The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has received an unprecedented $317 million in pledges for 2003, nearly one-third of its projected needs for next year.
The Government of Swaziland’s recent rejection of judicial rulings violates international standards and could have widespread negative repercussions, a United Nations human rights expert said today.
After nearly 30 years of work to eliminate river blindness as a public health threat in West Africa, the region will officially be declared free of the debilitating disease on Friday, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced today.
In a bid to bolster the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Security Council today agreed to enlarge the United Nations mission in the country to 8,700 military personnel – up from the current 4,250 – and expand its presence eastward.
Nane Annan, the wife of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is embarking on a trip to the midwestern United States to raise awareness about the global HIV/AIDS crisis, a UN spokesman announced today in New York.
United Nations experts probing Iraq for weapons of mass destruction today visited Al-Mutanna, north of Baghdad, where Iraq once had a chemical weapons (CW) warfare programme.
The sexual exploitation of civilians, plundering of natural resources and terrorism are all emerging as challenges to the international community's efforts to protect non-combatants in times of war, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report to the Security Council released today.
The United Nations Security Council today voted unanimously to extend for another six months the global ban on the direct and indirect importation of all rough diamonds from Sierra Leone.
The United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA) has deplored the transfer of funds to the country's Presidential Guard, calling instead for that elite security service to be disbanded.
A rebel leader has pledged security for humanitarian workers in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations Organization Mission in the country, known as MONUC, reported today.