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As a prelude to adopting a resolution on the situation in Western Sahara, the United Nations Security Council today held a full round of talks to discuss the positions of Members States as well as the proposed text, the current President of the 15-member body said.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today announced a partnership with amusement parks from around the world to raise funds for child vaccines.

Representatives of governments and civil society are set to examine how to create a dialogue within the United Nations human rights system over concerns about globalization.

The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has deplored an Israeli air attack that took place late Monday in the Gaza Strip which reportedly left 10 people dead and more than 100 injured, including women and children.

Just over three months after the start of a United Nations-backed programme to help Afghans return from Iran, the number of those repatriating has topped 100,000, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today.

The United Nations General Assembly today approved Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s proposal to appoint Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian national who had helped to guide East Timor to independence, as the world body’s next High Commissioner for Human Rights.

United Nations peacekeepers today handed over responsibility for the security of East Timor’s easternmost district to the country’s defence force, the first such transfer since the UN arrived in 1999.

A team of investigators from Italy will join the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) to help in the fight against financial crime and corruption in the province, the head of the Mission announced today.

Iraqi crude exports spiked to 9.8 million barrels over the past week – the highest volume over a seven-day period since the start, in late May, of the current phase of the United Nations oil-for-food programme, which allows Baghdad to use a portion of its petroleum revenues to purchase humanitarian relief.

Nearly 13 million people in southern Africa are at risk of starvation, James Morris, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Envoy on the humanitarian crisis in the region, said today.