Ukraine

Repeating his call for restraint, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged all parties in Ukraine to avoid worsening the tumult over the disputed presidential elections in that country.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his concern about developments in Ukraine, where a tense situation has emerged following the run-off Presidential election.

Ukraine is being threatened by an HIV/AIDS epidemic, fuelled more by injecting narcotics than by unsafe sex, while the increase in HIV prevalence has shot up by 1,300 per cent in five years across Eastern Europe, the chief of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today.

Poverty and insecurity are prevailing in Ukraine, where workers earn less than $100 per capita, and 40 per cent are owed a backlog of wages, according to a new study by the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO).

Ukrainian women face a society that disempowers them and strongly supports patriarchal values, while men have assumed heavy socioeconomic burdens that may shorten their life spans significantly, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says in a new report.

An exhibit on the 70th anniversary of the great famine in Ukraine, which took millions of lives due to the forced collectivization policies of Joseph Stalin, has opened at United Nations headquarters in New York with several speakers calling the tragedy a dark page in world history.

On his first-ever visit to Ukraine, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today met with President Leonid Kuchma to discuss the country’s role in the United Nations as well as trouble spots around the world.

The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, will pay his first-ever visit to Ukraine in early June, a UN spokesman announced today.

A decade after their country gained independence, tens of millions of Ukrainians continue to work without pay, lack access to adequate health coverage and avoid seeking help from government agencies when faced by economic or social crises, according to a pair of new surveys by the International Labour Organization (ILO).