United Nations

A UN report says that four times as many jobs were lost last year due to the coronavirus pandemic as during the worst part of the global financial crisis in 2009

Signaling a dramatic new direction for U.S. foreign assistance, President-elect Joe Biden is expected to announce Wednesday that he will nominate former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power to head the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to transition officials.

Henrietta Fore, executive director of UNICEF estimates that one out of every three children currently does not have access to in-person or remote learning.

This year, amid a tense climate, DE&I became a part of the corporate conversation. But as we enter 2021, talk isn’t enough. Leaders must be strategic and proactive in order to truly advance racial equity.

The U.N human rights chief says she expects the U.S. administration of President-elect Joe Biden will be “much, much better” when it comes to human rights, and warned of shrinking “democratic space” in Hong Kong — saying her office will be monitoring the rights situation there.

The United Nations chief is warning that “vaccine nationalism” is moving “at full speed.”

The U.N. humanitarian office says needs for assistance have ballooned to unprecedented levels this year because of COVID-19, projecting that a staggering 235 million people will require help in 2021.

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, women have been bearing the brunt of extra childcare duties and unpaid domestic work, a study by the UN has found. 

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who President-elect Joe Biden has nominated as U.S. ambassador the United Nations, said she has a message for diplomats around the world. “America is back,” Thomas-Greenfield said. “Multilateralism is back. Diplomacy is back.”

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Here are five things to know about the career diplomat.

The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year

The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program is sounding an alarm that war-torn Yemen faces “looming famine.”

The U.N. chief is appealing for a cease-fire across Myanmar to tackle surging COVID-19 cases ahead of Sunday’s elections

The Nobel committee awarded the world’s most prestigious prize, the Nobel Peace Prize, to the United Nation’s World Food Program as it urged countries to continue funding it. The program, located in more than 80 countries, provides food to people caught up in conflict and disasters.

This year’s U.N. General Assembly came as the world body prepared to commemorate a milestone in women’s rights: the 25th anniversary of the Beijing women’s conference that produced a global roadmap for gender equality.

Leaders of countries once subjugated to Western powers spoke out about still-stinging scars of colonialism at this year’s U.N. General Assembly.

At the 75th annual United Nations General Assembly, world leaders are floating solutions to combating the coronavirus while sometimes criticizing other nations and arguing the U.N. itself needs reform

President Donald Trump is demanding that the United Nations hold China accountable for the coronavirus pandemic as he defends his own handling of COVID-19 in America where the death toll has topped 200,000

The United Nations is marking its 75th anniversary with its chief urging leaders of an increasingly polarized, go-it-alone world to work together and preserve the organization’s most important success since its founding

With the pandemic still in force, world leaders are skipping the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering in New York