A Belgian businessman has bequeathed a collection of art masterpieces potentially worth $40 million to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the UN agency announced today.
The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) announced today that an agreement had been reached between the peacekeeping operation and the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) for the deployment of the country's police force to two towns in the centre of the territory.
Experts and diplomats from the 178 countries that are parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer gathered in that city today, to review options for further tightening the international regime for protecting the stratospheric ozone layer.
Registered voters will now have two more days, until 27 July, to confirm that their names are on the electoral roll for the upcoming elections, the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) announced today.
A proposed global fund to finance the fight against AIDS and other infectious diseases has received pledges of close to $1.4 billion, according to the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General, which is tracking the donations.
As part of the ongoing United Nations efforts to address the AIDS pandemic through its peacekeeping operations, the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) today announced that it has begun training its military and civilian staff to educate others about the deadly disease.
The upcoming world conference on racism promises to be a significant event that will permanently change the way that racism issues are viewed and dealt with, the United Nations top human rights official said today.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is increasingly concerned about outbursts of violence directed against Afghans living in Iran, a spokesman for the agency said today.
Iraq has earned an estimated €342 million (euros) by exporting 15.9 million barrels of crude over the past week - more than doubling revenues from the previous seven-day period under the "oil-for-food" programme, the United Nations office overseeing the humanitarian effort said today.
The top United Nations management official left Lebanon today after interviewing peacekeepers as part of his investigation of the handling of a controversial videotape that may relate to last year's kidnapping of three Israeli soldiers by Hizbollah.