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The United Nations human rights agency has offered to make its expertise available to Iraqi officials and representatives of civil society as they establish a legal framework to promote and protect human rights.

Afghans have almost completed construction of the 52,000 homes planned in a United Nations scheme to provide shelter for thousands of returning refugees, the UN’s refugee agency announced today.

The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned this week’s murder of Nelson Nadura, a Philippine radio journalist, noting he is the fifth journalist to have been killed in the Philippines this year.

The United Nations refugee agency has joined the UN inter-agency programme of disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration (DDRR) in war-torn Liberia, announcing it would offer assistance to 40,000 former combatants in the West African country and in its neighbours.

The United Nations Secretary-General's Humanitarian Envoy to Côte d'Ivoire, Carolyn McAskie, will visit the country's capital, Abidjan, next week on an evaluation mission, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today condemned this morning's explosion inside a commuter train in the Russian Federation, saying the attack appears to be "yet another act of terrorism."

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said today it would monitor the closure this year by the Russian Federation's Migration Service of a third camp in Ingushetia for Chechen refugees.

The United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal for Sierra Leone announced today that it has formally dropped indictments against two prominent former rebel leaders, Foday Sankoh and Sam Bockarie, saying it has no doubt that the two men have died.

A staff team left United Nations Headquarters in New York today for Cambodia to provide technical and practical help to local officials as they set up and operate a court to try the former leaders of the Khmer Rouge for war crimes.

Fighting in western Sudan has brought the humanitarian and security situations to an unprecedented low, risking the lives of thousands of civilians who cannot be reached with food aid, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland said today.