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

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

The U.N. human rights chief says his office is facing a $90 million funding shortfall this year, leading to a 15% staff reduction.

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 Biden-era kid gloves are off. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the United States is imposing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the controversial United Nations (UN) Special ...

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.

(New York, May 21, 2025) – Global momentum to prohibit and regulate “killer robots” seems to be building, as evidenced by numerous countries’ participation in the first United Nations General Assembly ...

It was perhaps an ominous sign when the first thing President Donald Trump said in his United Nations General Assembly speech Tuesday was that his teleprompter was broken. “I feel very happy to be up ...

• 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 ...

(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 ...