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Improving the status and effectiveness of women, whose numbers have risen steadily in the past decade, in the police force of the Côte d’Ivoire is the subject of a new training course organized by the United Nations mission known as UNOCI in the West African country.

The President of the General Assembly today appealed to China to support United Nations initiatives to transform international financial, economic, monetary and trade policies in response to the current global economic and financial crises.

As he left for Spain today to continue consultations on Western Sahara, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Personal Envoy on the matter said that his talks with Algerian officials had been “intensive, frank and useful.”

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representative in Sudan has called on all parties to immediately cease the fighting which erupted today in the southern town of Malakal, stressing the need to ensure the safety and security of civilians in the area.

Gazans whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the Israeli offensive that ended last month have, to date, received more than $7 million in cash from United Nations agencies in a distribution that began last week.

The ongoing conflict in northern Sri Lanka between the Government and a rebel group is limiting access to health care, putting the lives of tens of thousands of people at risk, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) cautioned today.

Starting at a chicken coop and a pig farm outside the city of Bouaké, the top United Nations envoy to Côte d’Ivoire today started a five-city pilgrimage through the divided West African country to visit projects that aim to help ex-combatants and other at-risk youths re-enter civil society.

Despite strides made in dismantling organized criminal networks in Guatemala, substantial work is still necessary to consolidate the rule of law in the Central American nation, the head of a United Nations-backed commission investigating the presence and activities of these groups said today.

Six people drowned and another 11 are reported missing and presumed dead after smugglers forced passengers overboard in deep water off the Yemeni coast last week, the third such incident so far this year, the United Nations refugee agency said today.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today it continues to be extremely worried about rising violence against civilians in the eastern Congolese province of North Kivu, where attacks by Rwandan Hutu rebels have sparked new displacement.