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Afghan women related to ex-combatants will be trained as teachers under a new United Nations-supported initiative aimed at educating women while facilitating the reintegration of former fighters and their families in the war-ravaged country into civilian life.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan strongly condemned today's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv and called on the Palestinian Authority to “take a clear public stand against such unjustifiable acts of terrorism.”

Recent political agreements in Côte d’Ivoire and the engagement of the international community there have opened a window for progress toward elections and peace in the divided West African country – but only if all commitments are kept, a top United Nations envoy said today.

Members of the Security Council today voiced their backing for the work of the United Nations envoy seeking to resolve outstanding matters relating to Iraq's 1990 invasion and subsequent occupation of Kuwait, and hailed the Baghdad Government for its rolein the process.

With tensions escalating in the Middle East, Israeli and Palestinian diplomats both deplored the killing of innocents while trading accusations on the causes of the violence during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, which heard from over 30 participants but did not pronounce itself on the issue.

As violence intensified in Chad and its Government threatened to expel hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees who fled fighting in the troubled Darfur region of their country, a senior United Nations envoy today called on all parties to resolve their disputes at the negotiation table while protecting those in need of humanitarian assistance.

Following meetings in Tehran with senior officials, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has called on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment activities.

Joining a chorus of United Nations officials calling for action to stem violence in Nepal, the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today voiced concern about the increasing attacks against democracy and freedom of expression in the country.

The special needs of thousands of Iraqi children held in juvenile institutions and detention centres were the focus of a just-concluded, five-day workshop aimed at improving conditions for young people who have come in conflict with the law, officials with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) based in Baghdad and Amman have reported.

The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today appealed for international support to Iraqi academics and intellectuals and called for measures to protect them from a “heinous campaign of violence.”