The first 80 of some 800 United Nations peacekeepers to be shifted from Sierra Leone to Liberia have crossed over the border, a UN spokesman said in New York today.
A great deal of information about the abuse and brutalization of children in wars has been disseminated, but has not been translated into coherent and concerted action to protect the rights of those youngsters, the senior United Nations official overseeing war-affected children says in a report released today.
The United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) today convened a meeting of experts to tackle the problem of stress and violence in the workplace.
The United Nations body charged with harmonizing international trade law must be strengthened so that all countries and businesses, large and small, will be able to participate on an equal legal footing in trade talks in the era of globalization, the UN legal counsel said.
The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called for assistance for millions of poor, hungry and displaced persons in East and Central Africa who he said are facing a cutback in funding precisely when their needs are the greatest.
The head of the United Nations mission in Kosovo today sent out formal invitations to the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia and Montenegro to participate in direct talks next week in Vienna.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today told a group of African-American civil society groups that he is “convinced that it is in America’s interest today to work through the United Nations.”
Delegates from more than 40 countries gathered today at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Ethiopia to look at ways to put science and technology within the grasp of all Africans, especially the poor.
The United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has discovered 65 bodies, mostly children, apparently massacred Monday, a UN spokesman said today.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the world body to change to better respond to the needs of the peoples of the world, rather than to their governments.