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Better infant feeding practices in the first two years of life, including exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months, could prevent almost one-fifth of all child deaths in the developing world, the United Nations’ Children’s Fund (UNICEF)said today at the start of World Breastfeeding Week.

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) head James Morris arrived in Myanmar today on a four-day trip to assess all WFP programmes across the Asian country, the UN spokesman said.

With more than 600 million people suffering from disabilities worldwide, a special United Nations committee today began a new two-week session in a bid to finalize the first-ever global convention enshrining equality and non-discrimination for affected persons.

As the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) moves quickly to expand its emergency response to the food shortage crisis in Niger, the French Government has donated to the agency some 1.7 tons of essential drugs and other life-saving supplies to help save tens of thousands of children and their families facing starvation.

The Indian Battalion of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) is planning to set up a medical camp in North Kivu as part of its "Operation Dove Flight" to improve the lot of victims of the conflict which resurged early last month.