More than 30 countries have taken measures to combat "mad cow disease" but more precautions are needed to protect against its spread, the United Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today announced a partnership with The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation to bring new impetus to the battle against the virus.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today launched a new initiative aimed at closing the digital divide between rich farmers in developed countries and poor rural communities in developing countries through the use of technologies that can increase food production.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) confirmed today that the planned visit by Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte to Belgrade had been postponed, and no new date has been yet set.
The National Council of East Timor today unanimously passed an amended regulation on the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission and in a related move asked the United Nations Transitional Administrator to set up a tribunal to prosecute perpetrators of serious human rights violations in the territory.
A two-day series of seminars sponsored by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) opened today in New York to explain how companies can do business with the world organization and to link suppliers to buyers in international organizations.
The upcoming special session of the United Nations General Assembly on HIV/AIDS will be an important part of UN efforts to fight the epidemic and a major step in raising awareness about the disease, UN Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said today.
Observing the first ever World Refugee Day, the United Nations today highlighted the plight of people displaced by conflict and natural disaster and called for respect for the 1951 Geneva Convention, the bedrock of the international system for protecting refugees, which marks its 50th anniversary this year.
On the third day of his visit to the United Kingdom, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today received an honorary law degree from Oxford University, which hailed him as "a far-sighted partisan of justice and a tireless advocate of peace."