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EDITOR'S NOTE — The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago Friday, yet hundreds of millions of children still suffer from violence, hunger and disease. Associated Press correspondents around the globe interviewed children who illustrate the remaining challenges, along with some victories. Complete Story...
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 families of three American hikers detained in Iran have filed a petition with the Iranian mission to the United Nations.
A United Nations court on Tuesday acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide after the judge said the prosecution had failed to prove its case.
United Nations officials forced free-speech advocates to take down a poster over its reference to China's Web restrictions at an Internet conference focused on freedom, saying Monday that it violated a ban on posters at events organized by the world body.
Israeli aircraft struck a weapons-manufacturing facility and two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, in response to recent rocket attacks on Israel, the military said.
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.
A fifth foreign mission to the United Nations has received an envelope with a suspicious white powder inside, police say.
Gunmen have killed a top Somali judge who had sentenced many pirates and human traffickers to long jail terms, the security minister for northern Somalia said Thursday.
A prosecutor at a U.N.-backed tribunal is accusing a Rwandan official of ordering the murder of children too weak to walk during the country's 1994 genocide.
At least 50 peacekeepers have received punishments ranging from reduction in military rank to eight months imprisonment for committing sexual abuses on United Nations missions since 2007, the U.N. said Thursday.
Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
A top human rights group is accusing the Congolese military of killing more than 500 civilians in eastern Congo and says the U.N. peacekeeping force in the area did nothing to stop the soldiers from decapitating men and raping young girls.
The embattled Afghan president pledged Sunday that there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration — a demand made by Washington and its international partners as they ponder sending more troops to confront the Taliban and shore up his government.
A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of police constables in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said.
To fight pneumonia, the world's top killer of children, United Nations officials say they need $39 billion (euro26.35 billion) over the next six years.
Authorities have arrested eight people, including one in Saudi Arabia, in connection with this week's deadly attack on a guest house used by United Nations employees, the Afghan intelligence chief said Saturday. He said those arrested claimed the assailants came from Pakistan's Swat Valley.
A United Nations security guard from Miami who died fighting Taliban attackers at a hotel in Afghanistan is being hailed as a hero by top U.N. staff for the lives he and another guard helped save.
The United Nations demanded to know Friday why it took an hour for Afghan police and NATO troops to respond to a Taliban attack on a guest house filled with U.N. staff in Kabul.
For two hours, a civilian contractor held off Taliban commandos with an AK-47, saving the lives of 24 people in a Kabul, Afghanistan, guest house. But while others are praising Chris Turner’s courage, the 62-year-old former hippie refuses to be called a hero.
The United Nations' torture investigator said Wednesday he was stopped by immigration authorities as he tried to enter Zimbabwe in defiance of officials who rescinded his invitation.
Just weeks before an international conference on climate change, the United Nations signaled it was scaling back expectations of reaching agreement on a new treaty to slow global warming.
The U.N. chief made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Monday as international pressure mounted for a quick resolution to the country's electoral turmoil following the withdrawal of President Hamid Karzai's only challenger.
Police say an explosion has occurred near the army's headquarters in Pakistan's Rawalpindi city.
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.
Global warming causes increase in AIDS says UN OfficialSuneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.
Muslim countries seek global blasphemy banIslamic nations are campaigning for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery - essentially a ban on blasphemy at odds with free speech laws in the West.
Syria suspected of concealing nuclear activity WASHINGTON - The International Atomic Energy Agency and Syria are walking a tightrope and appear to be headed toward a collision over two nuclear sites where undeclared uranium was recently found.
U.N.: More children in school and fewer dyingDespite the bright spots, the agency says 20 years after the adoption of a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, 1 billion children are still deprived of food, shelter or clean water.
Critics: U.N. food summit wasteful, ineffectiveZimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, blamed for plunging his people into starvation, uses his platform as the opening speaker at the U.N. anti-hunger summit to decry his foes.
Kenyans recruited to fight in SomaliaDADAAB, Kenya - The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole. Hundreds of boys and young Kenyan men were herded onto trucks, which were covered with heavy canvas, and driven through the night.
Phantom democracy in Afghanistan needs more victimsThe international coalition forces suffered new losses in Afghanistan. This time, the losses were caused by a NATO airstrike, not the Taliban.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN presses Iran on nuclear siteAnd the beat goes on ... Appeasement, appeasement
BBC NEWS | Europe | Gaddafi preaches to Rome beautiesJust imagine your daughter bringing THIS guy home for dinner ...
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.
Please Send More Than TroopsThe end of Afghanistan's election last week leaves the Barack Obama administration with a narrow window of opportunity to implement a new strategy.
US Urges North Korea Not to Escalate Tensions in Yellow SeaWashington has urged North Korea not to escalate tensions in the Yellow Sea following a naval skirmish between the North and South Korean navies Tuesday. More Articles
Korean Navies Trade Fire in First Incident in Seven YearsNorth and South Korean naval vessels exchanged fire in disputed waters off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday, leaving one North Korean vessel engulfed in flames, South Korean officials said. More Articles
The Implications of a Partial U.N. Relocation From Afghanistan THE UNITED NATIONS on Thursday announced plans to relocate about 600 personnel who have been working in Afghanistan. The move follows a recent attack on U.N. living quarters in Kabul that left six people dead. The relocation is intended to be temporary, and U.N.
International aid for Ketsana Victims given under presumption of Arroyo's corruption[Manila, Philippines] But what if a given administration has been wallowing in a long litany of duly exposed big and scandalous corrupt deals and devious practices, has wherefore received definitely more than one public dreadful citation for corruption according to the judgment …
U.N. evacuates foreign staff from AfghanistanThe United Nations said on Thursday it would evacuate hundreds of its international staff from Afghanistan for several weeks due to deteriorating security, a sharp blow for Western efforts to stabilize the country.
Given the warm and friendly welcome from the President yesterday, plus rousing standing ovations (on cue, no doubt) as she addressed Congress, one would rightly assume that all was well in the camp of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her host.
Pakistan seeks US trade, not aid, says ministerDUBAI: Pakistan plans to send an official delegation to the United States in mid-November to attract investment in a bid to revive its economy following a series of militant attacks, a senior official said on Sunday.
Mystery deepens over Vienna UN death A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death, says a doctor who carried out a second post-mortem examination.
BBC NEWS | Africa | Anger at Zimbabwe UN envoy snubThe chief UN torture investigator is extremely livid at being turned away in Harare by officials from the Zanu-PF party after he was invited by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, to investigate allegations of torture.
When United Nations Security Council is expanded, India will be a part: George W. BushFormer President George W Bush, just gave a speech in New Delhi for the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. He hasn't changed much. The article contains quotes covering numerous issues beside this one which is of most interest in India.
Iran Rejects Deal to Ship Out Uranium, Officials Report Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday that it would not accept a plan its negotiators agreed to last week to send its stockpile of uranium out of the country, according to diplomats in Europe and American officials briefed on Iran's response.
Fight Over Global Warming Heats Up - WSJ.comTwo years ago, a United Nations scientific panel won the Nobel Peace Prize after concluding that global warming is "unequivocal" and is "very likely" caused by man. Then came a development unforeseen by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC: Data suggeste …
There is no compromising with fanatical, irrational, militant religious zealotsThe Obama administration is a little late to the party. While this week Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others are speaking out against a U.N.
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