A relief operation to feed earthquake victims in El Salvador is in serious danger of falling short of resources, the lead United Nations food agency announced today.
About one third of the more than 26,000 cases of abduction recorded to date in Uganda involved children under the age of 18, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said today in Geneva.
More than 10,000 Somali refugees have arrived in the Kenyan border town of Mandera in the past two weeks, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said today.
Welcoming the withdrawal of a case by pharmaceutical companies against the Government of South Africa, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today expressed hope that this development would help increase access to AIDS medicines for those in need.
A global financial mechanism is urging United Nations Member States and the private sector to join it in fighting poverty by improving access to renewable energy technologies.
A continent-wide plan for fighting AIDS in Africa will be endorsed by next week's Summit meeting on infectious diseases in Abuja, Nigeria, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) announced today.
The deployment of United Nations peacekeepers in the Congolese town of Kisangani will resume on Friday morning, according to an arrangement reached today between the UN mission and the rebel group that had blocked the arrival of the 120-member Moroccan contingent on Sunday.
Troops from NATO's Stabilization Force (SFOR) today seized documents from the headquarters of an allegedly corrupt bank in Bosnia and Herzegovina, drawing no protests in contrast to previous raids, when demonstrators clashed with SFOR, UN and other international personnel.
Responding to the growing threat posed by malaria, which causes over a million deaths a year, United Nations agencies and international partners today began a two-day meeting in Washington, D.C., aimed at fighting the disease.