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Patched-together dolls, drawings, poems and other personal effects give a glimpse of childhood turned unthinkable during the horrors of the Holocaust in an exhibition which opened today at the United Nations as part of a week of remembrance there.

Saying he was pleased that Cambodia’s Government has dropped all defamation charges against four human rights activists, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced hope for further progress in the impoverished Southeast Asian country.

The situation in Sudan’s western Darfur region has deteriorated severely over the past six months, the top United Nations refugee official told the UN Security Council today, warning of calamity there and in other parts of the country unless bold measures are taken soon.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), forced to suspend its operations in Côte d’Ivoire because of last week’s disturbances, said today that continued uncertainty about staff safety could have a “disastrous effect” on its efforts to aid some of the most vulnerable people, including refugees, in the West African country.

Responding to an emergency in Kenya’s capital that left at least 12 people dead, United Nations staff lined up today at Nairobi Hospital to donate blood to help those injured when a five-story building collapsed.

On his way the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland later this week, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today visited major athletic organizations to continue to promote sports for peace and development.

The world economy will grow by slightly more than 3 per cent this year but the spectre of oil price surges, an outbreak of avian flu or a crash in housing prices could threaten the smooth slowdown of economic growth that has evolved over the past year, the United Nations says in a new report released today.

Thousands of Congolese have fled fighting in the Kivu provinces in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to western Uganda, the United Nations reported today.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) military’s efforts to flush militias from the area south of Lake Albert in Ituri district has resulted in serious human rights violations, including the summary execution of six fishermen, rapes, imprisoning children and forcing villagers to transport stolen goods, the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MONUC) said today.

The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) through 15 December and pledged to keep its troop strength under review, stopping short of meeting Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s recommendation to significantly increase in the size of the force.