United Nations News

Most people reading this article can go to their kitchen for a glass of water, or use the bathroom without a second thought. But what about the 2.5 billion people in our world today without sanitation or a source of clean drinking water?

On November 13, a moving Facebook note about Typhoon Haiyan and the current situation in the Philippines was posted. It is currently going viral and is entitled, 'I Need To Tell You.'

New York - The United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has reported that greenhouse gases are on a continuous upward trend due to a global failure to meet pledges of reduced carbon emissions.

Rwanda has breached international law by forcibly returning a refugee that had fled to Uganda and was under protection of the United Nations, critics charged this week.

New York - For the 22nd straight year, the United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted to condemn the United States' 53-year economic embargo against the small Caribbean island nation of Cuba.

Oslo - Norway has denied a request by the United States to receive and destroy a bulk of Syria's chemical weapons because it does not have the capabilities to complete the task by the mid-2014 deadline set forth by the US and Russia.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has tried to reassure Saudi Arabia that Washington shares Riyadh's goals of preventing a nuclear-armed Iran and bringing to an end the ongoing war raging in Syria.

Sacramento - Juan Mendez, the United Nation's lead torture investigator, says that he is worried about increased use of solitary confinement in United States' prisons and wants access to California lockups.

The report by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, Ben Emmerson, asks for the US to share information about attacks coordinated by the CIA and explain its position on the legal standing of the attacks.

A federal lawsuit that will reportedly be filed in New York on Wednesday alleges that Nepalese United Nations peacekeepers re-introduced cholera into Haiti.