The top United Nations envoy to Iraq today strongly condemned a string of deadly bombings in the country, calling them “reprehensible crimes that have indiscriminately targeted ordinary Iraqis.”
Tackling the challenges posed by illicit drugs and organized crime in south-east Europe is one of the major priorities of a new agreement boosting cooperation between the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC).
Deaths of children under five years of age have plummeted by almost one third since 1990, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today, while cautioning that greater action is necessary to achieve similar success in other areas, in particular maternal and newborn health.
Experts from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have completed field work on a study of the environmental impact of the recent heavy fighting on Gaza, the agency announced today.
The United Nations health agency says mass vaccination campaigns are reaching more children than ever in polio-prone states in northern Nigeria, one of four countries, along with Afghanistan, India and Pakistan, where the disease is still endemic.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today paid tribute to the late Alison des Forges, a human rights campaigner who worked unrelentlessly to document the horrors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and bring those behind the slaughter to justice.
The head of the United Nations agency charged with coordinating the fight against HIV/AIDS has called for a virtual elimination of mother-to-child AIDS transmission worldwide by 2015.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has strongly condemned the looting and destruction of relief supplies in the Somali town of Johar, warning that this will have an enormous impact on efforts to aid the country’s women and children.
Cultural diversity offers a wealth of opportunities for mutual exchanges and borrowings, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said today, calling for nations to boost efforts to foster dialogue among cultures.
The expert panel monitoring United Nations sanctions imposed on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has underscored the need for a vetting mechanism to screen the human rights records of officers in the national army, as part of overall efforts to reform the security sector.