With more lands around the world facing increasing deterioration and degradation, the United Nations General Assembly declared the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against ...

World leaders from 193 countries will come together at the United Nations General Assembly and commit to 17 Global Goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years. If the goals are going ...

Assets jumped 51%, staff more than doubled, and the cost of running the $97 billion pension fund remained enviably low. At 37 ...

The World Day against Trafficking in Persons was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution ... globally fell by 11 per cent in 2020 from the previous year, driven ...

Algeria says it has shot down a military drone near the country’s border with Mali. It's the first incident of its kind ...

Delegates to a regional conference of Collegiate Councils for the United Nations participated in a mock United Nations General Assembly in Seven Sunday afternoon. Each delegate represented a ...

The United Nations 2023 General Assembly got under way yesterday without a number of key attendees, leading to questions over whether the intergovernmental organisation may be "losing credibility".

Human Rights Watch (HRW) submits the following regarding the United States' (US) implementation of recommendations from its 2020 Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

Formally known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR was established by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1950 in the aftermath of the Second World War to help the ...

Tokyo Shouldn’t Align with China and US in Attacking Global Rights System ...

The organisation currently has six principal organs: General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Secretariat, International Court of Justice, and the Trusteeship Council.