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A regional meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, preparing for a major United Nation conference on environmental issues, has urged African countries to mobilize their efforts to promote sustainable development and called on the international community to support that undertaking.

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Catherine Bertini today named former United States Senator George McGovern as the agency's first Global Ambassador on Hunger.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the launch of an emergency operation to feed 300,000 people in Sri Lanka, where a severe and prolonged drought has pushed large segments of the population into hardship.

Roberto Garreton, an expert of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights who was reporting on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has submitted his resignation, citing conflicting mandates with a new advisory position he has just accepted.

The former Minister of Finance in the interim government of Rwanda in 1994 today pleaded not guilty to charges of genocide, the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda said in a statement issued at its Headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.

With the backing of United Nations agencies and other partners, tens of thousands of health workers and trained volunteers are set to immunize 80 million children under age five in West Africa as a synchronized polio vaccination campaign got under way today in the region.

Participants from over 100 countries meeting in Sri Lanka today adopted formal decisions that will guide international efforts to phase out chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone-depleting substances over the coming years and beyond, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

In what may be the largest one-day exodus since the start of the bombing campaign in Afghanistan, more than 3,500 Afghans entered Pakistan in "chaotic" conditions, the United Nations refugee agency said today.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said today that his agency - UNHCR - is prepared to care for Afghans fleeing their country but will require the cooperation of the region's States to succeed.

A senior official with the United Nations mine clearing programme in Afghanistan today voiced concern that people moving around in the areas that have been heavily bombarded could face additional risk from unexploded ordnance.