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The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Monday called Iran's plans to build an additional 10 uranium enrichment plants "unacceptable," warning they could bring increased international pressure on Tehran. Complete Story...
He infuriated Washington by challenging claims Saddam Hussein had a secret nuclear program, grappled with Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, and brought luster and unprecedented scrutiny to his organization by winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
The United Nations asked Monday for $7.1 billion to pay for its humanitarian work around the world next year, with Sudan and its troubled Darfur region most in need and Afghanistan rising to second.
The United Nations says at least four of its peacekeepers have been wounded in northern Congo after a U.N. helicopter was attacked by armed men.
The World Health Organization says isolated cases of drug-resistant swine flu in Britain and the United States have not changed the agency's assessment of the disease.
A United Nations human rights official says a three-member U.N. commission has arrived in this West African nation to investigate the September massacre in which troops fatally shot pro-democracy demonstrators and raped women in broad daylight.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a Network of Men Leaders on Tuesday to act as role models in the global campaign to end the "pandemic" of violence against women.
Development officials say almost half the world's population lacks modern fuels to cook or heat or any electricity, and insist negotiators must address that "energy poverty" as part of any global climate pact next month in Denmark.
The U.N. humanitarian chief says Sri Lanka's decision to release Tamil refugees confined to government camps is good news but the United Nations is concerned about how they are being returned home.
The remains of British hostage Alec Collett, who disappeared in 1985 during Lebanon's civil war while working for the United Nations, have been positively identified, the U.N. announced Monday.
Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.
The World Health Organization said Friday it is investigating samples of variant swine flu linked to two deaths and one severe case in Norway, but that so far the significance of the mutation is unclear.
A key U.N. committee approved a resolution Friday urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election and release those still detained.
A key U.N. committee expressed "very serious concern" Thursday at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea and strongly urged the government to put an end to the violations.
The U.N. climate chief has a message for naysayers about the Copenhagen climate conference next month: It will succeed.
Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery — essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a collision course with free speech laws in the West.
UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care — and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence — two decades after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights.
The United States is calling for intensified efforts to combat piracy and warning against paying ransom.
Iran's first lady made rare public appearance and even more rare, a speech, at a Rome forum on the eve of a U.N. summit to fight hunger beginning Monday.
Joram Abiero remembers it was not too long ago that his neighbors went to bed hungry.
The U.N. food chief said Saturday he was chilly but otherwise slept OK after his first night on a hunger strike to draw attention to the plight of the world's hungry before next week's U.N. food summit.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is planning to join a 24-hour fast to spotlight the plight of the more than one billion people around the world who go to bed hungry every night.
Organizers of big sporting and cultural events should take steps to prevent the spread of swine flu, especially if local health systems aren't prepared to handle mass gatherings, the World Health Organization said Friday.
The director of a U.N. food agency questioned Wednesday how world powers could commit so much money to fighting the financial crisis and not to feeding the 1 billion hungry.
Significant progress has been made in removing land mines around the world, but the hidden devices killed more than 1,260 people last year, the International Campaign to Ban Land mines said Thursday.
Document Reveals U.N.'s Goal of Becoming Rule-Maker in Global Environmental Talks—new environmental rules, regulations and standards, and the linking of existing environmental agreements, in a stronger global lattice-work of environmental law, with stronger authority to command national governments.
Mubarak's Virtual Enemies The fate of Arab bloggers and the fate of the Arab world are one and the same. Empower them and the region will prosper; suppress them and the region will continue to languish.
: Honduran Conservative is Favorite in Sunday's Presidential Election conservative candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo is the clear front-runner in Sunday's controversial presidential election.
Iran remains defiant on nukes after IAEA resolution: "Sanctions or threats cannot interrupt" programIran remained defiant, with its chief representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency declaring that his country would resist "pressure, resolutions, sanction(s) and threat of military attack." Delegate Ali Asghar Soltanieh of Iran shrugged off the vote. "Neither resol …
Philippines: Unicef Worker Shot Dead Near Massacre SiteAn unidentified gunman shot Unicef worker Nestor Bulahan at a bus terminal in Parang town, Maguindanao province, on Thursday morning. He died in hospital a short time later, a statement from the national police headquarters revealed.
