The chief prosecutor for the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal has marked International Women's Day with a call to end impunity for wartime sexual violence. VOA's Peter Heinlein reports prosecutor Carla del Ponte's spoke during ceremonies at U.N. headquarters in New York.

Ethnic Albanian negotiators from Kosovo and Serbian leaders remain deeply divided after receiving the amended United Nations plan on the future of Serbia's breakaway province.

A former Russian diplomat at the United Nations has been found guilty of conspiring to launder more than $300,000 in bribes from UN contractors -- and taking a share of the money.

"Investigate Attacks on Anticorruption Campaigner"

Nigerian authorities should immediately investigate and prosecute those responsible for a violent assault and death threats against a leading anticorruption campaigner in the oil-rich Niger Delta, Human Rights Watch said today.

The National Redemption Front (NRF) strongly deplores fatalities on AU forces in Darfur. But regrets that the AU involvement in Darfur peace process has been a spectacular failure.

The United Nations' high commissioner for human rights has expressed concern about the jailing in Iran of more than 30 women activists.

Major powers on the United Nations Security Council have been holding talks on possible additional sanctions on Iran, but no agreement has been reported yet.

The United Nations' high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, has expressed concern over the detention in Iran of at least 31 women activists who had gathered peacefully in Tehran.

U.N. ambassadors from six major world powers are discussing new sanctions against Iran for defying a Security Council order to halt uranium enrichment. VOA's Peter Heinlein at the United Nations reports a new sanctions resolution will give Iran another 60 days to comply.

UN prosecutors have begun laying out war crimes charges against former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj at the opening of his trial in The Hague.

Major powers have failed to settle all their differences over a second UN sanctions resolution against Iran for its nuclear work.

French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy says all five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, have agreed on a framework for a new resolution toughening sanctions on Iran.