U.N. urges more help for Iraq refugees
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that countries involved in the Iraq war have a "moral obligation to do more" to accommodate the growing number of Iraqis fleeing their homeland.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- &quot;More needs to be done&quot; to end the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, Britain&#39;s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said after visiting a refugee camp Tuesday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Iraqâs interim prime minister appealed to world leaders at the UN General Assembly Friday to unite behind his countryâs effort to reign in spiraling violence and lighten the countryâs foreign debt and broaden support for coalition
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Iraq has appealed to the United Nations to play a more active role in the country, and for the international community to speed up the distribution of reconstruction aid.
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Almost a year after a devastating  earthquake in Pakistan, the United Nations called on Thursday  for more international financial help for the health sector in  the disaster zone.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan, responding to a call for assistance from Iraq&#039;s new premier, has agreed to help muster political and economic support for the country&#039;s new government, the U.N. spokesman said Friday.
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UN chief Kofi Annan urges Iraq's interim government to reach out to the Sunni Muslim minority ahead of elections.
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A U.N. envoy urged Iraq's government on Saturday to halt a slide into civil war and stop the "cancer" of sectarianism from destroying the country.
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Iraq must do more to heal its political wounds and revive its economy or elections could fail to achieve their goal of stability and legitimacy, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
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More peacekeepers are needed in Sudan's Darfur region to protect refugees, a top UN envoy says.
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The international community must focus more on the reconstruction of war-torn nations if it is to stem the tide of refugees heading to pastures new, according to the UN high commissioner for refugees.
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BAGHDAD, July 6 -- U.N. refugee officials on Friday accused donor countries of neglecting the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Iraq flooding into neighboring Syria and Jordan.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, says the Sudanese Government should grant more autonomy to Darfur to end continuing violence there.
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The global number of refugees rises for the first time in five years, mainly due to the Iraq war, the UN says.
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At least 1,000 Iraqis are fleeing their homes each day because of violence and insecurity Â a figure that could increase with threats of cross-border attacks into northern Iraq, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.
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ELECTION: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari complained that the United Nations has not done enough to help prepare the country&#39;s January elections, saying it has not sent enough election workers to help with the vital balloting.
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Sudan has asked the United Nations to  help verify reports that 190,000 refugees from the conflict-hit  western Darfur region have voluntarily returned to their homes,  the U.N. refugee agency chief said on Tuesday.