Full Coverage: United Nations

28.02.2006 The UN needs "strategic reserves" of troops because it is experiencing increasing difficulty in fulfilling peacekeeping demands around the world, says New York University's latest Annual Review of Global Peace Operations.

28.02.2006 An immediate end to the US occupation and the deployment of a UN-led peacekeeping force was demanded yesterday by an international women's human rights organisation.

24.02.2006 The President of the United Nations General Assembly yesterday unveiled a draft blueprint for a Human Rights Council with higher status and greater accountability than the much-criticised Human Rights Commission that meets yearly in Geneva.

23.02.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 (OneWorld) - The United States is using the issue of United Nations reform to consolidate domination of the world body by wealthy and powerful countries at the expense of the majority, say two-thirds of the UN's members.

23.02.2006 Firm commitments from rich countries to fund the response to the food crisis in East Africa are not being made quickly enough, a leading international aid agency said today.

22.02.2006 Refugees International is not mincing words. President Bush requested $514 million for peacekeeping and other programs in Sudan and they're calling on Congress to put up the bucks...but they need your help to close the deal.

22.02.2006 Public pressure for new action to stop the genocide in Darfur appears to be making inroads with the Bush administration, says Africa Action, but this momentum "has yet to make any difference on the ground."

20.02.2006 NEW YORK, Feb 20 (OneWorld) - Celebrations of Rene Preval's election as Haiti's new president could prove short-lived in the face of political restlessness and doubts about whether the international community will help heal poverty's open sores in the western hemisphere's poorest and most unequal society, analysts have warned.

20.02.2006 The UN has appointed Tom Koenigs, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, as the new head of the United Nations Mission Assistance in Afghanistan. One of his main roles would be to coordinate a multi-billion dollar development plan for the South Asian nation.

17.02.2006 Nepal’s violent armed conflict between Maoist rebels and the government has been placing the civilian population in grave danger, said a report released on Thursday by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHCR) in Nepal.

17.02.2006 Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced the creation of a high-level panel to explore how the United Nations can shape a smoother running machine to carry out its worldwide work in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and environment.

17.02.2006 Rene Preval won the election, but in a letter to the U.N. special envoy in Haiti, the Haiti Support Group asks about the charges of fraud and vote-rigging that have not yet been addressed. The group calls for a thorough and transparent investigation into the allegations before confidence in the electoral authorities can be resotred.

17.02.2006 Confirming what Amnesty International has repeatedly said, the U.N. issued a report concluding that the U.S. is in violation of the Convention against Torture and must bring detainees to trial or release them. Amnesty maintains that Guantánamo is "just the tip of the iceberg", and calls for other facilities to be opened to independent scrutiny.

16.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 16 (OneWorld) - Global warming watch out: Ice hockey fans are out to get you.

15.02.2006 A new fund at the United Nations is expected to enable rapid responses to sudden disasters as well as divert life-saving aid to lesser-known or forgotten crises.

15.02.2006 Ten years after the United Nations launched the "Decade for the Eradication of Poverty", more than one billion people still live without access to safe drinking water, health care, adequate housing and other essentials of daily life, development experts and independent observers here say.

15.02.2006 Rich and poor countries must make an enduring political effort to push through recent commitments to strengthen development agendas and improve governance in developing countries, despite "powerful vested interests," as well as conclude a counter-terrorism convention soon, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said.

14.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 14 (OneWorld) - They went to sleep as Syrians and woke up stripped of their citizenship and their rights to study, work, or marry as they wish.

14.02.2006 U.N. and European Commission officials launched a wide-ranging Action Plan to meet the immediate needs of the 30 million most vulnerable people in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). If successful, the plan will help usher in stability in a country that has suffered one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes since WWII.

14.02.2006 The official celebrations of World Environmental Day will be held this year in Algiers, the first time ever in North Africa, to highlight the theme of Deserts and Desertification, the United Nations Environmental Programme has announced.