Paying tribute to a police officer slain in Kosovo, the senior United Nations envoy there today called on the province's people to choose peace over violence.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today recognized Brazilian documentary film maker Marcelo Canellas and Reuters correspondent David Brough for their respective roles in raising public awareness about global hunger.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureates have a role to play in the current debate about reform to the United Nations and the international system, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.
Senior officials of the United Nations system, preparing for World AIDS Day on Monday, today warned that the continuing spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its high cost in social and financial resources are threatening the viability of UN programmes to help poor countries.
The United Nations aviation agency has achieved a milestone in air navigation history by reducing the minimum vertical separation between aircraft from 2,000 to 1,000 feet, allowing for increased route capacity and greater operational flexibility on major air traffic routes between Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
The trial of four senior Rwandan officials has opened before the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), with the prosecution saying it will prove that they bear individual criminal responsibility for the 1994 genocide and defense lawyers saying their clients are innocent.
The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) said today it had received information that an unconfirmed potential threat was made against international establishments there.
For the first time in more than a decade central Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, has electricity and the airfield in Voinjama, a distant border town, is back in use, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today.
A veteran official of aid and development programmes has been named to help lead the United Nations effort to promote action towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, a set of targets agreed to by world leaders in 2000 aimed at halving global poverty, boosting children’s education and fighting diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, by 2015.
A new draft protocol designed to ensure that the unexploded weapons left behind at the end of an armed conflict are cleared away was adopted by 92 countries today at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, the spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said.