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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called on the international community to fully support its efforts to tackle hunger and poverty in West Africa, saying it has a “huge job to do in 2006” to assist the poorest region of the world.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said today that the newly created Human Rights Council should build on the achievements of its predecessor in addressing abuses wherever they occur.

Pledging to complete a full draft of a first-ever international treaty on the rights of persons with disabilities, the General Assembly committee charged with that task opened a marathon three-week meeting at United Nations headquarters today.

For the eighth time since Eritrea’s ban on United Nations helicopter overflights took effect last October, the country’s authorities have failed to respond to a request for the emergency medical evacuation of a UN peacekeeper serving in the region, officials with the world body said today.

Responding to the deteriorating security situation in Sri Lanka, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the country’s Government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to support the ceasefire and resume talks.

Demonstrators gathered outside the headquarters of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) today to protest a recommendation by a UN-mandated International Working Group monitoring the post-civil war transition that would effectively disband the parliament.

ormer United States President George Herbert Walker Bush, who is also Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Envoy for the South Asian Earthquake Disaster, arrived in Pakistan today to spotlight the plight of victims.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women today urged rights experts meeting in New York to encourage Sudan’s adherence to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has registered his opposition to a campaign of defamation against the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) as well as his senior envoy to the country.

Reacting with sorrow to the death of the Amir of Kuwait, UnitedNations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today paid tribute to the late leader for fostering unity, progress and stability during his rule, which coincided with some of the most tumultuous years in the country's history.