International aid donors have agreed to provide the war-torn African state of Burundi with -million over the next three years for an economic recovery programme, UN officials said.
One person commits suicide roughly every 40 seconds, one person is murdered every 60 seconds and one person dies in armed conflict every 100 seconds, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.
People in developing countries are now at greater risk of contracting cardiovascular disease than people in wealthy nations, the UN’s World Health Organisation warned on Friday.
Use of the Internet is booming all around the world, bucking the global economic downturn and the crisis in the information technology industry, according to United Nations figures issued on Monday.
Outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson has revealed that developed countries, traditionally regarded as her allies, became her sharpest critics during her five years in office when she spoke out about freedoms on their shores.
MINISTERS and officials of the World Health Organisation began a week-long meeting in Geneva on Monday, set to include talks on bioterrorism and access to drugs for poor countries.
International aid groups warned on Tuesday that if rich powers succeeded in forcing open agricultural markets in developing countries it would destroy poor farmers and cause massive social disruption.
Zimbabwean authorities broke international law by failing to protect a magistrate who refused to detain opposition members and was later assaulted by supporters of President Robert Mugabe, a UN expert said this week.
The United Nations human rights chief on Thursday welcomed a decision by the international body to enforce a treaty on torture, despite opposition from the United States.
More than 28 million Africans are living with HIV and in some countries over 30% of the adult population is infected, according to a United Nations statement issued on Tuesday.
A group of scientists have begun a three-day meeting
to examine the implications of the discovery of high levels of a carcinogenic chemical, acrylamide, in some types of everyday cooked food.
Zambia, one of several southern African countries hit by a severe food shortage, on Tuesday confirmed it would not accept genetically-modified (GM) food aid, the World Food Programme (WFP) said here.
The World Health Organisation launched an urgent appeal on Friday for ,2-million to treat tens of thousands of people infected with a disfiguring disease in the Afghan capital Kabul.