Responding to reports of abuses and instability in Darfur, Sudan, top-level United Nations officials today issued a strong call for those concerned to protect civilians in the area.
In a bid to speed up the war on disease, especially among the poor and marginalized populations of developing countries, the United Nations health agency today announced a new initiative to facilitate free Internet access to the latest data on clinical trials aimed at prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.
With hundreds of Colombians fleeing their country’s civil conflict, the United Nations refugee agency announced today that it would establish a permanent presence in neighbouring Panama to improve its assistance.
Hoping to stem the rising tide of HIV/AIDS infection, the growing number of people dying of starvation and an eroding socio-economic system, the United Nations today launched an urgent appeal for $95 million to support relief efforts in Zimbabwe through the end of the year.
The United Nations refugee agency’s family visits exchange programme in Western Sahara – which allows some refugees to see their relatives for the first time in almost three decades – enters its second phase next week when it begins transferring people to and from the city of Dakhla.
A senior United Nations official is touring Burundi to speak to government officials and examine the situation of the tens of thousands refugees returning home from Tanzania, the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today opened the spring session of the Chief Executives Board (CEB), the twice-yearly meeting that brings together the heads of United Nations agencies, funds and programmes.
A small fire broke out at the United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda early today, but there were no injuries and damage was minimal, a spokesperson for the UN said.
The United Nations' top envoy to Kosovo met today with the Prime Minister of Serbia and Montenegro, Vojislav Kostunica, in Belgrade to discuss last month's wave of deadly ethnic violence in the troubled province.