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The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) today launched a compact disk tool kit to help countries and non-governmental organizations develop programmes to combat the problem of increasing numbers of people who are needlessly becoming blind.

The ranking United Nations human rights advocate today urged Arab leaders to pursue ratifications of UN human rights treaties, strengthen national rights protection systems and work toward ratification of an accord banning discrimination against women.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that work ahead in Iraq will not be easy and he called upon the United Nations Association of the United States to help with leadership and with communication of the UN story to the American people.

The head of the United Nations mission in Kosovo today urged representatives of the Pristina provisional institutions of self-government to attend planned talks with Belgrade officials next week in Vienna.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today condemned the bombing at a Baghdad police station and the murder of a Spanish diplomat in the Iraqi capital.

Leaders of two factions in northern Afghanistan today signed an agreement designed to reduce tensions in the area where tank-led battles caused high casualties Wednesday and Thursday, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported today.

Government policies to reduce poverty in Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in the world, are not in line with the country's obligations to improve human rights, a situation that calls for informed public debate, a senior United Nations official says in a report released today.

The United Nations panel appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to investigate security in Iraq in the aftermath of the terrorist bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad has left the Iraqi capital, a UN spokesperson said today.

Members of the United Nations Security Council today said that attempts by former President Charles Taylor to interfere with events in Liberia could threaten the peace agreements in that country.

The senior United Nations envoy for the Middle East, Terje Roed-Larsen, said today all parties to the Middle East conflict should allow the international community to work out a solution, instead of taking the kind of unilateral action that has brought a complete standstill to diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation.