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New York: A United Nations human rights expert has called for an independent probe into the authenticity of a video of alleged extrajudicial executions by Sri Lankan soldiers, stating that the investigations carried out so far have not been impartial.

“The private sector has a lot to lose from corruption, and has considerable leverage to stop it,” UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said at the launch of the first-ever report on top global companies' anti-corruption measures in Geneva.

New York:Refuting a recent media report, the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today reiterated that the body has no concrete proof that Iran has or has ever had a nuclear weapons programme.

New York: The head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has stressed that the tragic deaths of a 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride and her baby after three days in labour underscores the urgent need to better protect girls against early marriage.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Ministers from the six nations sharing the Mekong River have agreed to expedite the development of three priority economic corridors in the region: the East-West, North-South and Southern economic corridors.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), with a view to revitalize the ailing global economy and to ensure food security, has advocated involvement of transnational corporations (TNCs) in agriculture and food and beverage sectors both, particularly in developing countries, in the form of FDIs and non-equity participation.

Is India ready to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games? The event is scheduled to be held in the national Capital between October 3 and 14, 2010. Stakes are indeed high considering that India will be the third developing country to host the prestigious event after Jamaica in 1966 and Malaysia in 1988.

New York: Governments are falling well short of the financial commitments made to help developing countries climb out of poverty and meet other internationally agreed goals aimed at combating hunger and a host of other social and economic by 2015, according to a new United Nations report.

New York: A senior United Nations adviser has called on world governments to reduce population growth and work together to keep climate change from causing an immense human catastrophe, starkly warning: “We're on a trajectory that is absolutely unsustainable and profoundly dangerous.”

New York: Evidence indicates that the dumping of toxic wastes having caused over one dozen deaths and dozens of illnesses in Côte d'Ivoire in 2006, an independent United Nations human rights expert has said.