United Nations News

Responding to global hunger concerns, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is recommending the incorporation of insects into human diets.

Athens - That’s the opinion of a United Nations expert who warned yesterday that some of the austerity measures imposed on the Greek economy undermine Greek citizens’ access to jobs, health, water and energy.

The United Nations has accused the Syrian Army and Intelligence Agency along with a pro-government militia as being guilty conspirators in a series of sex and assault crimes against Syrian woman and children.

A new global plan from the World Health Organization aims eliminate polio by 2018, provided that world governments can contribute $5.5 billion.

U.N. investigations have stated that the Syrian regime is becoming more indiscriminate in its attacks and bombardments of population centers whilst the rebel opposition are simultaneously executing their prisoners of war without due process.

"Faked material . . . invented by hostile forces, defectors and other rabbles" was how North Korea described the latest U.N. investigation into its human rights violations and abuses.

The United Nations Security Council has approved the implementation of new sanctions against North Korea in response to the nuclear test that country carried out last month.

Thirty armed Syrian rebel fighters have detained UN observers who were based on the Israeli controlled Golan Heights region.

According to the United Nations the number of Syrians who have fled their home country as a result of the war there has reached a million.

The United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) issued a scathing report, accusing the United States of failing to properly deal with "sexual abuse committed by clerics and leading members of certain faith-based organizations."