Insecurity in Afghanistan has impeded voter registration efforts, putting in jeopardy an election planned for June, a United Nations spokesman said today.
The United Nations today asked donors for $31.3 million to meet the three-month relief and rehabilitation needs of the tens of thousands of people in Bam, Iran, who were affected by the powerful earthquake which rocked the area last month.
A new report published today warning that 1 million species are threatened with extinction unless greenhouse gases are drastically reduced prompted the head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to reiterate the importance of bringing into force the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement meant to cut emissions.
The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations is visiting Pakistan and Bangladesh to thank both Governments for their support of UN missions and to seek further assistance.
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today dispatched a team of experts to Guangzhou, China, to investigate a case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
Preparing a new phase in the drive to help 90,000 people suffering from severe drought in northern Somalia, United Nations humanitarian agencies are appealing to rival local administrations to refrain from any violence that could disrupt the operation.
Voicing hope that the peace process in Côte d'Ivoire will gain new momentum, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the return of the opposition Forces Nouvelles to a meeting of the Government of National Reconciliation for the first time since it suspended its participation in September.
The top United Nations relief official arrived in Tehran today on his way to the earthquake-devastated Bam area of Iran, where he will join the country's authorities tomorrow in launching a Flash Appeal for humanitarian assistance.
The United Nations envoy to Sudan arrives today in N'Djamena, the capital of neighbouring Chad, to press for the resumption of peace talks on the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan.
The UN refugee agency has closed its three remaining field offices in Croatia, marking the end of an era in which it helped repatriate over 100,000 Croatian Serbs over 12 years and signalling what it called a 'sea change' in the region that gave birth to the term "ethnic cleansing."