United Nations

More than 100 nations have approved a declaration calling on governments to intensify efforts for safe and orderly migration.

A war crime is an action during an armed conflict that violates the international humanitarian rules of war, often referring to violence against civilians.

The United Nations says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres plans to meet separately with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine next week to make an urgent plea for peace

The U.N. children’s agency says nearly two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have fled their homes in the six weeks since Russia’s invasion

The United Nations is urging donor nations to provide $80 million for an emergency operation to remove a million barrels of crude oil from a tanker moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen since 1988 that could explode or leak causing a major environmental disaster in the Red Sea and beyond

The U.N. General Assembly suspended Russia from the world organization’s leading human rights body over allegations that Russian soldiers killed civilians while retreating from the region around Ukraine’s capital.

In an impassioned speech to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the removal of Russia as a permanent member over allegations of war crimes. “Remove Russia… so it can not block decisions about its own aggression, its own war.”

Ukraine’s president asked the U.N.’s most powerful body on Tuesday to remove Russia from the Security Council “so it can not block decisions about its own aggression,” or “dissolve” themselves altogether if they are unable to hold Moscow accountable for war crimes.

A new report from the UN’s top body of climate scientists is warning that temperatures will go beyond a key danger point unless countries worldwide cut greenhouse emissions faster than they are currently committed to doing.

Russia and the other four permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — Britain, China, France and the United States — all currently have seats on the 47-member rights council.

The U_N_ Population Fund says new research shows that nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide — 121 million annually — are unintended, which it calls “a neglected crisis.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country is at a “turning point” in the war with Russia

David Beasley warned Tuesday the war in Ukraine has created “a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe” and will have a global impact.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog says its director-general is in Ukraine for talks with senior government officials on delivering “urgent technical assistance” to ensure the safety of the country’s nuclear facilities

A top United Nations human rights official said “any ill treatment” of prisoners of war must stop immediately.

The U.N. General Assembly is voting Thursday on a resolution backed by over 90 countries that blames Russia for the escalating humanitarian crisis in Ukraine

Antonio Guterres pulled no punches in remarks broadcast Monday morning.

The head of the United Nations says countries scrambling to replace Russian oil, gas and coal supplies with any available alternative may fuel the world’s “mutually assured destruction” through climate change

The U.N. migration agency estimates that nearly 6.5 million people have now been displaced inside Ukraine, on top of the 3.2 million refugees who have already fled the country

Drone footage reveal damage in the city of Kyiv after a Russian missile fell on a residential building in the northern part of the Ukrainian capital.