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United Nations civilian personnel at overseas duty stations have suffered an unprecedented number of physical attacks leading to hostage-taking, injuries and death, but the UN Security Coordinator's office has been strengthened for an ever widening range of missions, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report on staff safety issued today.

The head of the United Nations drug and crime office has reported that sub-Saharan Africa is the region most impacted by organized crime, and that outlaws were increasingly turning to high technology.

Diplomats in the United Nations General Assembly's disarmament committee have expressed grave concern about the future of multilateralism, especially in the context of disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation, the panel's chairman said.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called upon all nations to “rededicate” themselves to protecting children with mental health problems.

The United Nations Security Council today welcomed security agreements reached between the Sudanese Government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) that would help settle the long conflict.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that “ideally” he would like to see a new resolution on Iraq passed before the convening of a donor’s conference on that country, scheduled for later this month in Madrid.

The United Nations human rights office said today it had learned "with great consternation" of the shooting in Brazil of a second person who had spoken to a UN expert investigating extrajudicial killings in that country, which a spokesman said was indicative of the very problem the expert had been studying.

A worldwide shortage of health care workers and high crime in some areas of greatest medical need are obstructing efforts to control tuberculosis (TB) by 2005, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report released today.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today deplored the killing of Palestinian civilians, including two children, by an Israeli Defence Force missile during Israel's incursion today into the Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza Strip.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appointed former Rugby World Cup-winning captains Nick Farr-Jones of Australia and David Kirk of New Zealand as ambassadors for the “Tackle Hunger” campaign launched earlier this year after UN agency teamed up with Rugby World Cup (RWC).