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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) today warmly welcomed the commitment shown by donors at Thursday’s follow-up meeting in Geneva to the UN’s Humanitarian Appeal for 2006, but said more is needed particularly for those countries that traditionally get overlooked.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan's senior envoy to Iraq today decried recent bloodshed in the country and called on its people to demand that their leaders focus on protecting civilians and fostering a lawful society.

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned today that the drought devastating East Africa is deepening because of global climate change as well as the ongoing destruction of forests, grasslands, wetlands and other critical ecosystems.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today that lessons learned from dealing with November’s explosion at a petrochemical plant in northeastern China, which caused major river pollution, should influence government policy.

In time for negotiations for an international agreement on the rights of persons with disabilities, the United Nations will be able for the first time to produce materials directly in Braille thanks to the donation today of a state-of-the-art printer by a US-based non-governmental organization (NGO) for the blind.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed Greece’s donation of $471,000 to the agency’s relief operation helping hundreds of thousands of victims of a much-overlooked conflict in the West African State of Guinea-Bissau.

The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), today condemned the murder of an Indian reporter in the north of the country but said he was confident New Delhi would not allow the killing to undermine press freedom.

Suicide is the official cause of the death over the weekend of Lt. Gen. Urano Teixeira Da Matta Bacellar, then the Force Commander for United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti, the UN Mission in the country (MINUSTAH) said today.

Marking the 55th anniversary of the international Convention against Genocide, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the international community to strengthen its ability to prevent that horror and to take decisive measures against serious human rights violations that may foreshadow it.

As part of his campaign of United Nations reform, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed a panel of independent experts to explore redesigning its system of internal justice, a UN spokesman announced today.