One week before the start of the XIX Olympic Winter Games, the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, and the President of the UN General Assembly today called for warring parties to put down their weapons on behalf of the athletes participating in the quadrennial competition.
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has teamed with many of the world's sports governing bodies to launch a campaign to free sports from all forms tobacco - from consumption and exposure to second-hand smoke to tobacco advertising, promotion and marketing.
Sports and healthy environmental practices will be the focus of a series of international conferences in Japan, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today.
