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United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown today called on New York University (NYU) graduates to fully engage with the world as true “global citizens” and live up to the words of former United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt by casting aside isolationism.

To highlight – and help alleviate – the severe lack of donations to the United Nations-led relief effort in Sudan’s Darfur region, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to contribute to it the $500,000 he was awarded in February by the Zayed Prize for environmental leadership.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will begin more than two weeks of official visits on Wednesday, traveling first to Austria and then starting a tour of Asia that will take in the Republic of Korea, Japan, China, Viet Nam and finally Thailand, a UN spokesman announced today.

A nine-year-old local student has presented a money order for $128 to the United Nations relief effort in Darfur after touring the world Organization’s Headquarters in New York.

Highlighting Tanzania’s innovative use of football to inform people of ways to prevent malaria, the country’s biggest child killer, the United Nations Office of Sport for Development and Peace has organized a visit for journalists in cooperation with other UN units and the National Association of Black Journalists.

The United Nations envoy for the most vulnerable countries has called for a global campaign to bring safe drinking water to the millions of people living in the world's most impoverished States.

The United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) has strongly condemned an attack carried out against one of its buses and its civilian occupants in Yopougon, a suburb of Abidjan.

In an alarming indication of the worsening humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations aided 120,000 new internally displaced persons (IDPs) per month with its Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) in the first quarter of 2006, a monthly increase of 250 per cent over the 2005 average.

Following recent media reports of alleged sexual violence, including rape and child abuse, by African Union (AU) forces monitoring the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) will participate in the AU’s newly established Committee of Inquiry.

The United Nations refugee agency is appealing for just $69,000 by the end of the month – a mere $10 per person – to help 7,200 Colombians who have fled into Ecuador from violence in their homeland.