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Warning of a looming humanitarian crisis, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, today called on West African countries to keep their borders open to innocent civilians caught in intensified fighting in Côte d'Ivoire.

Marking the International Day of Disabled Persons, United Nations officials today highlighted efforts to find innovative approaches to help people with disabilities achieve full and equal participation in all aspects of economic, social, cultural and political life.

With help from the United Nations and other charitable organizations, a 700-year-old, sacred Jewish document has been unveiled in a public setting for the first time in Sarajevo.

The eight judges making up the United Nations-supported Special Court for Sierra Leone, which has jurisdiction to try individuals responsible for offences committed during the course of the country’s 10-year long civil war, have been sworn in at a ceremony in the capital, Freetown.

A United Nations-chaired panel convened to address the border controversy between Cameroon and Nigeria has decided to dispatch an assessment mission to the disputed Bakassi peninsula in a bid to grasp the issues related to the countries' disagreement.

The link between energy and climate change was the focus of a discussion today by noted experts at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the third in a series of talks hosted by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on issues outside the normal range of UN topics and on matters at the forefront of both the humanities and natural sciences.

Following its annual debate on the question of Palestine and the situation in the Middle East, the United Nations General Assembly today adopted by overwhelming majorities a series of resolutions focusing on the plight of the Palestinian people as well as the world body's work programme for the region.

United Nations experts visited one of Iraq's principal missile development sites as weapons inspections in the country continued today.

A $500,000 emergency fund to boost the global response to infectious disease outbreaks - whether naturally occurring or from the release of biological weapons - was set up jointly today by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).

A special court in Timor-Leste today sentenced a juvenile to one year in prison following his conviction last month for the manslaughter of three people during the violence that followed the 1999 popular consultation organized by the United Nations.