The United Nations top envoy for Western Sahara today implied he did not foresee any breakthroughs during the current year in the political impasse between the Moroccan Government and the Frente POLISARIO independence movement over the territory’s status.
Statistics on women not only help to track their status but can also directly improve their circumstances, a United Nations report released today argues, recommending that governments gather and publicize more gender-disaggregated data.
The head of the UN effort to combat the spread of the deadly bird flu virus today warmly welcomed donor pledges of $1.9 billion to fight the disease made at an international conference in China.
As hate media in Côte d'Ivoire broadcast messages inciting attacks against United Nations peacekeepers, diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis are intensifying, a spokesman for the world body said today.
The UN envoy for the world’s most vulnerable States today called for immediate international aid to help millions of people in Eastern Africa facing crippling food shortages.
With tensions persisting in Sudan’s Darfur province, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged more resources for the African Union (AU) mission in the region, while the Security Council considered future plans, including a possible United Nations force there.
Officials from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have received assurances from the Egyptian authorities that they will not deport Sudanese refugees in need of international protection who were involved in a fatal demonstration last month in a Cairo park, the agency announced today.
Thousands of rural households in northern Tunisia will be helped by a new $15.5 million loan from the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) that is part of a larger project aimed at improving the livelihoods of poor farmers and wage-workers.
Liberia's new president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, is urging tens of thousands of her compatriots who fled brutal civil war in their country to consider returning now to join in rebuilding it, the United Nations refugee agency said today.