The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched an online website today serving as a one-stop-shop for the latest information about the welfare of farm animals.
Growing reports of atrocities committed against civilians – by both Government troops and rebel groups – in the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continue to drive people from their homes, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) said today.
A reduction of export red tape by Governments in the Asia-Pacific region will lead to an increase in exports from areas hard hit by the global financial crisis, said participants at a United Nations-backed trade conference today.
A United Nations-backed initiative has been launched aimed at halting the destruction of the habitat of the East African mountain range gorilla threatening the extinction of humans’ close relative, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today.
Urging the international community to show their solidarity with the nearly 2 million people who have been driven from their homes by violence in Pakistan's north-west, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon emphasized the urgency of raising over $500 million to assist those affected by the clashes.
Calling for an end to “old enmities,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sri Lanka today, days after the Government declared that its military operation against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has ended.
The top United Nations envoy to Somalia today characterized the situation in the Horn of Africa nation as “very difficult ... but not hopeless,” as news media reported fresh outbreaks of deadly clashes in the capital, Mogadishu.
The deteriorating health situation in Gaza has been intensified by Israel’s blockade of crossings into the area, the United Nations agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees warned today.
The Security Council today expressed its concern over the political impact in Myanmar of the detention of opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
The President of the General Assembly announced today that the body will meet next week to consider postponing a high-level gathering which seeks to assess the economic crisis which has devastated the world economy and search for solutions taking all nations' interests into account.