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Efforts to train 20,000 police officers for Afghanistan’s elections are gathering additional momentum this month with a series of expanded intensive courses in the north and the southeast, according to the United Nations mission in the country (UNAMA).

The United Nations-sponsored convention to protect the world’s migrant workers and their families will open its first committee meeting today in Geneva, beginning its work by electing members, setting up rules of procedure and developing an agenda for the years ahead.

Governments and civil society organizations need to cooperate better if the Asia-Pacific region is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a senior United Nations official has told a two-day workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Workers in Central and East Europe are more mobile than they used to be but unemployment is a growing problem in the region, the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) says in a new report.

Women hold the key to eradicating poverty worldwide, but must be supported in their efforts to lead families, societies and nations towards prosperity, senior United Nations officials told an intergovernmental meeting in New York today.

As talks to reunify Cyprus continue, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Kieran Prendergast heads to the Mediterranean island today at the request of Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has secured a $112 million loan to finish the renovation of its headquarters in Paris.

Against the backdrop of a 40-year conflict in Colombia, the country’s new anti-terrorism measures and the growing concentration of media ownership are hampering the work of journalists, a United Nations human rights expert said today.

From small measures such as cheaper fees for registering businesses to large steps such as liberalizing financial and capital markets, there are many potential ways to unlock the private sector in poorer countries, the authors of a landmark United Nations report said today.

While the United Nations advised its staff members in Haiti to stay at home for their safety given chaos in the capital, the world body is preparing to step up its relief efforts in the strife-torn country by finalizing an inter-agency humanitarian appeal, the spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.