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New York: Nepal has become the latest country to sign a United Nations convention designed to safeguard intangible cultural heritage, such as folklore, oral traditions, social rituals and the performing arts, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has reported.

New York: Agroecological farming, which improves food production and farmers' incomes while at the same time protecting the soil, water and climate, could feed an estimated world population of nine billion people by 2050 and go a long way to save the climate, if implemented now, experts at a United Nations seminar have concluded.

New York: Investments in agriculture in developing countries can be structured in a way that they become an alternative to large-scale land acquisitions to ensure that small-scale farmers do not lose their land rights, according to the findings of a new United Nations-backed study.

A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited Djibouti from June 2-9, 2010 to discuss progress under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), which replaced the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) approved in September 2008.

Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have noted that incipient recovery faces considerable downside risks given the uncertain global outlook, unsettled regional financial markets, and significant domestic economic vulnerabilities. Well-focused medium-term fiscal consolidation and ambitious structural reforms will be needed to increase competitiveness and attract investment to bring about stronger and more balanced growth.

New York: In an effort to strengthen maritime security in Central America, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Panama have launched a joint programme intended to prevent illicit and counterfeit goods from entering markets through sea ports.

New York: United Nations officials have stressed the need to ensure that the world body is equipped with the requisite human, material and financial resources, and the backing of Member States, to field successful peace operations, as they marked the 10th anniversary of a landmark report on the issue.

New York: The cultivation of the raw material for cocaine has declined significantly in Colombia, the world's leading producer of coca, but the situation in Peru remains worrying with the amount of the narcotic grown there consistently rising, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has reported.

New York: The United Nations-backed efforts to reunify the island of Cyprus and the ongoing dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have topped the agenda during talks between UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou.

On 11 June 2010 the first Review Conference (RevCon) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) concluded in Kampala, Uganda, to the satisfaction of the international community. Opened by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the presence of over two thousand diplomatic and civil society delegates, including several world leaders drawn from the Court's 112 States Parties, the much awaited RevCon did not disappoint those who have waited eight years in anticipation for this event.