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Amidst a visit to a Turkish refugee camp for people displaced by the ongoing violence in neighbouring Syria, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appealed once more to all sides in the conflict to stop the killing, according to his spokesperson.

Global wages remain far below pre-crisis levels, says a new United Nations report, which points to a continuing slowdown in developed countries alongside increases in emerging economies.

While the Mongolian economy has experienced continued growth, this has not benefited the country’s poor, a United Nations independent expert warned today, urging the Government to adopt poverty reduction strategies based on human rights approaches.

A United Nations senior official today reaffirmed the world body’s support for Indonesia’s anti-corruption efforts, particularly in the environmental sector.

Food insecurity in Africa’s volatile Sahel region is closely linked to peace and stability there, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today, adding that short-term humanitarian efforts in the Sahel needed to be replaced with longer-term development.

On a visit to Myanmar, the top United Nations relief official said today the UN’s humanitarian arm is seeking the Government’s permission to access people driven from their homes in parts of the country’s north, in addition to asking for international donor support for people displaced by ethnic inter-communal violence in the west.

The United Nations peacekeeping chief said today that the Security Council reacted with “considerable interest” to proposed responses to the recent violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – including one that would see a new peacekeeping force deployed there in addition to UN peacekeepers.

The United Nations refugee chief today saluted the “historic” entry into force of an Africa-wide treaty – the world’s first – that protects people displaced within their own countries by violence, natural disasters or large-scale development projects.

Traditional ceramics from Romania, Bedouin chanted poetry from Oman, and a Venezuelan ‘devil dance’ are some of the latest items added to a United Nations-endorsed list of the world’s tangible cultural heritage – part of the world body’s ongoing efforts to preserve endangered practices from fading into extinction.

A new United Nations report calls for greater investments in agriculture, stressing that it is one of the most effective ways to reduce hunger and poverty while safeguarding the environment, and for creating more favourable investment climates for farmers.