Six months after being devastated by a massive earthquake, Haiti is on the road towards enhancing its food security, with assistance from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in building a strong nutritional foundation for all of the impoverished Caribbean nations people. In the hours immediately after the quake, WFP provided [Read More]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today at United Nations Headquarters in New York, where they discussed a number of issues including the Middle East peace process and the situation in Gaza. The UN chief has welcomed the additional measures announced this week by Israel in increasing the [Read More]
An international committee backed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is meeting in Paris to decide what steps to take to protect Haitis cultural heritage, much of which was seriously damaged by Januarys devastating earthquake. More than 200,000 people were killed in the magnitude-7.0 [Read More]
The targeting of civilians, sexual violence and the denial of humanitarian access remain widespread in armed conflict, senior United Nations officials told the Security Council today, urging greater efforts to end impunity for such acts. The conduct of parties to conflict is inevitably affected by their sense of susceptibility to [Read More]
In an effort to help prevent dangerous contamination of food with melamine, a toxic chemical, the United Nations food standards body today set new limits for the amount of the substance that can be present in baby formula, other foods and animal feed without causing health problems. The maximum melamine allowed in baby [Read More]
