The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Once a champion of initiatives to protect nature, the EU is now giving in to pressure from farmers and the far right

Palestinians say a large-scale Israeli operation in northern Gaza has killed and wounded dozens of people and threatens to shut down three hospitals

Sister Rosita Milesi runs national network helping refugees across Brazil and has helped shape public policy.

The United States has sanctioned a senior leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for supplying weapons for the 17-month-long war, which has killed more than 20,000 people

Hezbollah fired projectiles into Israel on Wednesday and said it foiled ground incursions, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanon could face destruction like Gaza.

Activists hope a change in international law could help to address the intensifying erosion of women and girls’ rights in Afghanistan

What women face in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity, say activists pushing for recognition by UN

IEA says faster clean energy rollout led by solar power in China with country set to boast half of world’s renewables by 2030

Beyond the complex byways of international finance, a simple solution is gaining ground to protect populations caught in the path of destructive extreme weather: transfer a little money via their mobile phones before disaster strikes.

The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded Friday, a ray of light in a dark year for world peace, with the International Court of Justice, UNRWA and UN chief Antonio Guterres seen as favourites.

A surge of drugs is engulfing the paradisal South Pacific, as cartels and triads use far-flung island nations to channel narcotics across the globe, top police and UN officials have told AFP. Pacific islands such as Fiji and Tonga sit at the crossroads of largely unpatrolled ocean-trafficking routes used to…