Another 16 United Nations personnel have arrived in Baghdad in preparation for the resumption next week of weapons inspections in Iraq, a UN spokesman said today.
Nearly half a million fewer youngsters are suffering from general malnutrition as child hunger rates in the southern and central parts of Iraq have fallen to their lowest levels since peaking in 1996, according to a new survey released today by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
The disarmament exercise in northern Afghanistan is not going well, and the speed of the process and the amount of arms collected have not met expectations, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said today.
A panel set up to implement the remaining tasks of the Angolan peace process has recommended that the United Nations Security Council immediately lift the sanctions imposed by it on the former rebel group, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for a new vision of global security that would respect human rights, confront the threat of terrorism and draw upon the resources and legitimacy of multilateral cooperation.
Progress in the Bougainville peace process had seen some recent setbacks and Secretary-General Kofi Annan was intending to extend the mandate of the United Nations Political Office there by another year to allow it to complete its tasks, a senior UN official told the Security Council today.
A new report by the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) has cited Belarus, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Zimbabwe for "serious infringements of the principle of freedom of association and violations of trade union rights."
Television as the world's most important communications tool is central to the spread of an "information society," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today in a message marking World Television Day.
Officials from eight Asian countries are meeting in China, under a United Nations-backed treaty on hazardous wastes, to seek solutions to the growing deluge of electrical and electronic wastes, popularly refereed to as "e-wastes."
Although youngsters have an inherent right to play, this simple privilege is denied to millions of children whose lives are enmeshed in conflict, lost in exploitation, or stolen by preventable disease, the head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today.