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New York: Top United Nations officials led a visit by 150 eminent personalities and representatives of 40 Governments today to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest and most notorious of all the Nazi death camps, to combat denial of the Holocaust of millions of Jews and others during the Second World War.

New York: The United Nations, its humanitarian partners and the Sri Lankan Government launched a joint programme today to help hundreds of thousands of people in the north of the Indian Ocean island recover and rebuild their lives after the end of the decades-long war with Tamil separatists.

Aggressive tax planning is a major risk to the revenue base of many countries. As shown by some recent cases and settlements, numbers are vast. Countries have developed a number of strategies to deal with aggressive tax planning. The underpinning of any such strategy is to ensure the availability of timely, targeted and comprehensive information, which traditional audits alone can no longer deliver.

New York: The United Nations health agency today called for further investigation into a possible link between GlaxoSmithKline’s Pandemrix H1N1 flu vaccine and narcolepsy, after a Finnish study suggested children who got the shot were nine times more likely to suffer from the rare sleeping disorder.

The Chair of the OECD's Working Group on Bribery has expressed concern that the entry into force of the new Bribery Act is to be delayed.

New York: The Government of Liberia, with support from United Nations agencies, will launch a week-long measles vaccination campaign on Wednesday targeting all children in Nimba County, which hosts over 30,000 refugees who fled the political turmoil in neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire.

New York: The United Nations launched the first World Interfaith Harmony Week today with a broad range of activities around the world, including interfaith breakfasts, film screenings and talks featuring the active participation of civil society, UN entities and other intergovernmental organizations.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Steven Barnett, visited Mongolia during January 20 – February 1, 2011, to hold discussions for the 2011 Article IV consultation and Post-Program Monitoring. The mission met with the Mongolian authorities, private sector, and academics to discuss macroeconomic developments and policies since Mongolia’s successful completion of the country’s Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) last year.

Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), visited Singapore on February 1 and met with Prime Minister Lee and Finance Minister Shanmugaratnam. The Managing Director commended Singapore for its impressive policy response during the recent global crisis, which has helped underpin a rapid recovery in Singapore.

New York: With the world’s population slated to top the milestone 7 billion mark by late 2011, the new head of the United Nations agency that helps countries use population data for policies to reduce poverty pledged today to focus on the largest global youth generation ever.