On a four-day visit to the fragile West African nation of Cote d’Ivoire, the top UN development official, Helen Clark met with President Alassane Ouattara, National Assembly President Guillaume Soro and other officials. ONUCI
On a visit to Haiti, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Šimonoviæ accompanied the UN peacekeeping mission on a night patrol of the Cite Soleil slum. MINUSTAH
The deputy UN envoy to Afghanistan, Michael Keating said he was "particularly concerned" about the protection of civilians there and called for stronger civilian policing "as the transition looms". UNTV
Important progress has been made to promote equality for Timorese women, the UN's Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General Finn Reske-Nielsen said today. UNMIT
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for "calm and reason" as anti-US protests spread to a number of countries today. The President of the General Assembly Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser said both the film and the attacks it appeared to have sparked underlined the need for a global "culture of peace", and also commented on Syria. UNTV
In Afghanistan, UNICEF works with governments and partners to protect vulnerable children and those facing juvenile justice. UNICEF
Efforts to control the spread of Hepatitis E in refugee camps in South Sudan are seriously underfunded, the UN Refugee Agency said today, and the illness is posing a major risk to health in the region. CH UNTV
UNICEF said today that it is vital to get children back to school at the approaching start of the school year in Syria to give them hope for the future. CH UNTV