The world’s nations are gathering in Spain for a high-level conference to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor ...

The United Nations, a collaborative global dream built into reality out of the ashes of World War II, marks its 80th ...

The U.N. warns that millions fleeing Sudan’s conflict risk facing worsening hunger. Nearly half of Sudan’s population suffers ...

A small country they keep on condemning again and again simply for fighting for its existence was able to achieve in three ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire ...

University of California, Santa Cruz and the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR) represented at recent inernational ...

In the lead-up to the United Nations' 80th anniversary, voices from the West declare the organisation obsolete, but this critique masks deeper anxieties about shifting global power dynamics, writes ...

Human Rights Watch leverages our research on countries and issues addressed at the United Nations to inform UN officials and member states of key findings, influence policy on a wide range of ...

Watching the brutal images of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has many people around the world asking, why isn’t the United Nations doing more to stop the war? Among them, Ukrainian President ...

But unless countries drastically ramp up action this decade, the United Nations report said, it will become “impossible” to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and extremely difficult ...

The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, said the move “would assist the General Assembly, the U.N. and member states to take the bolder and stronger climate action that our ...

The United States is an outlier for such excessive sentences. Of the 193 United Nations member states, 155 prohibit life-without-parole (LWOP) sentences.