Needy ex-fighters and their families in Afghanistan have begun receiving United Nations food packages under an initiative of the country's New Beginning Programme.
Former Croatian General Ante Gotovina was transferred today to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague, where he faces charges of murder and inhumane acts committed against the Serb population during the conflict that engulfed the Balkans in the 1990s.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal concluded today with the adoption of more than forty decisions that will strengthen global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Liberia's past hisory of abuse against civilians is fading as stability takes hold, the senior United Nations envoy to the country told hundreds Liberian youth gathered at a Human Rights Day ceremony organized by the UN Mission (UNMIL), the Transitional Government and civil society organizations.
Voicing new concern over Colombia’s decades-long civil conflict, which has already displaced 2 million people, the United Nations refugee agencies warned today that the country’s 1 million indigenous people are being badly affected, and entire communities could disappear after being forced to flee their traditional lands.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is urgently mobilizing food aid, and needs $20 million in additional funding, for tens of thousands of Congolese fleeing their homes in fear of fresh militia attacks in the Katanga region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Global economic growth is increasingly failing to translate into new and better jobs that lead to a reduction in poverty, according to a new report issued by the International Labour Organization (ILO) today.
With 60 per cent of nature’s gifts that support life on Earth, such as fresh water, clean air and relatively stable climate, being degraded or used unsustainably, the harm to human health, despite net gains, is already being felt and could worsen significantly over the next 50 years, according to a United Nations report released today.
With 2 billion tonnes of carbon entering the atmosphere each year due to forest loss, accounting for 25 per cent of all man-made emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2), the United Nations climate change conference in Montreal today heard urgent pleas for financial incentives and other strategies to curb deforestation.
With the situation along the Israel-Syria ceasefire line “generally quiet” but still lacking a political resolution, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today recommended that the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights be extended for another six months.