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Stepping up efforts to prevent nuclear materials from falling into terrorist hands and other diversions, the United Nations atomic watchdog has moved to plug a loophole in its safeguards system by strengthening reporting and inspection terms for States that have little or no nuclear material and no such material in facilities.

Despite insufficient guarantees for a fair trial and other defendant rights gaps in Kyrgyzstan, a top United Nations legal expert today welcomed the process of constitutional reform in the country and appealed to international donors to support it.

Eliminating child labour in Latin America within the next 20 years could generate an estimated $235 billion in net economic benefit as a result of children's improved access to universal education and better health care, according to a new study by the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO).

With the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone winding down, Secretary-General Kofi Annan hascommended the West African country's Government for its efforts towards consolidating peace, but said many root causes of the 14-year conflict, such as youth unemployment, have not been addressed.

In what they called "an unprecedented monitoring visit" in Viet Nam, United Nations refugee officials have accompanied a group of returning Montagnards from Cambodia to the homes which they fled over the past year, claiming religious persecution and land disputes.

A member of the steering committee of Rwanda’s Radio Télévision Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM), a privately-owned company nicknamed “Radio Machete” for its broadcasts inciting listeners to commit murder, was transferred today to the detention facility of the United Nations tribunal in Tanzania, facing charges of involvement in the 1994 genocide.

If the United Nations heeds the request from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to stop giving humanitarian aid by the end of this year and only provide development assistance, there will not be enough food for the country's 23.7 million people, the UN's head of relief operations said today.

Stressing that aid alone will not enable poor countries to achieve economic growth, senior officials from Member States addressing the United Nations General Assembly today called for increased access to global markets.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and he touched on many issues, including developments in Afghanistan, at their meeting in Washington today.

A leading Algerian journalist and a French academic will both be awarded the Sharjah prize for Arab culture this year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said today.