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African women's voices will now be heard online, thanks to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), which announced today the launch of a website with information on gender issues in the Horn of Africa.

The United Nations Security Council today unanimously agreed to extend the mandate for the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) until 30 June.

The United Nations Security Council today strongly urged Iraq to make further efforts regarding the whereabouts of Kuwaiti property after Baghdad acknowledged that it still held assets that were seized from its Arab neighbour during the 1990 invasion.

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison will deliver the inaugural lecture in Secretary-General Kofi Annan's new Lecture Series on Monday at United Nations Headquarters in New York, a UN spokesman announced today.

The top United Nations human rights official today called on European countries, meeting in Spain to discuss illegal immigration issues, to guarantee that asylum seekers and other migrants were portrayed fairly and without stereotypes.

One day after meeting with the Israeli Foreign Minister to express sympathy in the aftermath of "cruel and despicable" suicide bombings, the top United Nations envoy in the Middle East held talks today with Chairman Yasser Arafat, telling the Palestinian leader that there was an urgent need for action to stop such terrorism.

Delivering a commencement address at Northwestern University in Chicago, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged graduating students to take an active part in the efforts to tackle one of the major challenges facing humanity -- global poverty.

The United Nations today observed World Refugee Day, focusing attention on the contributions and needs of women, who make up the majority of those forced to flee, and urging States to protect them.

Delegates to an international conference on mountains organized with the support of the United Nations today called for more attention to the plight of millions of people living in high-altitude areas, who often are exposed to poverty, hunger, social and political marginalization and conflicts.

Briefing a private meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said the region continued to be “dangerously unstable” and warned that in the absence of a sustained political process, events would continue to be driven by those opposed to peace.