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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Angola are calling for the release of 60 children abducted over the weekend in an attack by an armed group northeast of Luanda.

The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process today condemned recent violence in the area and stressed that an end to the crisis would require both political progress and efforts to improve conditions facing the Palestinians.

Reversing a trend, the Security Council committee monitoring the sanctions against Baghdad has released more humanitarian contracts under the oil-for-food programme than it has placed on hold, the office running the effort announced today.

Juan Antonio Samaranch, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), announced today at United Nations Headquarters that the IOC would donate $100,000 to the UN for the fight against HIV/AIDS.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that a humanitarian crisis is surfacing in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as desperate men, women and children begin arriving in towns in search of food after extended periods of isolation due to civil conflict.

The head of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme has highlighted the Organization's need to recruit qualified people with experience in government administration to serve as volunteers in towns and cities, particularly in peacekeeping operations.

A United States trading firm will co-sponsor "Basketball without Borders," an international effort to promote friendship and educate young people from the countries of the former Yugoslavia about the dangers of drug use, the United Nations announced today.

Netaid.org, a joint initiative by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Cisco Systems Inc., has announced the launch of a programme to help trace and reunify children separated from their families by armed conflict in Guinea, Republic of the Congo and East Timor.

Calm has been restored in Bosnia and Herzegovina following two recent incidents of mob violence by Bosnian Serbs during ceremonies intended to mark the imminent reconstruction of mosques in the country, the United Nations reported today.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan today reiterated his call for a "complete cessation of violence" in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and stressed the importance of continuing the dialogue among the country's political leaders aimed at "strengthening multi-ethnic relations and democratic norms and restoring stability."