At 80, the United Nations faces structural and strategic challenges. Here's what you need to know about the UN's design, ...

Follow our live coverage as the General Assembly and its Fifth Committee meet today to finalize negotiations and vote on the ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — World leaders begin convening Monday at one of the most volatile moments in the United Nations’ 80-year history, and the challenges they face are as dire as ever if not more so: ...

President Biden denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, telling world leaders that the very basis of the ...

NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban and other law enforcement officials provided a briefing Thursday about their preparations. The new commissioner was asked whether he's nervous about being in charge of ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine’s president urged global leaders Wednesday to stand with his country and not seek “a lull” instead of a “real, just peace” more than two years into Russia’s war. At a ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China told assembled world leaders Thursday that it considers itself part of the Global South, saying it identifies with the goals and challenges of less-developed nations and ...

GOVERNMENT," said Alexander Hamilton, "ought to contain an active principle." Political institutions which advance the welfare of their human constituents achieve an internal state which is cohesive ...

The session will feature top leaders in New York City in person for the first time in three years. But the tone will be one of crisis, not triumph. Leaders from more than 150 countries are scheduled ...

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was adopted by the General Assembly on Thursday, 13 September 2007, by a majority of 143 states in favour, 4 votes against ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Nearly all the world’s on stage, and all the men and but 20 women merely players. That’s what a less-inspired Shakespeare might have written about this year’s U.N. General ...