Shots were fired during the Israeli military’s hours-long detention of a convoy of United Nations vehicles in Gaza, the UN Secretary General’s spokesperson said Tuesday. The situation ...

HRW Oral Statement on Sri Lanka at the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Sri Lanka ...

“The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals are our shared vision of humanity and a social contract between the world's leaders and the people,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Develop and implement a coordinated communications strategy for the country/countries they serve, together with the United Nations Country Team and local United Nations partners, to publicise priority ...

Before their overwhelming vote Friday in favor of a humanitarian ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, the United Nations rejected an amendment to the resolution that would have condemned ...

The Department of Global Communications (DGC) of the United Nations has established a uniform brand standard for all United Nations websites. This standard is designed to ensure a visually ...

There are two UN Conventions on Statelessness. They seek to protect people who are currently stateless and prevent and end statelessness globally. Countries decide who their nationals are, setting ...

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 ...

A United Nations report has warned of a looming global water crisis and an "imminent risk" of shortages due to overconsumption and climate change. The world is "blindly travelling a dangerous path ...

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 27 (Reuters) - United Nations aid operations in the Gaza Strip continued on Tuesday, a day after a senior U.N. official said humanitarian efforts had ground to a halt because ...

As world leaders meeting in the United Nations this week discuss the future of efforts to rein in the gangs strangling Haiti, Haitians are expressing hopelessness that an international response ...

In late September, the United Nations will host the Summit of the Future, a four-day meeting in New York that will adopt updated commitments to meet existing goals, including addressing climate ...