The United Nations leadership has launched a major reform plan to make the cash-strapped world body more efficient and cost-effective. Unfortunately, it has offered little on how this will impact the UN’s already understaffed and underfunded human rights work.

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 Journalists and the Issue of Impunity addresses the ...

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 agencies, and international NGOs on a range of UN and ...

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 on the Jewish state at the world body. The General ...

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, development, peace, and security. As the main ...

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 other status. Discrimination may be an isolated event ...

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 the priorities for 2024 and beyond to the UN General ...

The U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, who recently returned from the Darfur region, said there's nowhere near enough aid being provided.

UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict (UN Action) is a network of 27 UN entities, united with the goal of ending sexual violence during and in the wake of armed conflict. Working as one UN, UN Action aims to: UN Action brings together the ...