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The United Nations mission in Haiti is making slow headway on the many challenges it faces, but lacks specialized capabilities for the urban confrontations it experiences daily, the head of UN peacekeeping said today.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced today they are working with local authorities in southern Burundi to combat maternal and child mortality there.

The United Nations Compensation Commission paying damages to those who suffered during Iraq's 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait today announced the disbursement of nearly $200 million, bringing the total paid out to date to about $19.4 billion.

From countering the threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism to preventing nuclear weapons proliferation to slaking a growing thirst for energy, the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency today called for continued global cooperation as it seeks to rise to new challenges and profit from new opportunities.

The United Nations-sponsored Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission, established to settle border issues between the two West African neighbours, opened a two-day session today to consider reports on the progress of demarcation and the transfer of authority on the Bakassi Peninsula.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the authorities of Kyrgyzstan to facilitate the evacuation of Uzbek refugees and asylum-seekers, following reports that a number of them were being prevented from leaving a detention centre.

Based on their discussions at a recent United Nations-sponsored conference in Turkey, 35 Palestinian, Israeli and international women leaders and activists have established the first-ever global commission working to guarantee women’s full participation in formal and informal Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) said today.

Just months after publishing a report showing the Mediterranean as one of the regions where fish stocks are in greatest need of recovery, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called on countries in the region to continue working together to strengthen fisheries management so as to rebuild stocks.

The United Nations refugee agency today started airlifting 455 Uzbeks who fled unrest in their homeland in May to the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek pending a further transfer to other countries amid intensified pressure from Uzbekistan for the return of 12 among the group.

With the international humanitarian response to looming starvation in Niger gathering pace, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today a series of airlifts to deliver life-saving emergency rations to 80,000 victims of the impoverished West African country's intensifying emergency.