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Amid new signs of unrest in Myanmar, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today renewed his call for talks between the Government and the opposition, as his envoy prepared to head to the country's capital.

Calling it a blatant violation of Nepal's obligations under international law, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today expressed grave concern over the fate of 18 Tibetan asylum seekers deported to China despite urgent appeals from the agency and human rights groups not to expel them.

Faced with the conflicts and complex crises plaguing Africa, the United Nations Security Council today discussed ways to refine prevention and containment strategies by involving regional and global organizations and exploring the links between peace and security on the one hand and social and economic development on the other.

Commemorating the annual United Nations Staff Day, Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette paid tribute today to the courage and contributions of the many “unsung heroes” who lost their lives while working for the world body.

The United Nations World Health Organization’s (WHO) regional office for the Americas is set to launch the region’s first-ever Vaccination Week, with 19 countries mobilizing to immunize more than 15 million children under 5 and 2.7 million women of childbearing age.

The United Nations World Health Organization is set to remove Singapore from the list of areas with recent local transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), the agency said today.

The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today challenged the leaders of the world’s richest nations meeting at the G-8 summit next week to adopt a “tide-turning approach” to the global AIDS crisis or else face the opprobrium of allowing millions more people to needlessly suffer and die.

Expressing “extreme concern” over the fate of 18 Tibetans whose return is being demanded by China, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called on Nepal to release them instead into the agency’s care until their claims can be ascertained.

In order to further consider the best way forward on a new plan proposed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resolve the situation in Western Sahara, the Security Council today extended by two months the mandate of the United Nations mission responsible for organizing a referendum in the territory.

A former senior Yugoslav intelligence agent was transferred from Serbia to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague today to face charges of crimes against humanity for murder and ethnic cleansing of Croats and Muslims in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the court said.