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A United Nations study released today stresses the need for better management and cooperation among nations to address the economic, social and security issues caused by global migration.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on all countries that have not yet done so to ratify or accede to a global treaty against chemical weapons.

The United Nations today observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan urging the international community to renew its commitment to work for a “reinvigorated peace process” in the Middle East.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his hope to an international meeting on water, sanitation and hygiene that one day the world will no longer have to face the dire consequences of inadequate access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

The Security Council today renewed for another six months the 8,500-strong United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti after hearing a report from Secretary-General Kofi Annan outlining a deteriorating security situation with a surge of violence in the impoverished Caribbean country.

Over 100,000 Liberians have turned in guns, ammunition, rocket propelled grenades and other weapons to the United Nations peacekeeping force in their country, the head of the mission said today.

For the second time in a week the United Nations refugee agency today expressed “extreme concern” over the fate of thousands of Iranian Kurds caught up in the fighting in central Iraq without access to regular food rations.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is to carry out a major review of its activities to help ensure achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which include halving chronic hunger around the world within a decade.

Most of the world’s soccer ball production will go “green” under the terms of a declaration adopted unanimously this week at a United Nations-sponsored forum on environmental responsibility in the sports industry.

The world must more enthusiastically and effectively embrace modern technologies that reduce waste and repair environmental damage, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in a message to officials meeting in Japan.