The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

A journalist who covered the violent western Mexico state of Michoacan for a Facebook news page has been shot to death

While evacuating their homes in a refugee camp, at least 200 men were detained and forced by the Israeli military to strip to their underwear, including a father holding his 3-year-old daughter.

For more than a year, the Israeli state has been engaged in a massive incursion into Gaza following the October 2023 Hamas attack against Israel.

Taliban's extreme restrictions on Afghan women under sharia law raise concerns of gender persecution and potential crimes against humanity.

A top United Nations human rights official has called for a thorough investigation of all killings and other rights violations during the violent unrest leading up to and after the fall of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

U.N. Secretary-General calls for increased global efforts to protect biodiversity at COP16 summit in Colombia, highlighting urgent conservation needs and f...

U.N. officials say more than 1,740 people were killed or injured in Haiti from July to September, a nearly 30% increase over the previous trimester

The COP16 biodiversity conference opened on October 21, 2024. The UN conference is an opportunity to highlight that biodiversity is crucial for ensuring a sustainable food system. However, it is directly threatened by climate change and its side effects, such as the emergence of parasites. These disruptions, which reduce crop…

Efforts by the US and mediators to negotiate cease-fires in Lebanon and Gaza amidst challenges and proposals for temporary truces and hostage releases.