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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said that too many poor people face obstacles to trading their way out of poverty, while others pursue unsustainable levels of consumption.

Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces for change in the world, as travel for recreation has risen exponentially and is now one of the few ways in which the poorest countries have been able to take part in the global economy, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette told a meeting of the leading international organization for travel and tourism.

The United Nations General Assembly today resumed a long-running emergency session, requested mainly by Arab representatives in reaction to a veto by the United States last week in the Security Council, on the Middle East to consider the separation barrier being built by Israel between itself and Palestinian territories.

With Liberia currently in the process of selecting members of its transitional government and legislative assembly, the United Nations today underscored the need to choose honest and qualified professionals.

Troubled parts of northern Afghanistan are increasingly stable thanks in part to the deployment of a police unit there, a United Nations spokesman reported today.

With relative stability returning to Bolivia following a period of deadly violence, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged the country's people to work for a better future and pledged the UN's full support in this endeavour.

The former President of Liberia, Moses Blah, has turned over to United Nations troops a large quantity of arms, saying “we do not want to fight anymore,” according to a UN dispatch from the capital Monrovia.

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today welcomed a study published in the British medical journal Lancet indicating that active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) could drastically cut back deaths from HIV/AIDS, and said the system should be applied widely in poor countries.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for “bold reforms” from developing nations, and “bold action” from developed countries, to end world poverty.

Two United Nations experts today urged Malaysian authorities to review the case of a Malaysian human rights activist, who was convicted yesterday for publishing a memorandum alleging human rights abuses against migrant workers and sentenced to a year in prison.