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The United Nations Mission in Liberia today released a report documenting how hundreds of the country’s children – many with living parents and other relatives – are being kept in inhumane conditions in orphanages, some run for profit, and recommended measures to address these abuses.

Recognizing the vital role of the partnership between the United Nations and the African Union (AU) in the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts, the Security Council today stressed the importance of boosting the resources and capacity of the African body.

A critical shortage of funds will force the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to cut off vital food aid rations for 53,000 people in Djibouti beginning next month in a country where malnutrition rates among children under five are already well over the international emergency threshold, the agency warned today.

The United Nations refugee agency today expressed concern at the recent displacement of Afghans due to the ongoing conflict in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, where nearly 5,000 families have been driven from their homes.

Citing one of the worst cyclone seasons in recent memory in Madagascar as an example, the United Nations body that seeks to mitigate the impact of natural disasters called on the international community to invest more in programme to reduce the effects of extreme weather spawned by global warming.

Guinea worm, an ancient parasitic disease causing tennis-ball-size ulcers so painful that victims feel as if they are on fire, could in less than two years become the second illness after smallpox to be pushed into oblivion, thanks to water treatment and other preventive methods, the United Nations health agency reported today.

Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch are playing their part in bridging the ethnic and linguistic divide in Kosovo, teaching tolerance to children in the Albanian-majority Serb province in a United Nations-backed project that adapts the world famous Sesame Street programme to local needs.

Two weeks after a report showed that hundreds of millions of people have benefited from a United Nations-European Union (EU) partnership – in such areas as protecting refugees, helping children and promoting democracy – Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today welcomed the start of a workshop bringing the two organizations closer in the administrative realm.

Thirteen human rights organizations in southern Colombia have received death threats from an emergent illegal armed group, the New Generation, United Nations officials have reported in their latest update on the violence-wracked South American country.

Stepping up its response to the increasing waves of displacement in the Central African Republic (CAR), where rebel attacks, banditry and fighting have driven almost 300,000 people from their homes, the United Nations refugee agency has led a joint mission with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to the country’s remote northeast and opened a new field office in one of its neighbours.