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A United Nations panel charged with disbursing compensation arising from Iraq's 1990 invasion and subsequent occupation of Kuwait today approved awards totalling over $365 million.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) announced today that Estonia had become the 100th member state to ratify the Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour - an international treaty banning the most abusive, exploitative forms of work for children.

As tens of thousands of Afghans mass along the borders of neighbouring countries, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the start of an emergency airlift to depots in Pakistan, Iran and Turkmenistan in preparation for the expected influx of refugees.

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today it was working to avert mass displacement across Afghanistan by shoring up the country's medical infrastructure in a bid to discourage people from leaving their homes.

The chief United Nations political envoy on Afghanistan today said the current international climate could augur a better future for the ravaged country if its people were engaged in the fight against terrorism.

American actress Angelina Jolie, who last month was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), today became the first individual to respond to the agency's emergency appeal for Afghanistan, donating $1 million.

The United Nations General Assembly's forthcoming debate on international terrorism will include the participation of over 100 countries, a UN spokesman announced today.

Attaining global goals for cutting poverty will require pro-active measures aimed at helping the poor and generating economic growth, according to a new report by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Fighting by various factions, including foreign troops, is escalating in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country.

The Prosecutor General of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today filed an indictment containing charges of crimes against humanity for acts committed by 11 people in 1999 in the Timorese enclave of Oecussi, in West Timor.