2 November 2011 – Norway, Australia and the Netherlands lead this year's newly released Human Development Index (HDI) rankings, the annual United Nations measure of progress in human well-being, while the Democratic Republic…
2 November 2011 - Environmental deterioration threatens to reverse recent progress in human development for the world’s poorest, warns a United Nations report released today, calling for urgent action to slow climate change…
2 November 2011 - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today launched its Human Development Report 2011 entitled Sustainability and Equality: A Better Future for All. Click here to read more about the report. The…
KABUL - A long-serving member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) team in Afghanistan, Mr Abdul Wali Modadiq, has been appointed the Deputy Director-General of Afghanistan's National Environmental Protection…
At a press conference in Nairobi, Special Representative Augustine P. Mahiga briefed on the continuing progress of the implementation of the Roadmap, the Kenyan military operation in Somalia, the security situation in…
New York, 31 October 2011: The Security Council calls upon the Libyan authorities to take all necessary steps to prevent the proliferation of all arms and related materiel of all types to ensure their proper custody, as well…
KABUL - The United Nations projects that the world population will reach 7 billion today. This global milestone is both a great opportunity and a great challenge. The challenges confronting humanity as the world’s population…
GENEVA - At around 6am today, an organized attack in Kandahar involving suicide bombers and gunmen resulted in the deaths of three UNHCR employees at our compound and the wounding of two other staff members. UNHCR has been…
KABUL - The United Nations projects that the world population will reach 7 billion today. This global milestone is both a great opportunity and a great challenge. Dari - Pashto The challenges confronting humanity as the world…
27 October 2011 - Against the backdrop of West Africa as one of the major gateways for cocaine moving from South America into Europe, UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov today arrived in Guinea-Bissau, accompanied by the…
KABUL - H.E. the Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan, Zarar Ahmad Moqbel Osmani and the Country Office Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan, Mr. Jean-Luc Lemahieu, visited…