At 10:00 a.m., the 2025 ECOSOC Partnership Forum will be held in the Trusteeship Council Chamber at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. At noon, the Spokesperson for the Secretary ...

According to the UN charter, adopted in 1945 in the wake of the most destructive war in human history, the United States and a host of other nations agreed that “[a]ll Members shall refrain in ...

After World War II, nations pledged to create a more equal and law-abiding world. Now Russia, China and the U.S. are returning to an older model in which powerful countries impose their will.

A document called the Charter of the United Nations sets out the four main purposes of the UN: keeping worldwide peace and security bringing countries closer together helping them to solve ...

The letter from Panama cited articles of the U.N. charter that prohibit member states ... such actions inconsistent with the purpose of the United Nations, and suggesting that Mr. Trump’s ...

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations deplored the US president’s threat of using military force against the Islamic ...

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) serves as the secretariat for the Human Rights Council. 2) Security Council: The Security Council has the primary responsibility for ...

Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries condemned on Sunday remarks by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who appeared ...

They pointed out that the charter does not provide such assurances, according to a press release from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Information ...

With his announced ambition to take over Greenland (a Danish possession) and the Panama Canal, president-elect Donald Trump is throwing away a critical advantage the United States has held since ...