Victims of the Khmer Rouge are holding a conference discussing the role they are playing at a UN-backed tribunal taking place in Cambodia.

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An online platform developed by an Australian Googler in his "20 per cent time" has been adopted by the United Nations to show world leaders the extent of global support for climate change action at this month's summit in Copenhagen.

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A new mobile phone charger that will work with any handset has been approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations body.

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Murder and persecution of women and children accused of being witches is spreading around the world and destroying the lives of millions of people, experts said on Wednesday.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has passed the magic 50 per cent of votes needed to avoid a re-run in Afghanistan's presidential election, but his apparent victory is clouded in uncertainty.

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The United Nations says Australia is breaching its international human rights obligations by continuing the Northern Territory intervention.

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A group of Aboriginal people has asked the United Nations to register them as refugees, saying the Northern Territory intervention has made them outcasts in their own country

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Thousands of children in the Gaza Strip have succeeded in breaking the world record for the number of kites flown in one place and are now set to enter the Guinness Book of Records.

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The United Nations Secretary General has urged governments around the world to work towards eradicating polio.

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SIX-YEAR-OLD Marko Susnja has never seen his father, and probably never will. Marko is one of dozens of children born in East Timor to impoverished Timorese women who have been abandoned by their United Nations-employed fathers.

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Argentina has lodged a hostile claim at the United Nations for 660,000 square miles of the South Atlantic seabed immediately surrounding the Falkland Islands and other British overseas territories.

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US President Barack Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA agents who used torture tactics is a violation of international law, a UN expert says.

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Hamid Karzai has been accused of trying to win votes in Afghanistan's presidential election by backing a law the UN says legalises rape within marriage and bans wives from stepping outside their homes without their husbands' permission.

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New Zealand's former prime minister Helen Clark has been appointed to the third highest position at the United Nations.

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Australia will next week officially back the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, reversing the Howard Government's vote against it in 2007.

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The worst-case scenarios on climate change envisaged by the UN are already being realised, say scientists at an international meeting in Copenhagen.

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Six in ten people around the world now have a mobile phone subscription, signaling that portable phones are the communications technology of choice, particularly in poor countries, according to a UN report published Monday.

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On 23 and 24 March this year Australia will front the 95th session of the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) at New York.

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China will face unprecedented scrutiny of its human rights record Monday in a key test of Beijing's readiness to answer international criticism over its treatment of political opponents.

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has appealed for the UN to set-up an independent probe of alleged violations of the laws of war by both Israel and Hamas during their recent Gaza conflict.

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A full-size tapestry replica of Picasso's Guernica, a howl of rage at the bombing of a small Spanish town which has become one of the most famous anti-war images in the world, is coming on loan from the United Nations building in New York for the re-opening exhibition of the Whit …

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The UN's highest court has ruled that the United States breached its July order not to execute a Mexican man sentenced to death in Texas pending a review of his flawed trial.

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ISRAEL deliberately blocked the United Nations from building up vital food supplies in Gaza that feed a million people daily before the launch of its war against Hamas, according to a senior UN official in Jerusalem.

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As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organizations.

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Fresh questions over the legality of the Iraq war were raised today after the government admitted it could not substantiate its claim that Lord Goldsmith had changed his mind over the legal basis for the invasion before a highly controversial meeting with two of Tony Blair's clos …

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