UN chief Ban Ki-moon flew into Pakistan on Sunday to visit areas ravaged by floods and urged the world to speed up aid.
The United Nations on Wednesday warned of a second wave of deaths from floods in Pakistan unless help arrives soon.
Nearly 1,7-million Zimbabweans will require food assistance in the 2010/11 season, United Nations agencies said in a report on Tuesday.
Civilian casualties have risen by 31% in the first half of 2010, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said on Tuesday.
The UN rushed a top envoy to Pakistan on Thursday to address the urgent plight of 3,2-million people hit by the worst floods in generations.
Advocates claim that the United Nations "has failed women", and that a new women’s agency was already lacking transparency.
Climate-change campaigners on Wednesday welcomed plans to alter the way changes to the Kyoto protocol are made in an effort to salvage negotiations.
Invoking Nelson Mandela’s legacy, SA’s foreign minister made an appeal on Friday for her country’s bid to secure a non-permanent seat on the council.
The people of Somalia are facing an increasing lack of security and a humanitarian situation that is worsening daily, a UN official said on Friday.
Sri Lanka on Thursday ruled out giving visas to members of a United Nations panel looking into possible war crimes.
A recent measles outbreak in Eastern and Southern Africa has killed more than 700 people, the UN said on Friday.
Food prices are set to rise as much as 40% over the coming decade amid growing demand from emerging markets and for biofuel production.
The DRC is going through "one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world", the United Nations said on Friday.
Nearly 600 people died in rebel and tribal fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region in May, United Nations officials said on Monday.
Ban Ki-moon has urged all states to sign up to the International Criminal Court and rejected criticism the body was a court for only African crimes.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, the only sitting head of state wanted for war crimes, will be sworn in on Thursday.
More than a decade and billions of dollars after UN peacekeepers deployed to the DRC during a civil war, President Joseph Kabila wants them out.
Four South African peacekeepers who were kidnapped in Darfur over a week ago will be released after election results are out.
Pakistani authorities deliberately failed to properly investigate the 2007 murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, a UN-appointed independent panel said.
Four South African peacekeepers have been kidnapped in Sudan’s Darfur region, in the largest single abduction of foreigners in the war-torn region.
A withdrawal of the UN mission in the DRC in 2011, as sought by Kinshasa, would be "premature," France’s UN ambassador said on Tuesday.
More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday to mark World Water Day.
The UN has warned that failure to meet global poverty-reduction goals by a 2015 deadline will spawn increased instability and violence.
Hundreds of civilians are feared to have died in a surge of fighting between the Sudanese army and rebels in Darfur, a UN source said on Monday.
Burma’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest, keeping her in detention.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced out of Haiti, but the suffering wrought by last month’s earthquake has intensified calls for his return.
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/ 19 February 2010
Report estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment.
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/ 18 February 2010
Two top UN officials on Wednesday warned that withdrawing UN peacekeepers from Chad would hurt the area’s civilian population.
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/ 16 February 2010
Rwandan Hutu rebels murdered seven women in the east of the DRC, the head of the United Nations mission in the country, Alan Doss, said on Tuesday.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Tuesday that world powers would regret any moves to impose new sanctions on Iran.
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/ 9 February 2010
Iran began making higher-grade nuclear fuel on Tuesday, and the Pentagon said the US wanted a UN Security Council resolution on Iran "within weeks".
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/ 30 January 2010
Haiti’s desperate earthquake survivors faced a new deadly threat on Friday as the UN reported a rise in cases of diarrhea, measles and tetanus.