The U.N.Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon is in Geneva for the opening of the World Telecom Conference.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

And in London, the U.N.Secretary General said world leaders are not likely to agree to a new climate change pact at the December summit in Copenhagen.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Iran's president also defended statements he made last Monday before a U.N.conference in which he called Israel the most cruel and racist regime in the world.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

The alarming prediction that the Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than those in any part of the world was made in a 2007 report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

The U.N.Fund for Population Activity and the World Health Organization are working with national ministries of health in a global campaign to end fistula that now covers more than 40 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia,and the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23