Officials from over 70 countries are meeting at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi to discuss the Montevideo Programme II -the second long-term UNEP plan

While the fare at the Rome Food Summit was aimed mainly to help tummy trimming of ambitious plans drawn up earlier, the general feeling of the observer bordered around caution

a new United Nations ( un ) agency, set up primarily to resolve conflicts of the sea, has taken shape. Inaugurated mid-October in Hamburg by the un secretary general, Boutros Boutros

Ageing population will

Plagued by a financial crisis and mounting criticism about waste and mismanagement from the US, UN officials have launched a counter-attack by detailing concrete results achieved by the UN secretary

Unlike the first United Nations conference on climate change, the recently concluded second meet was marked by a desire to give the planet a second chance

After days of haggling, more than 170 countries reached a new global accord on June 15, at the end of the UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II). Participating nations adopted the

Austerity measures to prop up the crumbling UN, hit by an acute financial crisis, has resulted in the unprecedented step of enrolling unpaid volunteers. This has become necessary, say UN