Security Council members today underlined the need for further reform of the security sector in Sierra Leone, especially by developing its police force.
Welcoming the efforts by the Central African Republic (CAR) Government to fight corruption and establish good governance, members of the United Nations Security Council today stressed the importance of implementing the necessary reforms.
Mayors from 50 Asian cities gathered at a United Nations-sponsored meeting in Bangkok have agreed to work together to overcome poverty, the devastating effects caused by war, and lack of access to clean water.
Painting a devastating portrait of the impact of AIDS on families, a new United Nations report released today says that the number of children around the world who will lose one or both parents to the disease will almost double by the end of the decade.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today urged countries to avoid using criminal law to deal with conduct that carries the risk of transmitting the deadly virus and instead employ public health laws together with suitable protection for human and civil rights.
A Bosnian Serb suspected of involvement in mass rapes during the Balkans war in the early 1990s was transferred today to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague where he will face charges of crimes against humanity.
The United Nations Security Council today held an open debate in an effort to resolve the impasse over linkages between UN peacekeeping operations and the International Criminal Court (ICC) - a contentious issue that recently threatened to derail the extension of the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH).
A strong and effective Economic and Social Council is essential for the United Nations to be able to play a leading role in helping the people of the world achieve a better future, Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said today as the Council began a discussion on how to strengthen ECOSOC, as it is known, and follow up recent UN conferences.
The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) today announced the resumption of commercial traffic along the Congo River for the first time since war broke out in the country in August 1998, and said the move would help boost the local economy.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) today rejected a request by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for provisional measures against Rwanda over what Kinshasa alleged was Kigali's aggression on its territory.