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The Iraqi Government has agreed to move 3,100 Iranian Kurd refugees, who have been stuck in harsh and dangerous conditions near Ramadi, to a safer area in the north, the United Nations refugee agency said today.

On “World No Tobacco Day”, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) is urging health professionals to be more proactive in minimizing the problems caused by tobacco addiction, consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke.

With the assistance of the United Nations refugee agency, the final convoy of Angolan refugees has returned home from a southern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ending a refugee program that has run for 20 years.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will co-sponsor the second annual global walk against child hunger, with participants in over 90 countries across 24 time zones raising money to help fund school feeding projects worldwide.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has challenged world leaders to “move beyond rhetoric” and break the years-long deadlock over how to tackle nuclear arms and their proliferation.

With years of upheavals and neglect having damaged the farming sectors that provide major sources of protein for the Iraqi diet, the United Nations agricultural agency today has launched a project to benefit nearly 5 million people by restoring urgently needed veterinary services.

The United Nations refugee agency today expressed concern over the surprise relocation over the weekend of thousands of Rwandan asylum-seekers by Burundian authorities to an inadequately equipped northern transit centre in their post-conflict Great Lakes country.

Determining that the situation in Haiti continues to threaten international peace and security, the United Nations Security Council this afternoon extended the mandate of the UN mission to that country until 24 June, stating its intention to extend it further at that time.

Just back from a week-long visit to Sudan, United Nations Secretary-General today said that nearly $300 million pledged by international donors to expand an African-led peacekeeping mission in the Darfur region is “a good beginning” for the next phase of the programme to stem the ongoing crisis there.

With depleted uranium being a contaminant in Iraq, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today it will train Iraqi scientists and other nuclear experts in measuring the material and try to answer questions left hanging after it conducted studies in post-conflict Balkans and Kuwait.