Bhutanese refugees who have been living in Nepal for some 16 years should have the freedom to make informed decisions about their future, a visiting United Nations official has said.
Sheryl Crow, a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter from the United States, is throwing her support behind the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) after watching its Ambassador, actress Drew Barrymore, discuss child hunger, the agency said today.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today urged Burundi’s development partners to sustain the positive momentum in country as its Government and people struggle to emerge from devastating civil turmoil.
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency today called for the development of a new global security system in which nuclear weapons are obsolete.
Following three definitive reports on climate change and a recent technical symposium, States and the private sector are showing more willingness to move ahead rapidly to stem greenhouse gas emissions, the lead official of United Nations-administered pacts on the issue said today.
The recent eruption of violence in the Gaza Strip and its extension into southern Israel illustrates the volatility of the Middle East conflict, and the longer it continues, the greater the long-term threat to prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace, the United Nations’ political affairs chief told the Security Council today.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank have agreed to a $5.3 million grant to increase the capacity of the police and improve the standard of prisons across southern Sudan, which is trying to rebuild after two decades of brutal civil war.
With many countries in Africa lagging in the achievement of development goals and assistance to them stagnating, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the launch of a new working group to reinvigorate the partnership between donors and sub-Saharan governments.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sent a report to the Security Council detailing the proposed hybrid African Union (AU)-United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force to stem the deadly violence wracking Sudan’s Darfur region, his spokesperson announced today.