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The Director-General of the United Nations cultural agency (UNESCO), making an official three-day visit to Ghana, has launched this year’s worldwide observance of the struggle against slavery in a West African country that lost many people to the forced transatlantic migration of enslaved Africans.

Warning that many nations are not properly applying recommended steps against mad-cow disease, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called for strict enforcement of precautionary controls following the discovery of the first case in the United States.

Health Ministers from around the world are meeting today in Geneva to launch an initiative that would help prevent violence and reduce its adverse health and social consequences, the United Nations lead health agency said.

United Nations Volunteers are backing efforts by the World Food Programme (WFP) to provide nutritious food to people suffering from HIV/AIDS - the fourth biggest cause of death globally.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed Libya's decision to take action on international treaties banning nuclear testing and chemical weapons, saying the move would boost worldwide efforts to halt the proliferation of these arms.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged a meeting of Arab States to intensify efforts to ratify the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

More than half of all United Nations Member States have yet to submit reports to a key Security Council committee dealing with Al-Qaida and the Taliban, seriously hindering its ability to provide assessments on the effectiveness of the sanctions against the two groups, the panel Chairman said today.

Some 95,000 Sudanese refugees living in Chad should be moved further away from the insecure border while relief aid must be delivered to them more quickly, the United Nations envoy to Sudan has advised after visiting the affected area.

After dropping for two years, foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2003 remained flat at $653 billion, but should rebound in 2005, the United Nations' think tank on global financial flows and economic development said today.

A group of 225 Liberian refugees have arrived from Ghana and returned to their homes - some for the first time in 10 years - after United Nations peacekeepers rescued them from their distressed ship.