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.
New World Trade Organisation (WTO) chief Supachai Panitchpakdi of Thailand pledged on Monday to work to ensure that global trade underpinned development and brought benefits to the poor as well as the rich.
Switzerland has denied it leaked information to a French newspaper about the alleged involvement of Angola’s president in a -million embezzlement of his government’s loan repayment to Russia.
Developing countries on Monday rejected a US call at world trade talks to abolish tariffs on industrial and consumer goods by 2015, saying it would hurt poorer states.
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.