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With inadequate progress being made towards meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of slashing maternal and child deaths by 2015, a meeting of experts from around the world has called for a major cooperative effort that could save the lives of 7 million women, newborns and children each year.

Just days after warning that a drastic shortage of money will force it to cut rations to more than 1 million people hit by fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has added a further 200,000 refugees who fled to neighbouring Chad to the list

A joint weekend operation between the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti and the national police in a northern district of the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, resulted in the deaths of two long-sought gang leaders and five followers of one of them, the UN operation said in a statement released today.

Speaking on behalf of the world’s voiceless and uprooted communities, rights experts before the United Nations top human rights body have called for greater protection from the disparities that jeopardize the very survival of indigenous cultures, and the obstacles which disrupt the lives of internally displaced persons (IDPs).

A two-day donors’ conference to support the peace accord between the Government and rebels in southern Sudan has pledged $4.5 billion for 2005-2007, nearly $2 billion more than the amount United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan identified as needed to resurrect the ravaged region over the next two and a half years.

In an effort to solve the long-running dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the senior United Nations envoy for talks between the now independent country and its southern neighbour, Greece, today outlined an intensified programme of both bilateral and mediated talks.

Top international media executives participating in a meeting organized by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today were urged to explore fresh, innovative ways to harness their industry to advance the global fight against HIV/AIDS.

A veteran South African constitutional expert, who is a long-time legal adviser to former President Nelson Mandela and has been involved in the Burundi peace process, has been designated to lead the United Nations team helping Iraqis write their new constitution in anticipation that a request for such assistance will be forthcoming.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named the President of Latvia as the fifth member of his team of global political leaders helping to promote his comprehensive reform agenda in the period leading up to a General Assembly summit in September.

A day after arriving to take up his new post, the United Nations envoy for southern Lebanon called on all parties today to maintain "total calm" along the Blue Line separating Israel and Lebanon, citing a Hezbollah drone that breached Israeli airspace yesterday and the most recent Israeli overflights of Lebanese territory.