There have been many memorable moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations at its headquarters in New York and at ...

The following is the transcript of an interview with former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, Pfizer board member and ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The United Nations agreement is a significant step toward protecting biodiversity under growing threat from climate change, overfishing and seabed mining. Skip to content Skip to site index.

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

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 ...