The United States signaled its intent to return to UNESCO and pay arrears after China became its biggest contributor and a Chinese diplomat took over as deputy chief.
The United States won overwhelming support to be readmitted to the U.N. cultural and scientific agency UNESCO almost five years after it left.
Delegates at an extraordinary session of UNESCO's 193-member general conference voted "by a very large majority" on Friday to approve the U.S. proposal for rejoining the organization in July and paying US$619 million in arrears.
By far the largest share of the US$236 billion a year in illegal profits comes from forced commercial sexual exploitation.
Football's governing body will mark the 100th anniversary of the World Cup in Uruguay, where the first was held in 1930.
The U.N. agency's first global guidance urges governments to quickly regulate generative AI in education and research.
It suggests most jobs are only partly exposed to automation, and are more likely to be complemented than substituted.
Fourteen cases remain under investigation by U.N. investigators, who have met with authorities in Israel.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
