ever Vaccination Week, with 19 countries mobilizing to immunize more than 15 million children under 5 and 2.7 million women of childbearing age.

The United Nations World Health Organization is set to remove Singapore from the list of areas with recent local transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), the agency said today.

The United Nations today observed the first International Day of UN Peacekeepers with a pledge from Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the world body’s peacekeeping mission would continue because, even if it cannot by itself end war, it can help prevent a recurrence of fighting.

The United Nations has again suspended mine clearance along parts of one of Afghanistan’s most important routes for commerce and relief aid after new attacks and threats to de-mining teams on the road between the capital, Kabul, and the southern city of Kandahar.

The United Nations civil aviation agency has adopted a global, harmonized blueprint for using advanced computerized recognition techniques to identify people by biological features unique to each individual.

Gearing up for World No Tobacco Day, the United Nations health agency today called on the film and fashion industries to stop glamourizing tobacco and urged them not to be used as vehicles of death and disease.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling on next week’s summit of top industrial countries to make good on their pledges to the developing world – some of which are in “grave danger” of not being met – ranging from trade and aid to AIDS, medicines and clean water.