Close to one billion people will never receive a formal education because governments around the world are not living up to pledges to provide free primary schooling for all by 2015, aid groups said on Wednesday.
A leftist farmers' group has asked the United Nations to send Hollywood star Angelina Jolie to visit the Philippines to check on the rising number of people displaced by army offensives in the countryside.
The United Nations' food aid agency has called on budding film-makers to help it raise awareness of hunger and bring the reality of abject poverty and suffering to the YouTube generation.
The head of the United Nations' intellectual property watchdog will step down next year, a year early, after documents bearing a false birth date brought pressure on him to resign, diplomats said on Thursday.
Microsoft Corp. and International Trade Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Connect Africa summit in Kigali, Rwanda on Tuesday, so as to be able to expand the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Wednesday unveiled a new strategy that will focus the poverty-fighting institution's efforts on ensuring the world's poor also benefit from increased globalization.
Nepal faces security problems and food shortages in the critical period before elections in November aimed at sealing peace after a decade-long Maoist rebellion, U.N. officials said on Thursday.
Zoellick will take over after a controversial two-year term by Paul Wolfowitz.
The South Korean UN Secretary-General nominee said on Monday he would work towards resolving the North Korea's nuclear bomb test crisis.
A top U.N. trade official said suspended World Trade Organization trade talks hurt the poor and that it was imperative that they resume in order to avert a resurgence in protectionism.
The United Nations announced on Wednesday it will expand the access of its agricultural information to reach 37 of the world's poorest countries. This marks the second phase of a joint United Nations-private sector initiative to fight poverty and under-development.
Japan's Ambassador has urged the United Nations to lead global efforts in ending world conflicts in order to establish peace and promote economic development.
The World Bank announced on Wednesday that it would give a $70 million grant for a trust fund for Lebanon to support the country's reconstructions efforts in the aftermath of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
The World Bank's private sector arm, criticised by civil society for investing largely in middle income countries, will ratchet up its projects in Africa and poor regions, the agency's head said on Wednesday.
Nairobi's Africities summit is the fourth for local governments in the continent. The first, in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivore in 1998, saw the emergence of the African municipal movement on the regional and international scene.
Finance ministers on Monday endorsed a controversial new World Bank strategy for tackling corruption in developing countries
Africa must develop its rural towns and give local authorities more power in order to ease a strain on cities which are creaking under heavy growth, officials and international planners said on Monday.
The World Bank's private sector arm said on Monday it hiked investments in the Middle East and Africa by 80 percent in the year that ended in June due to higher demand in those regions and it aims to do more in 2007. We are refocusing on these countries, International Finance
Finance ministers on Monday backed a controversial new World Bank strategy for tackling corruption in developing countries but insisted on overseeing how it is implemented
Finance ministers endorsed proposals Sunday intended to make it easier for international lending institutions to deal with soaring oil prices, trade gaps and other problems that threaten to derail growth.
