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Less than three months after renouncing all programmes leading to the production of internationally proscribed weapons, Libya today signed an agreement granting the United Nations atomic watchdog agency enhanced access to verify that its nuclear activities are for peaceful purposes only.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today announced a multimillion dollar project to help Bosnia and Herzegovina - Europe's most heavily landmine-affected country - eliminate the deadly threat posed by those weapons.

A senior United Nations envoy is in Washington today for a meeting with United States National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on the situation in the Middle East, including issues related to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposals concerning a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, according to a UN spokesman in New York.

With United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan saying the international commitment to Haiti could be needed for "10 years or more," the first group from a UN multidisciplinary team went to the troubled Caribbean country today as humanitarian assessment missions resumed in its provinces.

The new courthouse building of the Special Court for Sierra Leone was officially opened today in the capital, Freetown, before an audience of national and international dignitaries.

The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has arrived in Zambia for the second leg of a three-nation tour of southern Africa that is focusing on the devastation wreaked by HIV/AIDS across the region.

Indigenous women, so often caught in the crossfire, must be integrated into their countries' decision-making so they can reclaim their right to make informed choices about their lives in times of peace or war, United Nations experts told a panel discussion in New York today.

With only 2 per cent of mental health studies in leading medical journals coming from the developing world, the United Nations health agency today announced a joint project with major journal editors to fill the shortfall through training and mentoring programmes for researchers from poorer nations.

A United Nations team has visited southern Iraq to assess conditions there, just the second time since most international staff were withdrawn from the country following the deadly bombing of UN offices last August, the UN refugee agency said today.

Actress Angelina Jolie, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has urged individuals and corporations around the world to donate money to help Sudanese refugees in Chad.