Following up on an agreement reached on the contentious topic of internet governance at the November World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to start creating a forum for a more inclusive dialogue on internet policy.
A staff member of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) was released today after being abducted by armed men in the Lower Juba region of southern Somalia on Wednesday.
With a peacekeeper dead of cardiac arrest after an unnecessarily long medical evacuation, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged the Eritrean authorities, in the strongest terms, to lift without delay their flight ban and other restrictions on the operations of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).
Backed by United Nations agencies, Viet Nam has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus as a public health problem in a victory over a scourge that used to kill some 20,000 Vietnamese babies annually before the age of one month.
Following the brutal murder of a Zimbabwean student by her boyfriend, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today called on the country's political and community leaders to campaign widely and forcefully to end the growing tide of violence against women and girls.
A $76-million European Union donation to the main United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees will allow it to continue working after the end of the month following warnings that a suspension of donor funding resulting from the militant Hamas victory in Palestinian elections could bring its work to a halt.
Contrary to suggestions that the Winter Olympics were held too far from the mountains, Torino may in fact have shown the way towards even ‘greener’ games, the head of the United Nations environmental agency said today.
Children living with HIV/AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa will have greater access to antiretrovirals and other treatments under an agreement signed this week between the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Baylor College of Medicine of Texas.
Aiming to prevent the proliferation of slums, the head of the United Nations Human Settlements agency has said that the urbanization crisis facing many countries, especially in Africa, can be effectively tackled if towns and cities stuck to detailed master plans.