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NPR's Lynn Neary reports on the images of racial minorities that America displays overseas...through Hollywood films. See images and check out comprehensive NPR News coverage of the U.N. World Conference Against Racism.

The trial of Slobodan Milosevic entered its second week today. Milosevic finished his opening statement in front of the U.N. war crimes tribunal and prosecutors began calling their first witnesses. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from the Hague.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague, where Slobodan Milosevic continued making his opening statement in his own defense today. Milosevic is accused of war crimes, including genocide, in connection with the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

Robert Siegel talks with Ambassador James Dobbins, director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the Rand Corporation, about the challenges of rebuilding Iraq after Tuesday's bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.

The U.N. sanctions against the former Yugoslavia are officially over, but vestiges of those sanctions remain...as commentator Bob Garfield discovered when he visited Belgrade's sprawling, above-ground black market.

Gillian (JILL-ee-un) Sharpe reports from the Hague on the legal history that has been made by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal. It has produced the first international charges dealing exclusively with rape as a war crime.

who, up to now, has been a roving troubleshooter for the Clinton administration. He faces Senate confirmation hearings Wednesday to be the new U.N. ambassador.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports that France is investigating its responsibility for the fall of Srebrenica during the war in Bosnia. About eight thousand Muslim men and boys were killed. The Muslim enclave was under the protection of UN peacekeeping forces, which was then commanded by a French general.

Melissa Block talks with U.N. weapons inspection chief Hans Blix about the U.S. effort to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Blix says that the more time passes, the less likely that weapons will ever be found.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Bernard Kouchner, the founder of Doctors without Borders and a former U.N. administrator in Kosovo, about reconstruction efforts in Iraq.