The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has expressed her deep concern about circumstances in which a Lebanese journalist was killed and another injured in southern Lebanon on Tuesday.
The United Nations mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) says it has taken note of the announcement of a new date for the holding of presidential elections in the country.
Some 4.5 million people have been affected by flooding in Pakistan, according to a rough estimate by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The Security Council on Thursday extended the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) for another year.
Well known fashion model Naomi Campbell on Thursday distanced herself from former Liberian President Charles Taylor who is standing trial at the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.
More than 1,600 people have died and more than 4 million people been affected in Pakistan’s worst monsoon floods for 80 years, according to Manuel Bessler, the head of OCHA, the UN agency coordinating humanitarian assistance in Pakistan. Speaking on the phone to journalists in Geneva, Mr Bessler said that people were getting angry and [...]
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On the first-ever visit by a United Nations Secretary-General to commemorate the Japanese nuclear bombing, Ban Ki-moon laid a wreath at the Hypocenter Monument in Nagasaki, Japan in honour of the victims of that 1945 United States bombing. Gerry Adams reports… SG: On this location 65 summers ago, a single plane dropped a single bomb. [...]
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The consumption of wood and paper products fell by over 11 per cent in 2009 in the United States, Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States, according to a new report issued on Thursday.
Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, Kiyo Akasaka, is in Japan attending events marking the devastation caused by atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a major airlift using helicopters to boost its ongoing relief operation and bring desperately needed food to people cut off by the devastating floods in northern Pakistan.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday laid a wreath in honour of the victims of the 1945 United States atomic bombing of Nagasaki in Japan.
Iraq needs to do more to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, known as the MDGs agreed by world leaders in 2000 to improve people's lives by 2015.
