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Although Guinea-Bissau continues to face major political, economic and financial challenges, the country remains peaceful, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a just-released report to the Security Council.

Concluding its annual conference today, the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) has adopted a series of measures designed to promote a more rigorous approach to tackling the challenges of globalization.

The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has issued an order to prevent violations of protective measures for witnesses after a Belgrade newspaper disclosed the identity of a confidential informant last month.

In a move which was welcomed by United Nations officials, Switzerland –hosts of the European headquarters of the world body – today formally signed its application to join the UN.

The United Nations will supervise a new crossing point on the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia as part of the UN’s oil-for-food scheme, which allows Baghdad to use a portion of its petroleum revenues to purchase humanitarian relief supplies, a UN spokesman announced today.

A rebel group in Sri Lanka has assured the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) that it will not recruit anyone under the age of 18 years into their armed forces, the UN agency said today.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has honoured Cathay Pacific airlines for raising nearly $5 million over the past decade by encouraging its passengers to donate their unused foreign currency to the UN agency.

Forensics experts from Argentina have begun a preliminary investigation of mass graves of people killed during the 10-year civil conflict in Sierra Leone, the United Nations Mission in the country (UNAMSIL) announced today.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has welcomed a United States initiative to provide an additional $500 million in the years to come for efforts designed to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

As the United Kingdom handed over its command of a multinational force for Afghanistan to Turkey today, a United Nations official in Kabul stressed that even with the improved security situation nationwide there was no room for complacency.