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New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concerns about the lack of progress on political reconciliation, the treatment of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and the setting up of an accountability process in Sri Lanka since the United Nations signed a joint statement with the Government last year in the wake of the end of its civil war with separatist Tamil rebels.

New York: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced it is pushing back the start date of the trial of a former senior official of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who has been charged with war crimes.

New York: The countries of Asia and the Pacific have not duplicated their economic success in the realm of gender equality, according to a new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report, which found that discrimination and neglect are threatening the very survival of women in the region.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he hopes the upcoming meeting in the Russian capital of the diplomatic group supporting the Middle East peace process will lead to direct negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

New York: United Nations agencies are ramping up efforts to assist around 2 million Chadians who will require food aid this year because of poor rainfall and lean harvests, the world body has said.

New York: A huge shortfall in funding for life-saving emergency assistance to a drought-stricken region of Syria has forced the humanitarian arm of the United Nations to review its response plan for the population suffering under the three-year dry spell, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned.

New York: Users on so-called third-generation (3G) mobile telephones are set to receive a boost in worldwide compatibility, international roaming capability and greater access to high-speed data services from a new United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standard announced.

New York: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed an experienced Swedish police officer as the top United Nations police official, marking the first time in the world body's history that a woman has ever held the position.

New York: Failure to harness drugs could unleash a “health disaster” in the developing world, the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has warned, underscoring that poor nations lack the necessary treatment facilities and law enforcement capacities to rein in narcotics.

Macroeconomic stability has been maintained in past years, but the global crisis is having a delayed impact on Nepal's economy and exposing its structural weaknesses.