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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it can continue to provide aid to thousands of Mozambican drought victims, thanks to the first shipment of 16,000 tons of maize from South Africa.

With 10 million children dying each year from largely preventable illnesses, two United Nations agencies today called on the international community to put child survival “back on the agenda” and regain lost momentum by dramatically scaling up nutritional and preventive measures.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ personal representative for Cuba has appealed to President Fidel Castro to pardon 50 Cubans sentenced to long prison terms recently on charges of treason.

During his first official visit to Thailand, the chief of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called on Asian countries to support efforts to tackle hunger and poverty in the region and around the world.

Expressing "grave concern" over the situation in Liberia, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ruud Lubbers, again today called for an immediate end to hostilities and for deployment of an international peacekeeping force to fill the current security vacuum in the war-ravaged nation.

Continuing his efforts to meet with and listen to the full range of Iraqi political, religious, intellectual and civil leaders, United Nations envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello is scheduled to go to the Islamic holy city of Najaf tomorrow to meet with Muslim Shi’ite religious leaders.

The extended presence of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) has assured a stable environment and enabled steady progress in national reconstruction efforts, but sustained peace in the country is "inconceivable" without peace in neighbouring States, Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns in a new report.

Experts convened by two United Nations agencies today announced agreement on recommendations regarding safe intake levels for a variety of different chemicals occurring in food, including the most toxic forms of mercury.

A senior United Nations envoy, Terje Roed-Larsen, arrived today in Beirut for the start of a regional tour that follows-up on Sunday's meeting of the diplomatic Quartet in Jordan, stressing again the importance of including Syria and Lebanon in the Middle East peace process.

Kicking off his visit to the United Nations complex in Geneva today, Secretary-General Kofi Annan held a series of meetings with various UN officials, advisers and personnel.