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UNITED NATIONS, July 20, 2008 (AFP) - French film-maker Jean-Stephane Sauvaire brought the horror of Liberia's civil war to UN headquarters this week with the screening of "Johnny Mad Dog", his brutal portrayal of child soldiering.
Cambodia has sent a note to the U.N. Security Council alleging that Thai forces intruded into its territory near an ancient temple.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday called for a sharp hike in world farm output, warning that high food and fuel prices threatened much of the progress made in reaching global poverty-reduction targets.
Zimbabwe's current plight "shames most Africans", former UN chief Kofi Annan said in an interview published Friday, while voicing hope for a negotiated solution to the country's crisis.
Beirut - A team sent to Lebanon by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon began Saturday examining the country's border security, a UN source said. The Lebanese Independent Border Team (LIBAT) includes four experts with military, police and customs experie...
The United Nations chief told rights advocates Friday that his choice to be the next U.N. human rights commissioner is a South African judge who was the first black woman to serve on her country's High Court, the director of Human Rights Watch said.
Cambodia has asked the United Nations to intervene in its border dispute with Thailand, a Thai official said on Saturday, the fifth day of a tense stand-off between the neighbours.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, under pressure to expand his troubled mediation efforts, agreed Friday to work more closely with the African Union and UN to bring an end to the Zimbabwe crisis.
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syria faced the prospect of political and economic isolation Friday, a day after the release of a United Nations report implicating senior Syrian officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
South African judge Navanethem Pillay, who currently serves on the International Criminal Court (ICC), is to be named as the new high commissioner for human rights, succeeding Louise Arbour, diplomats and UN officials said Friday.
Ban Ki Moon, is planning to nominate a South African judge, Navanethem Pillay, to succeed Louise Arbour as high commissioner for human rights, according to a United Nations official briefed on the appointment.
The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki Moon, is considering appointing a South African lawyer, Navanethem Pillay, to succeed Louise Arbour as High Commissioner for Human Rights, according to a diplomat briefed on the appointment.
A South African judge who was the first black woman to serve on her country's highest court will be the next U.N. human rights commissioner, diplomatic and U.N. officials said Friday.
UNITED NATIONS (AFP)--U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called for a sharp increase in the world's farm output, warning that high prices for food and fuel threaten much of the progress made in reaching global poverty-reduction targets.
Attacks on aid workers in Somalia and disruptions to food shipments are threatening the lives of millions of starving Somalians, the United Nations' food agency warned Friday.
Zimbabwe's opposition was Saturday gearing up to ink an agreement that paves the way for fully-fledged talks on the country's crisis after the African Union and UN agreed to help bolster the mediation.
A United Nations food agency issued a forecast Friday of record levels of global cereal production this year but also said prices would remain high.
A United Nations decision to end aid flights to Myanmar next month could hurt relief efforts already struggling to reach millions of survivors with adequate food and water, humanitarian groups said Friday.
More than two billion people around the world still lack adequate sanitation, according to a UN report released here Thursday.
The U.N. Secretary-General says between $25 billion and $40 billion is needed each year to boost agricultural production and assist farmers worldwide, in order to curb the growing global food crisis. From United Nation's headquarters in New York, VOA's Margaret Besheer has more.
Humanitarian groups say the ending of United Nations aid flights in Myanmar next month could slow a relief effort that already has come under fire for leaving many of the 2.4 million survivors without adequate food and water.
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