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As fighting in the western part of Côte d'Ivoire and recent ceasefire violations in the north persist, sending thousands of Ivorians fleeing to neighbouring countries, the United Nations humanitarian envoy for the crisis in the country today urged the government to provide relief to those in need wherever the may be.

Negotiations on the future status of Abkhazia, Georgia have made little progress in the last year, Secretary General Kofi Annan says in a new report, recommending the continued presence of the United Nations Observer Mission in that country (UNOMIG) for another six months.

Stressing the obligation of all States to work together urgently to prevent and suppress terrorist acts, the United Nations Security Council moved unanimously today to improve implementation of the sanctions regime imposed on Usama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, the Taliban and their associates.

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that its ongoing partnership with the international publishing community has provided 43 new countries low-cost online access to health journals.

Somali children sent abroad in the expectation of a better life instead end up facing serious psychological and identity problems, and in extreme cases, are even forced into prostitution as part of an exploitative child-smuggling business, according to a new report released today by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

A United Nations panel in Geneva today paid out more than $597 million for claims resulting from losses and damage suffered as a direct result of Iraq's 1990 invasion and subsequent occupation of Kuwait.

The United Nations humanitarian envoy for the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire arrived in Abidjan today with a mandate to focus international attention on the crisis unfolding in the country, and to ensure that all affected populations – including nearly 1 million internally displaced persons – receive the help they so desperately need.

The literacy, infant mortality and basic nutrition rates of most of the four to five million Roma in Europe are closer to levels in sub-Saharan Africa than those for other Europeans, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched today in Brussels.

With Venezuela handing over chairmanship of the Group of 77 developing countries today at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Secretary-General Kofi Annan took the occasion to meet with President Hugo Chávez to discuss several issues concerning the caucus and well as the situation in that country.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today encouraged the so-called "Group of 77" developing countries and China to pay greater attention to emerging issues that will profoundly affect efforts to meet the challenges of development and globalization, as the chairmanship of the 133-nation coalition was formally handed over from Venezuela to Morocco.