Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 million people, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday ...

Ships in the port of Nice sounded their fog-horns on Friday, a brassy crescendo to a rare moment of global unity as the Third ...

Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor ...

How can we build a fairer, more peaceful world while safeguarding the planet? That’s the powerful question at the heart of ...

With one day remaining before the conclusion of the Third UN Ocean Conference, delegates in Nice are preparing for the ...

Secretary-General António Guterres condemned Israeli strikes in Iran late Thursday evening, urging ‘maximum restraint’ from ...

UN agencies on Friday continue to stress they must be allowed to deliver aid in the Gaza Strip as famine looms and a ...

As diplomatic efforts continue to end fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN development agency ...

The UN-backed atomic watchdog passed a resolution on Thursday declaring that Iran is not complying with its obligations ...

Behind closed doors, in a domed conference pavilion steps away from the historic port of Nice, more than 40 ministers ...

Meeting in emergency session on Thursday in New York, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding ...

Two counties in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan are sliding into famine, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ...