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Just back from a week-long mission to Sudan’s troubled Darfur region – scene of what is currently considered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis – a United Nations rights expert today called for the country to foster a national identity based on inclusiveness and not race, culture or religion.

Aiming to avert a potential humanitarian catastrophe, United Nations aid coordinators have opened an office in the Somali region of Ethiopia to provide assistance in the areas devastated by drought.

The lives of many rare and endangered sea turtles may be spared if fishermen trolling for swordfish would attach bait to circular hooks that are too large for turtles to swallow instead of the smaller hook now in use, according to a new report co-sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

In an effort to improve agricultural productivity and reduce hunger and poverty in Latin America, United Nations agencies are launching an international campaign this week on education for the tens of millions of rural people throughout the continent.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rushing aid to the impoverished Svaneti region of northwest Georgia where floods have destroyed over 70 per cent of crucial crops such as potatoes and hay, washed away pasture land and domestic animals, and damaged homes, some beyond repair.

The United Nations emergency feeding agency will be able to resume cereal distribution to nearly 2 million hungry people in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) following a major shipment of Russian aid, but has still only received little more that a quarter of the total aid sought for 2004.

Afghanistan’s voter registration programme will largely finish on 15 August, the country’s electoral authorities announced today, as results indicate that more than 90 per cent of the estimated eligible pool of citizens have already enrolled to vote.

Culminating two days of talks in Accra, Ghana, the parties in Côte d'Ivoire have pledged to fully and unconditionally carry out commitments outlined in past peace accords, the United Nations announced.