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The senior United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process, Terje Roed-Larsen, strongly condemned today's suicide bombing attack in the Israeli town of Kfar Sava, which left one person dead another at least another 13 people wounded, several seriously.

The Security Council today extended for another three weeks the authority of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to run the United Nations programme that is the only source of food for 60 per cent of Iraq's population so that supplies already in the pipeline can be delivered.

United Nations relief agencies reported the return today of more international staff to Iraq after their withdrawal on the eve of hostilities, and forecast an increase in food convoys, but said the security situation remained critical in Baghdad.

As thousands of people around the world gear up to draw attention to workplace safety issues, the head of the United Nations labour agency today called for a new culture of safety to help save the millions of lives and trillions of dollars lost every year due to work-related accidents and illnesses.

The United Nations Security Council today called on all countries, organizations and individuals to help in resolving the fate of 605 Kuwaitis and other nationals missing since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

The central United Nations human rights forum today tackled a range of issues strongly endorsing the interdependent and mutually reinforcing nature of human rights, development and the rule of law, by adopting measures designed to protect the rights of individuals and promote civil and political freedoms.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has submitted to the Security Council 35 nominations for short-term judges to serve on the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

The United Nations has joined forces with a coalition of Southeast Asian nations to map out a comprehensive strategy to combat drugs and crime in the region.

The United Nations is helping the Government of Afghanistan to create employment opportunities, particularly in the rural areas, which could go a long way towards addressing current security problems in the country, a UN official said today in Kabul.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the top United Nations human rights body today that its mission was more important than ever in an era when “war, terror and the threat of political violence have become a much greater part of many peoples’ lives,” an era when “inaction is not an option.”