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Several members of the United Nations Security Council today voiced support for Secretary-General Kofi Annan's decision to send a team to Iraq to examine the feasibility of elections before the 30 June transfer of sovereignty.

The United Nations is ready to intensify its work in Chechnya as refugees increasingly return to the war-ravaged Russian republic, the senior UN official coordinating humanitarian assistance said today during a tour of the region.

Ukrainian women face a society that disempowers them and strongly supports patriarchal values, while men have assumed heavy socioeconomic burdens that may shorten their life spans significantly, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says in a new report.

With the past decade providing “especially shameful” examples of genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the global community to take urgent preventive action, both political and, if necessary, military.

Two more human cases of avian influenza, or “bird flu,” have been confirmed in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam – the first to come from the country’s south, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has reported.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to decide early this week if he will send a United Nations team to Iraq to look into the feasibility of holding elections before the end of June as well as possible alternatives.

Legendary football star George Weah, a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), visited his home country of Liberia over the weekend, where he thanked the UN for coming to the aid of the West African nation and promised to help the country’s young people.

The United Nations must spearhead a worldwide mobilization of conscience against racial intolerance in a time of globalization when the Internet is being used for both conciliation and divisiveness, a senior United Nations human rights official said today.

Condemning the recent murders of women and children in clan-related conflicts in southern Somalia, a senior United Nations official today called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

The top United Nations human rights official today condemned the recent murder of a Cambodian trade union leader and appealed to the Cambodian authorities to do their utmost in order to bring the killers and their masters to justice.