U.N. officials are hoping to overhaul a "bizarre" rule that could see the global body credit hundreds of millions of dollars ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday elected Barham Salih, a former Iraqi president who fled persecution under ...

UN officials warned on Monday that the war in Sudan is reaching a deadlier phase as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) gain territories in the Kordofan region. During several briefings at the 10,077th ...

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.

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In a just-about hourlong address to the UN General Assembly, US President Donald ...

(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 ...

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 ...