One of the U.N.Millennium Development Goals is to reduce the under-five death rate by two-thirds by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Friday, the top U.N. human rights official called for an independent investigation into possible war crimes by both sides in the conflict.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

The Global Nomads Group,or G.N.G., was started in nineteen ninety-eight by four university students.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor says the investigation by the U.N.-appointed Goldstone Commission was one-sided and biased from the beginning.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

The U.N.Children's Fund reports nearly half of the estimated two million people displaced by conflict in Pakistan's Swat Valley are children.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

At the U.N.-sponsored forum in Japan in 1997 rich countries agreed to cut emissions by up to 15 percent by 2020.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Israel has dismissed the report and did not cooperate with the U.N.fact-finding mission, led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Canadian Grant Kippen is the chairman of the ECC, of which three of the five members are appointed by the U.N.Secretary General.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

On Friday,Mr.Ban's spokeswoman, Michele Montas, announced that the three-person panel would be led by Chile's U.N.Ambassador, Heraldo Munoz.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

But climate change skeptics say the credibility of the U.N.body has been damaged by the blunder, which media reports have termed "Climategate."

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

U.N.spokesman in Kabul Dan McNorton, speaking by phone to VOA, says it is early to make any conclusions based on the data.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

While in New York, Mr.Obama also addressed a high-level summit on climate change,called by U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

The watchdog group, partly appointed by the U.N., is overseeing the complaints of voter fraud and other irregularities reported since last week's balloting.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

The report commissioned by the U.N.Human Rights Council found that both sides committed serious human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04