The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member ...

While the pathway amounts to progress since the Paris climate agreement, when temperatures were headed for 4 C of warming, it ...

World leaders, activists, experts and many more are in Brazil for this year's annual United Nations climate talks, known as ...

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday urged countries to show leadership to ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sought to convince world powers to mobilize enough funds to halt the ongoing ...

World leaders will come together, virtually, on Monday to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, as the deadly coronavirus pandemic challenges the effectiveness and solidarity of the ...

President Trump touted another peace agreement the U.S. helped sponsor between Cambodia and Thailand during a trip to ...

The world has reached a "major milestone" in the drive to combat modern slavery after Sudan became the fiftieth country to ...

TruMerit President and CEO Peter Preziosi has been elected President of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in ...

Since its inception, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has been a forum for lofty declarations, occasionally audacious rhetoric, and rigorous debate over the world’s most vexing issues—including poverty, ...

Cash-strapped African nations are looking at imposing sin taxes, restructuring debt and even trying to take a cut of diaspora ...