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More than 180 young people from 85 countries will meet in Germany next week in a United Nations-sponsored conference to discuss the ways in which technology can be used to promote environmental protection.

Hundreds of traditional leaders across Zimbabwe are being trained to help fight domestic abuse in their communities under a United Nations-backed initiative launched in cooperation with the Government and women lawyers in the Central African country.

The United Nations is seeking to ensure that emergency aid, including winterized tents and reconstruction materials, reaches victims of last month’s earthquake in Tajikistan before the cold season starts.

The top United Nations official in Liberia has briefed civil society leaders on the proposed phased drawdown of the UN peacekeepers who have overseen the West African country’s transition to democracy after 14 years of civil war, assuring them that it will be based on regular security assessments and measurable benchmarks.

United Nations officials yesterday called on top Chinese executives to utilize information technology to improve the plight of poor people in their home country and around the world.

Tackling climate change in the next quarter century will require major changes to patterns of investment and financial flows, according to a report by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) issued this week.

The Security Council today renewed the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) by another year and called on all parties in the region to play their part to turn last year’s cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hizbollah into a permanent ceasefire and a more durable solution.

Sierra Leone’s police force has taken possession of $1 million worth of new security equipment paid for by the United Nations to help local authorities in their efforts to reduce criminal behaviour and ensure public order in the impoverished West African nation.

The United Nations is bolstering its assistance – through the release of almost $10 million from an emergency fund and an appeal for nearly $40 million to be launched next week – to victims of the major earthquake which rocked Peru on 15 August, one of the world body’s top humanitarian officials announced today.

A top United Nations official in Sudan is taking part today in an African Union (AU) meeting being held to review the progress made so far towards implementing the comprehensive peace agreement that ended the long-running civil war between north and south.