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The head of the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) has given his backing to a new campaign to raise the awareness of seafarers of their rights to fair treatment in the case of accidents at sea.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Gulf charity Dubai Cares have launched a new education initiative to help bolster access to education for children and promote gender equality in the small East African nation of Djibouti.

Predictable carbon pricing is needed to direct world investment flows toward an economy that could minimize climate change, close to 140 governments agreed today as they concluded a major meeting on the subject in Monaco, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) says.

Congratulating Demetris Christofias on his election as President of the Republic of Cyprus, the top United Nations official on the Mediterranean island today praised his stated plans to soon begin talks with the Turkish Cypriot leader.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today kicked off a multi-year global campaign bringing together the United Nations, governments and civil society to try to end violence against women, calling it an issue that “cannot wait.”

International efforts to help Kenya recover from the unrest that started after election results were challenged in December should thoroughly address the root causes of the violence, but must first help resolve the political crisis as a matter of urgency, the United Nations’ top humanitarian official said today.

The Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Myanmar wrapped up his visit to Singapore today, meeting with senior officials and expressing his appreciation for the country's continued support to the efforts of the United Nations to bring about democratic change in its troubled South-East Asian neighbour.

Tens of thousands of Darfurians living in the west of the war-wracked Sudanese region are without access to humanitarian aid because of the continuing ban on relief flights to the area, the United Nations reported today.

The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) reports that the regrouping of its peacekeepers and equipment in Asmara continued without restrictions today, as the world body still awaits Eritrea’s cooperation to move its personnel across the border to Ethiopia.

The Security Council today extended for one more year the mandate of the mission it sent to help stabilize the fledgling nation of Timor-Leste in the wake of violent clashes in 2006.