The Security Council today condemned the 8 January attack targeting the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which wounded two peacekeepers and damaged their vehicle.
Stressing that transparency is a precondition for accountability, the head of the United Nations internal oversight office today spotlighted the steps being taken to bolster the Organization’s capacity to investigate allegations of fraud and corruption.
This year, the United Nations will put itself on a new track to tackle the obstacles it faces – ranging from development to health to terrorism – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said.
Hailing the third anniversary of the peace accord that ended two decades of civil war in southern Sudan, the United Nations today called on all parties to resolve outstanding issues, including redeployment of forces and demarcation of the North-South boundary.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will expand its assistance in Myanmar in 2008 after helping 500,000 people in vulnerable communities last year to overcome chronic food shortages.
The Asia-Pacific region is likely to continue to see strong economic growth this year, despite uncertainties posed by a slowing United States economy, according to a new United Nations report.
A United Nations investigation team, including forensics and explosives experts, have inspected a site in northern Israel where two Katyusha rockets fired from southern Lebanon are reported to have landed and UN peacekeepers have combed locations for potential launching sites.
The international community is stepping up its efforts to rush winterized tents to Kyrgyzstan for nearly 5,500 people displaced in New Year’s Day earthquakes and now living in summer tents under temperatures ranging from -15 to -20 degrees Celsius, the United Nations reported today.
While security and political conditions in Côte d’Ivoire have improved in recent months, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has cautioned that these are fragile gains given the slow progress in achieving key benchmarks of last year’s peace agreement, including dismantling militias.
Some 151,000 Iraqis died from violence between March 2003 – start of the United States-led invasion – and June 2006, according to a large national household survey conducted by the Iraqi Government and the United Nations World health Organization (WHO).