A United Nations committee has passed a resolution condemning North Korean human rights abuses for the 19th year in a row. The Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution ...

25 experts will guide countries in designing tax policies that serve the Sustainable Development Goals while navigating the digital economy, climate transition, and widening wealth inequalities NEW ...

On Monday, a United Nations committee began a monumental meeting in Paris with the goal of ending plastic pollution globally. Even with a tight deadline, however, a solution may not come soon. The ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A key U.N. General Assembly committee adopted a resolution late Friday paving the way for negotiations on a first-ever treaty on preventing and punishing crimes against humanity ...

LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal has breached an international treaty by preventing the public from accessing key information about Europe's largest lithium mining project during its environmental licensing ...

United Nations representatives failed to come to an agreement on how to establish a fund that would finance the recovery of climate disasters in developing nations. Countries agreed last year on the ...

The United Nations Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW) issued findings Wednesday regarding Benin, Egypt, Peru and Seychelles’ adherence ...

Thai authorities are continuing to place refugees and asylum seekers at risk of torture by forcibly returning them to China, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, and other countries with well-documented ...

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has expressed serious concern over the ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged Japan to stop retaliating against a UN committee for women’s rights . The development follows the committee’s recommendation that Japan revise its domestic ...

The Caribbean-born incoming Chair is rallying delegates to ‘take innovative steps’. The UN Special Committee on Decolonization has elected Saint Lucia’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), H.E.

Elizabeth Coppin spent her youth in abusive schools and workhouses. Now, a U.N. committee on torture has agreed to hear her allegations of systematic human rights violations. By Ed O’Loughlin Human ...