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While recommending a six-month extension of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the lack of progress in marking a permanent border between the two has led to a potentially dangerous political stalemate, his spokesman said today.

A United Nations multi-disciplinary team is scheduled to start arriving in Haiti tomorrow to assess what is needed for the stabilization force that the Security Council wants deployed within three months in the volatile Caribbean country, a UN spokesman said today.

As Afghanistan prepares to commemorate International Women's Day, the senior United Nations envoy to the country today deplored recent violence against girls' schools – institutions that were banned under the fallen Taliban regime.

Kosovo Police Service officers today discovered and helped to disable an improvised explosive device outside the headquarters compound of the UN mission in the province.

Seeking to build scientific capacity in poor countries and stem a brain drain to the developed world, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has entered into an agreement with the International Foundation for Science (IFS) to provide wide technical information in the fields of agriculture, forestry and fisheries.

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is working closely with the Indonesian authorities to fight an outbreak of dengue fever that has sent nearly 24,000 suspected cases to hospital in the past two months.

Women are entering the global labour force in record numbers but they still face higher unemployment rates and lower wages, and success in crashing through the “glass ceiling” to top managerial jobs remains "slow, uneven and sometimes discouraging," the United Nations labour agency reported today.

A public service announcement for television produced by the United Nations to mark the International Day of Peace last year has been nominated for a prestigious Emmy award in the United States.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today the end of its operation in Serbia and Montenegro, which at its height served 700,000 people, proclaiming the food emergency there over.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Envoy has concluded a visit this week to Myanmar, where he continued efforts to facilitate national reconciliation and democratization based on the participation of all parties concerned in the country’s process for a democratic transition.