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While the troubled Caribbean nation of Haiti is making tentative steps towards stability and development, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's latest report on the progress of the United Nations peacekeeping mission there warns that the rule of law remains weak and armed groups continue to undermine the country's institutions.

Dozens of international experts on forests have gathered at UN Headquarters in New York this week to discuss how best to manage the world's rapidly disappearing stock of forests so that their long-term health is protected.

The "brutal and senseless slaughter" of children in the terrorist attack on a school in southern Russia only serves to emphasize the need for the world community to come together in confronting terrorism, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.

Welcoming the release of a United Nations peacekeeper detained last week by one of the factions in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on all sides to bring the peace process in the area back on track.

With more than 1 billion people projected to be over 60 years old by 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a new set of principles aimed at providing better care for the elderly.

Haiti took a step closer on the road to democracy today as officials there began a three-day workshop on elections slated to be held next year in the troubled Caribbean nation.

Experts gathered today in Rome at the headquarters of the United Nations food agency to examine how communications at the local level can be used to foster development.

Liberia's immediate former President, Moses Z. Blah, who took over from exiled President Charles Taylor in August last year, today surrendered his weapons to United Nations peacekeepers in the capital, Monrovia.

A new rail cargo terminal of the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) was inaugurated today in what officials termed a sign of progress in the province.

The United Nations refugee agency has cleared three staff members in charge of its Nepal programme of allegations of gross negligence in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of young women and children in refugee camps in the Himalayan kingdom.