
Top U.N. human rights body to monitor Belarus
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted to examine abuses from Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko’s crackdown over a disputed presidential election.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted to examine abuses from Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko’s crackdown over a disputed presidential election.
The top American diplomat rebuked the U.N. Human Rights Council a day after it commissioned a report on racism and police brutality.
The U.N. General Assembly urged all nations to join in ensuring universal access to medical supplies, drugs, future vaccines and testing for the pandemic.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted to create a mission to investigate cases of suspected human rights abuses in Venezuela over the past five years.
More than half of the world’s 7.1 million school-age refugee children fail to receive a basic education due to lack of money, classrooms and teachers.
Wars and conflicts displaced a record 70.8 million people worldwide in 2018, up 3% from a year earlier, the U.N. refugee agency reported.
Swiss leaders used a meeting with the top U.S. diplomat to try to resuscitate American leadership towards important post-World War II multilateral institutions.
An international organization of 178 parliaments condemned the Venezuelan president’s government for barring lawmakers from going to a global assembly.
IFRC said Venezuela will allow it to deliver emergency aid, the first time President Nicolás Maduro's government acknowledged the humanitarian crisis.
Britain's ambassador to the United Nations linked Venezuela's gold holdings in the Bank of England to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's grip on power.
Nikki Haley will resign her post as U.S. envoy to the U.N. at the end of 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump announced without explaining why.
The U.N. Security Council held its first meeting devoted to the ties between corruption, peace and security, focusing especially on Venezuela.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said it will withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council, complaining of bias against Israel.