Secretary-General Kofi Annan has deplored Saturday's bombing of an opposition political rally in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, which reportedly killed more than a dozen people.
The United Nations health agency is seeking further details from China about the first-ever reported natural infection of pigs with a highly infectious strain of bird flu, a development that could be of particular concern as it would increase opportunities for the emergence of a new human influenza virus with pandemic potential.
In an effort to enhance the establishment of human rights in United Nations-administered Kosovo, top UN and European officials today signed two agreements that seek to monitor compliance with important international principles and prevent torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment.
In a bid to enhance law enforcement in states bordering Afghanistan, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today announced a new technical assistance agreement to strengthen key agencies in Pakistan in the battle against drug trafficking and organized crime.
At least 10.3 million Afghans have enrolled to vote in their country's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections after the final registration sites closed last Friday, the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) has announced.
Timor-Leste has made significant progress towards self-sufficiency in terms of administration and security, and has advanced in border delimitation talks, but the world's newest country has not been able to bring several people accused of serious anti-independence crimes to justice, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a new report.
The top United Nations envoy for Iraq today met with the country's interim Prime Minister in Baghdad to discuss the battles still raging in the holy Shiite Muslim city of Najaf.
HIV/AIDS is threatening subsistence agriculture across southern and eastern Africa, impoverishing agricultural households and potentially cutting off the transfer of vital know-know about traditional crops from generation to generation, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today.
A United Nations Independent Expert on Afghanistan is denouncing abuses taking place at an illegal jail there, and seeking answers from the United States on getting the prisoners released.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the inauguration of the transitional federal parliament for Somalia – an event which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, where negotiators have been hammering out a peace deal for nearly two years.