Collaboration among governments, corporations and civic groups can help create a better future for the world’s children, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.
The top United Nations envoy for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, met today in Kabul with visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to review the latest developments in the country.
In anticipation of next week's elections in Sierra Leone, the top United Nations military official in the country toured two former strongholds of the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) to assess the general security situation and to get an update on the preparations being made by UN peacekeepers to support the balloting.
The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, will head next week to Cyprus before travelling to Indonesia and then East Timor, where he will attend independence celebrations for the nascent country, a UN spokesman announced today.
Young people around the world are the greatest victims of environmental degradation, with 5,500 children dying each day from diseases caused by water and food polluted with bacteria, according to a new study released today by three United Nations agencies.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Shanghai's Tongji University will establish a joint institute to develop educational programmes and provide monitoring in support of sustainable development, UNEP announced today.
Philanthropist Bill Gates today joined the head of the main United Nations children's agency to launch the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) - a new initiative aimed at helping eliminate the vitamin and mineral deficiencies that threaten more than 2 billion people.
The General Assembly's special session on children - a landmark review of progress since the 1990 World Summit on Children - entered its second day today with top-level debate in plenary meetings while negotiations continued on an action plan slated for adoption at the conclusion of the conference on Friday.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today called attention to the plight of the world's 10 million children who have been forced to flee their homes.
United Nations and East Timorese officials today opened a new customs post at the border with West Timor, Indonesia, a further step in the normalization of relations between the fledgling nation and its neighbour.