An agreement said to be is mostly ready with only small differences yet to be ironed out.
The world population is projected to be more than 9 billion by 2050.
Scientists urge the world to spend more on research and development expenditures, saying it is the way to escape poverty.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has been blamed for rising violence in the country.
Aid agencies estimate that fighting in the country has rendered homeless at least 7.6 million people still living in the country.
The United Nation's children's fund warned that the ongoing cholera outbreak in South Sudan could claim a devastating number of lives if it spreads to war-torn areas.
The Texas Senator's call came after the body passed a resolution to condemn Israel's conduct during the 2014 Gaza war. The U.S. was the only country to vote against it.
The United Nations has decided to send a mission to assess violence in South Sudan amid allegations of some of the worst violence the country has seen in recent years.
Greece missed its scheduled debt repayment Tuesday, making it the first advanced economy to default in the IMF's seven-decade history.
According to an assessment by Unesco, at least 34 million children in conflict-hit nations are currently out of school.
The damning report was made worse by the fact that the U.N. provided assistance to only 12 percent of the victims of sexual offenses.
The U.N. says both Israel and Palestinian factions may have committed war crimes, igniting anew an old fear in Israel.
At least two dozen people were killed in two separate terror attacks in southwest and central Somalia on Thursday.
Israel will issue a report on Sunday arguing its 2014 Gaza offensive was lawful, a move aimed at pre-empting the release of findings of a U.N. war crimes investigation.
Nearly a third of the victims of sexual exploitation in the country were under the age of 18, according to a U.N. report.
Negotiations between representatives of Yemen's exiled president and the country's Shiite Houthi rebels will be conducted in Geneva this month.
U.N. agencies in Israel and the Palestinian territories reported an alarming number of child victims in last year's war in the Gaza Strip but were split on whether Israel should be put on a list of violators of children's rights.
Greece's international creditors signaled on Wednesday they were ready to compromise to avert a default even as a defiant Athens warned it might skip an IMF loan repayment due this week.
The Islamic State has been accused repeatedly of torturing and even killing children.
A U.N. official had urged the organization to include the Israeli military in a list of states and organizations accused of violating children’s rights during armed conflicts.
According to a United Nations report, about 795 million people worldwide are going hungry today -- a fall of over 21 percent in the last 25 years.
A Tuareg-dominated rebel coalition says the Malian soldiers were taken captive in the town of Tesset.
