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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today it will have to cut back on its air service in Sudan due to lack of funds, curtailing the ability of 14,000 aid workers to travel to Darfur and other parts of the strife-torn nation.

An independent United Nations human rights expert has asked the United Kingdom to withdraw or postpone action on a bill that would lower key standards regarding detention in the context of fighting terrorism.

Major changes in Africa’s environmental landscape, from disappearing glaciers in Uganda to the loss of unique vegetation in South Africa, are shown today in a new atlas published by the United Nations which uses satellite images taken over the last 35 years.

The world has made “important achievements” in its quest to obtain universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010, demonstrating what can be done where there is sufficient political will, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly today.

The United Nations refugee agency is calling for a “full and speedy resolution” to investigations into allegations that Colombian refugees in Ecuador have endured forced disappearances, torture, attempted rape and death threats.

A major summit in support of Afghanistan to be held in Paris later this week should result in an enhanced partnership between the fledgling democracy and its international partners, the top United Nations envoy to the country said today.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the peace deal between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the opposition Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia, reached yesterday in neighbouring Djibouti following 10 days of United Nations-facilitated talks.

The international community urgently needs to take counter measures to head off “globalization without social justice,” according to the head of the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO).

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has received the report of the independent panel tasked with assessing the safety and security of United Nations staff worldwide and said it will be “studied in detail before considering appropriate follow-up action,” his spokesperson said today.

United Nations crisis officials are working with local authorities in Belize to coordinate relief efforts in the wake of flooding across the Central American country caused by the first storm of the annual Atlantic hurricane season.