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The United Nations continues to be in touch with authorities in Afghanistan as it seeks to obtain the immediate and unconditional release of three foreign election workers abducted yesterday, a UN spokesman said Friday.

On the eve of his retirement after three years of serving as the deputy head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Charles Brayshaw says nascent democratic institutions in the province will need continued international support to flourish.

The United Nations cultural agency today signed its first agreement with a Member State to have a ready response team to handle emergencies that might result in damage to any of the world's heritage sites.

A United Nations human rights expert said today it was likely that numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed during the conflict that has engulfed western Sudan's Darfur region since early last year.

People-trafficking continues to be largely treated as a law-and-order problem even though it actually should be approached from a human rights and development perspective, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour says in a new report.

The United Nations today published its Gender Resource Package for Peacekeeping Operations - a comprehensive guide for those serving in the field and at Headquarters aimed at integrating concerns about equality and the particular needs of women into the workings of missions across the globe.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has called upon authorities in Thailand to comply with international law by thoroughly investigating the killing earlier this week of 87 demonstrators in the southern part of the country.

A United Nations human rights expert today called on the international community to persuade the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to reverse its policy of imposing restrictions on the movement of UN agencies involved in humanitarian programmes.

Reacting to an upsurge of violence and disturbances in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the local authorities to lend their support to United Nations efforts to restore calm.

Three international staff contracted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to work on Afghanistan's first-ever presidential elections earlier this month have been abducted by a group of armed men from a UN vehicle in the country's capital, a UN spokesman said today.