At the request of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), a United Nations committee has proposed that the General Assembly discuss the question of malaria in Africa.
A downturn in the economies of developed countries, particularly the United States, has triggered a slowdown in the world economy, according to a new United Nations report released today.
Continuing his efforts to promote freedom of religion, a United Nations human rights expert will visit Argentina later this month at the invitation of the country's Government, the UN announced today.
The instruments available today for the protection of civilians in armed conflict are "in urgent need of updating," Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a just released report to the Security Council that recommends new strategies to deal with the changed nature of contemporary wars.
The United Nations refugee agency today voiced alarm at a spate of attacks in Croat-controlled parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina aimed at preventing Serbs from returning to areas they lived in before the war.
Baghdad's United Nations-administered oil exports surged to an average of 2.29 million barrels a day last week, up from 1.8 million the previous week, according to statistics released today by the UN office overseeing the effort.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a new $89.7 million emergency operation to feed 2.5 million small-scale farmers in Ethiopia.
The President of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia this morning urged the international security force in Kosovo (KFOR) and the United Nations mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) to exercise more control over the northern border area to prevent trespassing into his country's territory.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has moved more than 27,000 Sierra Leonean refugees in Guinea from high-risk border camps to safer sites further inland, a spokesman for the organization said today in Geneva.
A helicopter crash in Kosovo which took the lives of two British officers does not appear to have been caused by any deliberate aggression, a United Nations spokesman announced today.