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Women from Africa's Great Lakes region will spend a day trading ideas on peace and security in Kenya next week in preparation for a meeting of women's organizations in Rwanda later this year, the United Nations reported today.

The environmental performance of corporations and its link to their bottom line is the subject of new guidelines released today by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for all countries to put greater emphasis on developing their capacities in science and technology, saying that building a reservoir of knowledge in these areas could help the world tackle ills ranging from extreme poverty to illiteracy.

In the face of two major deadly car bomb explosions in Iraq in the last two days, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has again stressed the need for security to enable the United Nations to return to the country even as a UN team is on the ground there now assessing the feasibility of holding direct elections by 30 June.

With more than 2 billion people in developing nations depending on the rice-based system for their economic livelihood, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today opened a two-day international conference aimed at increasing production through greater efficiency and sustainability.

The head of the United Nations team in Iraq studying early elections continued his consultations today with a cross-section of Iraqi groups, including a meeting with a leading Shiite cleric.

The Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission, set up by the United Nations to peacefully resolve their border dispute, has decided to make extra field visits to the contested land boundary between the countries.

A United Nations military observer was killed today in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during the ambush of a UN convoy as it returned from investigating allegations of extortion by local militia members.

The head of the United Nations plan to refurbish its New York headquarters has been appointed the Deputy Executive Director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), effective from 1 March.

The United Nations envoy to Sudan has arrived in the capital Khartoum for talks following the pledge by the President to grant aid workers access for the first time to millions of suffering civilians in the country's strife-torn Darfur region.