DAWN.COM | Columnists | Smokers� Corner: Boxing the faithOnce upon a time, charity boxes of so-called Islamic welfare organisations were a ubiquitous sight at shops in our cities. These boxes were claimed to have been put there by the shopkeepers and Islamic welfare groups to raise money for the building of mosques and madressahs.
Tough U.N. Critic Tapped to Represent U.S. on Human Rights Council, which focused on Israel and ignored human rights abusersThe California scholar and Obama donor tapped to be the first U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
BBC News - Charity EveryChild issues warning on separated childrenThe number of children around the world living without any parents or separated from their families has increased to 24 million with a third of them placed in orphanages, a leading British charity dealing with children's rights has warned.
Blasphemy apparently is in the eye of the beholderA treaty banning blasphemous speech would infringe upon free speech. And, it's hypocritical given the Taliban's destruction of 2 huge statues of the Buddha.
UN marks 20 years of Convention on Rights of the Child Ceremonies are taking place around the world to mark the 20th anniversary of a landmark agreement protecting children. The UN says the Convention on the Rights of the Child has transformed the way children are treated.
BBC News - Newsnight - Defector tells of life in North Korean armyNewsnight has spoken to two North Korean defectors about life inside the secretive Stalinist state, one of whom says that he was an anti-tank battalion commander in North Korea's army before fleeing.
UN official decries lack of bailout for hungry - thestar.comROME–The director of a UN food agency questions how world powers could commit so much money to fighting the financial crisis and not to feeding the 1 billion hungry.
PM's Jewish pitch hits a new low, critics say - thestar.comOTTAWA–Angry Liberals Wednesday accused the Conservative government of reaching a new political low by circulating flyers characterizing the Liberals as anti-Semitic.
DAWN.COM | Business | Pakistan slips five places in global corruption listISLAMABAD: In its Corruption Perception Index for 2009, the Transparency International has placed Pakistan at the 42nd place, slipping five places from 2008 when it was at 47.
60 years ago: When the Arabs didn't want east JerusalemIn 1949, the UN was set to debate what was to happen with Jerusalem.
India scientists get cold blast - Washington TimesThe lead bureaucrat for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is calling scientists at the India Ministry of Environment and Forests "arrogant" for producing a 60-page study of Himalayan glaciers concluding there is insufficient evidence to say global warmi …
Sahara cocaine plane crash probedThe UN is investigating the crash in the Sahara desert of a cargo plane, which is thought to have been carrying cocaine from Venezuela.
Tim Berners-Lee launches "WWW Foundation" at IGF 2009Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web, showed up at the first day of the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum meeting in Egypt to announce the creation of the "World Wide Web Foundation."
Palestine wants UN Approval of IndependenceErekat did not say when Palestinians would go to the United Nations to make the request, only that they would go when they are fully prepared. He said they would consult the United States and other international powers before going to the U.N. Security Council.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Explosion at Nato base in KabulThe BBC's Martin Patience assess the damage caused by the blast A car bomber has struck outside a Nato base in the Afghan capital Kabul, injuring three foreign soldiers and three Afghan civilians, officials say.
François Houtart & Abdul Sattar Edhi share 2009 UNESCO Tolerance, Non-violence PrizeProfessor François Houtart (Belgium, President of the Brussells Tribunal on Iraq) and Abdul Sattar Edhi (Pakistan) are to share 2009 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence.
Big Profit From Nature ProtectionMoney invested in protecting nature can bring huge financial returns, according to a major investigation into the costs and benefits of the natural world. It says money ploughed into protecting wetlands, coral reefs and forests can bring a hundredfold return on capital.
Sharif: If Pak has evidence, must confront IndiaIslamabad: The Pakistan government should confront India with whatever evidence it has of New Delhi's alleged involvement in fomenting unrest in Balochistan, former Premier and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday.
Goldstone: Peres attack on me was 'specious,' ill-befitting his postSouth African jurist Richard Goldstone lambasted President Shimon Peres on Thursday for a personal attack on him, which the president launched in response to a damning report he compiled on Israel's winter offensive in Gaza.
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