New York, 11 July –According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is expected that the world’s population will peak in the mid-2080s, growing over the next ...

During his UN visit, President Trump encountered a malfunctioning escalator and a faulty teleprompter, prompting him to mock the organisation. He used these incidents to highlight his broader ...

The UN Security Council (UNSC), the organization’s principal crisis-management body, is empowered to impose binding obligations on all 193 UN member states to maintain international peace and security ...

NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly passed more resolutions critical of Israel than against all other nations combined in 2022, contributing to what observers call an ongoing lopsided focus ...

In 2015, the seventieth UN General Assembly adopted an ambitious set of development goals for improving economic, environmental, and social conditions worldwide by 2030. The seventeen Sustainable ...

Owen Greene has worked as a policy and programme advisor and consultant with the UN, UN agencies, European Union, the African Union, ECOWAS, Arab League, numerous governments and bilateral assistance ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres set out his priorities for 2024 to the General Assembly in February UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, outlined ...

Aiming to create a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers, thus strengthening peace, democracy and sustainable development worldwide, the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of ...

Discrimination is any unfair treatment or arbitrary distinction based on a person’s race, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, language, social origin or ...

Image — The United Nations headquarters in New York on 13 July 2023. Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images. Since May 2021, UN member states have been negotiating an international treaty on ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Jiwon Ma is a fact checker and research analyst with a ...

A Haitian woman was selling charcoal on the empty edges of her small town when a white, uniformed United Nations peacekeeper offered her a lift in his marked vehicle. He raped her shortly after she ...