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Responding to recent changes in Liberia, where a transitional government has been established, the United Nations Security Council today adjusted its embargoes against the West African country, especially its ban on timber and diamond exports and war materiel imports.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today hailed Libya's announcement that it will fulfill all obligations under regimes covering the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Declaring the alarming spread of polio in West Africa to be the biggest threat to its global eradication, the head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today called for the adoption of an emergency plan to stop transmission of the disease inside the region within a year.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) received contributions from a record 142 countries in 2003 – the largest number in its history, the agency said today.

With tuberculosis killing one person every 15 seconds, half a million of the world's poorest TB patients are set to benefit from free life-saving drugs under an agreement signed today by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and the pharmaceutical company, Novartis.

The United Nations refugee agency and other humanitarian organizations today began a three-day operation to move displaced Liberians to new camps from a stadium that once housed 47,000 people uprooted by fighting around Monrovia, the capital.

United Nations food and refugee agencies today urgently appealed for funds to help tens of thousands of Western Saharan refugees suffering from acute and chronic malnutrition.

With some of the hundreds of Afghans and Iraqis detained on the remote Pacific Island of Nauru staging a hunger strike, the United Nations refugee agency today appealed for a dignified response to "what is becoming a human tragedy."

Security in the Ethiopian refugee-hosting area of Gambella has improved since deadly ethnic violence there earlier in the week, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) reported today.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark has received the Ceres Medal from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for what it described as her "commitment to promoting food security and international partnership."