UN rights chief warns of $60 million funding shortfall The United Nations Human Rights Office faces a dire financial crisis with a shortfall of at least $60 million this year due to funding cuts ...

It’s a little-known fact, but one that deserves to be highlighted: Belgium is the world’s fifth-largest supplier to the United Nations, after the United States, Denmark, the United Arab Emirates, and ...

Since its founding in 1945, the United Nations has required every member state to contribute to its regular budget based on a formula that considers gross national income and population, among other ...

In an open letter to Australian authorities, United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on torture, Alice Edwards, and UN special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, Albert Barume ...

On Tuesday, 27 May 2025 at the United Nations Headquarters, the Permanent Mission of Latvia to the United Nations, in partnership with the UN Movie Society of the United Nations Staff Recreation ...

In its resolution, the UN General Assembly recommends ways to celebrate the year and encourages all UN Member States, the United Nations System, and relevant stakeholders to leverage this event to ...

Their fight for justice, peace, security – their freedom – is the same fight that gave birth to the United Nations eighty years ago and underpins the human rights law we claim to defend.

(Beyond Pesticides, May 15, 2025) The United Nations’ Conference of Parties (COP) for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), originally adopted by 128 countries in 2001, ...

The United Nations is looking to cut its budget and eliminate nearly 7,000 jobs, an internal memo obtained by Reuters found. The directive from the U.N. Secretariat asked staff to detail cuts by ...

A group of seven European nations has called for an end to Israel’s military assault and blockade of Gaza, as the United Nations aid chief says time should not be wasted on an alternative United ...

United Airlines announced on Tuesday that its new Boeing 787-9 aircraft will offer a larger upgraded selection of premium business class seats and two new business class suites called the United ...