Mister Ban, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Haitian President Rene Preval led a conference of donors at the U.N.Wednesday.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

The U.N.Girls' Education Initiative organized the meeting of two hundred scholars, aid workers and government officials from twenty-two countries.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

May Rihani from the Global Advisory Committee of the U.N.girls' initiative gave an example from a "life skills" program in Mali.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

But U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the targets are too far in the future and that more needs to be done sooner.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

They include Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page from the band Led Zeppelin and Slash from the band Guns N' Roses.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

The U.N.report notes that the world's poorest countries are also the ones that use the most water for agriculture.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

In the Mexican state of Michoacn potters make white clay containers painted with line drawings of fish and other animals.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

A U.N. report, using numbers from the Palestinian Health Ministry, said almost 760 people have been killed in Gaza.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

The only evidence was cut into a tree and a fence: the letters C-R-O and the word Croatoan,C-R-O-A-T-O-A-N.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The U.N.report was based,in part, on one hundred ten national reports on action taken to reduce or stop the loss of biodiversity.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The U.N.World Food Program says more than a billion people one in six worldwide do not get enough food to be healthy.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

This week,U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent his top aide to press for an end to the Sri Lankan conflict.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Five days of talks recently took place in Rome at the headquarters of the U.N.Food and Agriculture Organization.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

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