The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions

Eight global millennium development goals were established in 2000 by member states of the United Nations (UN) and endorsed by other multilateral organisations. They ranged from eliminating hunger to empowering women, and from reducing child mortality to environmental sustainability.

The body of a 64-year-old woman attempting to evacuate has been pulled from under debris and fallen trees

Global climate talks are taking place in the Amazon - the "lungs of the world" - as political headwinds threaten to blow multinational collaboration off course.

A powerful tornado in Brazil's southern state of Parana has killed six people and injured hundreds of others

The U.S. representative for New York's 21st congressional district just announced her run for New York Governor.

Tens of thousands of Sudanese have fled to overcrowded camps to escape atrocities by a paramilitary force since it captured el-Fasher in the Western Darfur region

World leaders, activists, experts and many more are in or headed to Brazil for this year's annual United Nations climate talks

Diana Shams wrote a book because ‘no one explains how to carry your baby through fire, hunger and fear – and still sing to her at bedtime’

A former International Criminal Court chief prosecutor claimied on Thursday that the vessel strikes would qualify under international law as a crime against humanity

Shabana Mahmood’s proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs, while others want government to go further