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With 5,000 workers dying every day from work-related diseases and accidents for an annual total of two million, the United Nations labour agency dedicated this year’s World Day for Safety and Health today to a call for a strong safety and health culture in all enterprises.

The United Nations has given Timor-Leste’s midwives 80 motorcycles in a bid to extend their reach to remote rural areas and cut the highest level of maternal deaths in the Asia and the Pacific region.

A team of experts from the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded that the case burden of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Shanghai is not higher than officially reported, saying it found no evidence of systematic underreporting during a preliminary assessment.

United Nations relief agencies reported today that a fleet of food ships was converging on the Middle East in the race to ensure rations for Iraq's 27 million people next month while local health teams were fanning out inside the country to deliver essential medical supplies.

A former rebel commander during Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war has pleaded innocent to 17 counts of crimes against humanity - including four attacks against United Nations peacekeepers.

In their second such meeting in less than two weeks in the effort to salvage Iraq's looted antiquities, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and top international experts will gather in London tomorrow to consolidate their plans.

The President of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has asked that the expiring term of office of four permanent judges be extended to allow them to complete cases they are currently hearing.

A United Nations military observer was killed and another seriously injured this weekend when their vehicle drove over a landmine in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Registration by women voters for elections over the weekend in Yemen saw a 100 per cent increase from previous polls, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Warning against complacency with progress so far achieved by the treaty banning chemical weapons, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged that it be extended beyond its current 151 members to all nations in the world and that enough funds be provided to accelerate complete chemical disarmament.