The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most ...

UN Women and partners have published a study revealing that more than two-thirds of women journalists, rights defenders and ...

The UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi gavelled the resolution on artificial intelligence and environment, but removed ...

The UN's top humanitarian and emergency relief official has told NPR that the lack of attention from world leaders to the war ...

Controversial United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese has been reappointed to the position for another three-year term. Multiple countries and organizations have condemned ...

THE UNITED NATIONS headquarters towers majestically over Manhattan’s East River. Yet its escalators are often out of order, casualties of sweeping cost cuts by the secretary-general, António Guterres.

(Geneva, April 3, 2025) – The United Nations Human Rights Council on April 3, 2025, began an intergovernmental process to draft an international human rights treaty on older people, Human Rights Watch ...

• Scores of delegates walked out in protest before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech today at the UN General Assembly. The prime minister vowed to “finish the job” of eliminating ...

United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz on Thursday called mishaps during President Donald Trump’s U.N. speech "unacceptable" and vowed to withhold U.S. funding until sweeping reforms are made. Waltz ...

The United Nations has 193 members and an annual general budget of $3.72 billion. Its peacekeeping forces have 60,000 military personnel stationed around the globe. However, as it marks its 80th ...