The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched the Africa Hunger Alert campaign aimed at drawing attention to the unprecedented hunger crisis on the continent.
The senior United Nations envoy in Afghanistan is travelling to Oslo for the start tomorrow of a pledging conference that aims to raise funds for ongoing humanitarian priorities as well as recovery and reconstruction efforts in the country.
With Angola now enjoying "real prospects for lasting peace" following nearly three decades of war, the Government and the international community must take steps to consolidate progress and foster reconstruction, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a new report to the Security Council.
Rebel and government forces in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Liberia and Somalia are among those named in a new report by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan that lists conflict areas where children are used as soldiers.
Government ministers from more than 40 countries in the Asia and Pacific region convened in Bangkok today at a United Nations-backed meeting aimed at hammering out recommendations for action on population issues and poverty eradication.
A Security Council delegation headed to Belgrade today after a weekend of meetings in Kosovo, with the head of the mission saying the group was impressed by the advances made in the province.
Judges serving on a "mixed court" set up to try war crimes in Sierra Leone have elected from among themselves two to preside over key chambers, the United Nations and the Freetown Government announced today.
In a bid to eradicate polio from Afghanistan, United Nations agencies today teamed up with the country's health officials to launch a new round of national immunization days.
Teams of experts in Iraq from the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission (UNMOVIC) today inspected two separate locations involved in missile activity.
Experts from the United Nations Monitoring, Inspection and Verification Mission (UNMOVIC) today completed an inspection of Iraq's Communicable Diseases Control Centre.