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Social protection, investment in public goods and well-functioning markets are vital to make globalization socially sustainable, according to a co-publication by the International Labour Office and the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization launched on 20 September 2011.

New York: Almost three quarters of crops in Pakistan’s flood-devastated province of Sindh have been destroyed or damaged, and nearly 37 per cent of the livestock lost or sold to avoid loss, a joint assessment mission of the United Nations humanitarian office and Pakistani Government officials has reported.

New York: The number of international trademark and patent applications rebounded around the world last year after having fallen in 2009, according to intellectual property (IP) figures released by the United Nations today.

New Delhi: The Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has written a letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assuring him of India's 'full support' for his country's bid for membership of the United Nations.

New York: Delegates at a United Nations high-level conference on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) today considered strategies to combat the preventable, mostly lifestyle- and diet-related illnesses that have become major killers across the world.

New York: Thirteen countries today signed a key protocol to a United Nations treaty promoting a more equitable sharing of the planet’s genetic resources and their benefits as the annual UN event aimed at encouraging States to sign, ratify or accede to various global pacts and accords kicked off.

New York: Warning that a lack of access to affordable and clean energy is jeopardizing the achievement of the global targets to combat poverty and disease, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today launched a major new initiative to make sustainable energy universally available.

New York: Extraction of natural resources and other major development projects in or near the territories of indigenous peoples is one of the most significant sources of abuse of their human rights worldwide, an independent United Nations expert warned today.

New York: While lauding the progress made over the past year in the global effort to save women’s and children’s lives, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today noted that millions of them are still dying needless deaths and called for advancing the goal of saving 16 million lives by 2015.

New York: The human rights situation remains precarious in Sudan and newly independent South Sudan, a United Nations independent expert said today, calling for full fundamental freedoms in the former and concrete steps to protect civilians in violence-torn parts of the latter.