CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s coast guard intercepted over 400 Europe-bound migrants off the country´s Mediterranean coast and returned them to the capital of Tripoli over the past 24 hours, the UN migration agency said Sunday.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation in UN peacekeeping and political missions rose significantly in 2019, with allegations against civilian personnel nearly doubling, a UN report said Friday.
The United Nations Office in Geneva has allowed a Chinese government propaganda exhibit claiming ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang live in “religious harmony” under the Communist Party, a denial of overwhelming evidence China is undertaking a genocide campaign against the mostly Muslim minority.
Nearly 90 percent of the world’s population — of both genders — holds some form of prejudice against women, according to a U.N. study published Friday as a preview to International Women’s Day.
The Vatican’s delegate to the United Nations issued a strongly worded reproach to a U.N. report proposing that religious freedom must “surrender” to gender and reproductive rights.
Dirty cash may fuel the spread of the novel Chinese coronavirus, which is currently more than three times deadlier than the seasonal flu, the World Health Organization (WHO), a United Nations agency, warned this week.
A two-week United Nations meeting on gender equality, female empowerment and “women’s issues” was cut Monday due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The World Health Organization (WHO) appealed for calm Saturday as it issued its latest coronavirus warning, cautioning that criminals are using the global spread of COVID-19 to steal money or sensitive information from the unwary.
U.N. chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for the world to “urgently redistribute power” so as to end gender inequality which he said “should shame us all in the 21st century because it is not only unacceptable, it is stupid.”
A United Nations (U.N.) youth conference in Geneva, Switzerland, heard a string of demands Tuesday from young people for the globalist body to save the world by declaring an immediate “planetary emergency.” It was also told to subvert “the patriarchy” which is allegedly holding back “gender, race and social classes” from fully developing.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held up the “climate crisis” as the greatest threat to humanity in remarks to the U.N. Human Rights Council Monday, while appealing for legal abortion in “every country.”
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres underscored the rights of migrants and refugees in remarks to the U.N. Human Rights Council Monday, insisting that national sovereignty has its limits.
U.N. chief Antonio Guterres launched a “call to action” on Monday, lamenting rising attacks on human rights, the persecution of minorities, “alarming levels of femicide” and a lack of support for immediate climate action as evidence the world must look more closely to the globalist body for leadership and guidance.
Eastern Africa is facing a food crisis after a devastating plague of desert locusts, the worst seen in the region for several generations.
The United Nations (U.N.) launched a push Thursday to engage mobile video game players around the world and ask their input and advice to guide its ongoing “climate change” policies.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has labelled mass migration a threat to humanity during a counter-terrorism conference that took place in Vienna this week.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has introduced a series of sweeping foreign policy bills, including one that would let Congress limit the president’s power to place international sanctions and declare national emergencies.
The United Nations reported on Tuesday that a huge new wave of displaced civilians is pouring out of Syria’s Idlib province, driven out by intense Syrian and Russian military efforts to crush the last rebel forces and increasing tensions between Turkey and Syria. According to the U.N., the refugee situation in Idlib is the worst it has been since the beginning of the Syrian civil war.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas once again had the opportunity to show off his polished skills in the art of double-speak in his address to the United Nations Wednesday. It was, to wit, classic Abbas: brimming with non-sequiturs, misinformation and outright lies.
TEL AVIV – The United Nations on Wednesday published its long-anticipated blacklist of more than 100 Israeli businesses that operate in West Bank settlements.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Tuesday that the newly discovered coronavirus ravaging China, or any viral outbreak, can have “more powerful consequences than any terrorist action” and encouraged global governments to “do whatever it can to stop it.”
An alleged United Nations report unearthed by Reuters on Monday concluded that at no time in 2019 did the communist regime in North Korea stop its nuclear weapons program, raising questions as to why allies Russia and China insisted the U.S. support relieving Pyongyang of those sanctions as a reward for halting nuclear development.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responded when asked during Friday’s Democrat debate in New Hampshire if he would have also ordered an airstrike on Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Qasem Soleimani by saying that the United States should largely lean on the United Nations to “work out our differences.”
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has appealed for $675 million in special, one-off funding to deliver two months worth of direct aid to China and international agencies working to counter the coronavirus epidemic, as deaths from the outbreak neared 640 people.
Global conferences, meetings, parties, talk shops, summits, debates and fund raisers are planned for 2020 as the United Nations applauds its own 75th anniversary.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the special U.N. agency that deals specifically with so-called Palestinian “refugees,” appealed to the world Friday for a massive budget boost.
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo of Japan condemned the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday for excluding the nation of Taiwan from the response to China’s new coronavirus outbreak “for political reasons,” suggesting it makes the world less safe.
The official Twitter account for the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations airspace body, spent much of Monday and Tuesday blocking social media users who noted that its exclusion of Taiwan is particularly dangerous in the context of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in China.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gave an interview to Germany’s Der Spiegel on Saturday in which he said Iran would be willing to negotiate with the United States if the U.S. unconditionally drops its economic sanctions.
The United Nations has released $19 million in funding to East African nations to help step up the fight against the devastating desert locust outbreak across the region, the body’s humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock announced this weekend.
Police clashed with protesters in Baghdad on Monday after a few comparatively quiet days, resulting in 14 security troops suffering injuries from thrown rocks and complaints of excessive force leveled against police by the protesters.
Teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg gained fame lecturing adults about the threat climate change poses to her generation’s survival, and now her angry rants have been transformed into a choral arrangement by a British composer.
A study released this week from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics/Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Science Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, claimed the world’s oceans are warming at the same rate as if five atomic bombs were dropped into the sea every second.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said during Tuesday’s Democrat debate in Des Moines, Iowa, that the United States has a duty to “rebuild the United Nations.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden urged the U.S. government in 1998 to pursue a strategy to ‘dethrone’ Saddam Hussein over allegations the Iraqi strongman was hiding weapons of mass destruction.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft wrote a letter to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday stating the U.S. is “ready to engage without preconditions in serious negotiations with Iran, with the goal of preventing further endangerment of international peace and security or escalation by the Iranian regime.”
Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killing, said on Thursday night that the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian terrorist mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani was a violation of international law.
Greta Thunberg celebrated her 17th birthday on the steps of the Swedish parliament, carrying a sign to advance her “school strikes for climate” agenda.
A report from the Paris-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) on Sunday charged Iranian officials with killing one person who was detained during last month’s protests and torturing several others.
The BBC has confessed that it flew one of its reporters to Sweden to interview climate activist Greta Thunberg even though it was awkward.
