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An Internet portal offering comprehensive information on the dangers and responsibilities facing women and girls during armed conflicts and women's roles in peace building was unveiled today by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

A United Nations-chaired panel set up to peacefully resolve the border dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria is holding its sixth meeting today and tomorrow.

With women making up only 4 per cent of civilian police in United Nations peacekeeping missions, a senior UN official appealed to Member States today to assign more women police and military personnel to international forces.

The United Nations released a survey today showing that opium production is on the rise this year in Afghanistan, by far the world's biggest producer of the drug.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today announced the publication of a report on child prostitution in the German-Czech border area detailing what it called a "harrowing" problem involving the exploitation of at least 500 boys and girls.

The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette today told a group of civil society leaders that the world must be able to deal with both so-called "hard threats" and softer threats if it wants peace and security.

The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reported that it had been stopped in its effort over the last few weeks to check on reports of Rwandan troops being stationed inside the Congo.

While negotiations for access to remote areas in Liberia are underway, United Nations humanitarian agencies continue to distribute aid where they can outside the capital Monrovia, a UN spokesperson said today.

The Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone will conduct its first hearings on Friday when defence counsel for a number of suspects, including former President Charles Taylor of Liberia, are expected to present arguments about immunity and other issues.

The global financial system must be reformed to give fair exits from sovereign debt crises, such as Argentina's emergency in 2001, and better tax coordination worldwide to reduce tax dodging and illicit cross-border financial flows, according to a report by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to a ministerial debate on financing for development which opened today in the General Assembly.