African countries are rushing to fulfill their Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and some are more serious than others.
A day after the U.S. expressed solidarity for Syrian opposition, members of the coalition met in Istanbul on Thursday to elect a new leader.
The drop in tourism has been attributed to the global recession, a high crime rate and a lack of investment in infrastructure.
Britain and France have informed the U.N. that there is credible evidence pointing to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
Syria accused the U.N. Tuesday of attempting to broaden a probe into an alleged chemical attack, official news agency SANA stated.
There are still millions of unexploded landmines from historical wars all over the world, the U.N. says.
The General Assembly passed a treaty Tuesday aimed at keeping weapons from conflict zones and those who commit war crimes or genocide.
Monusco, a U.N. peacekeeping force in the DR Congo, will now include an intervention brigade with offensive combat capabilities.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is looking ahead to the establishment of a peacekeeping force as the French withdraw.
These five nations trade goods worth $282 billion a year with each other, and they want their own IMF and World Bank.
The U.N. Human Rights Council passed a resolution strongly criticizing Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes.
Former Khmer Rouge senior leader Ieng Sary, who co-founded the brutal Maoist regime of Cambodia died Thursday.
Syria’s main political opposition group is fed up with international inaction in the run-up to a conference in Rome next month.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has released its 2012 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, examining the crime of human trafficking around the world.
Israel boycotted a routine UN review of its human rights situation in response to a new report calling on Israel to abandon the West Bank.
Unwto issued its latest World Tourism Barometer on Monday, outlining which regions saw the greatest growth in 2012, and what to expect in 2013.
The "State of Palestine" isn't really a state, but that's what the plaque read at the Security Council. What ensued? A fight with Israel.
Is ecotourism a ticket out of poverty and the key to preserving our environment? The UN thinks so.
A U.N. helicopter that crashed -- killing all four crew members aboard -- in South Sudan on Friday was shot down by the country's armed forces.
The one-billionth tourist is predicted to cross an international border on Thursday, marking a milestone in human interaction.
There has never really been a sovereign state called Palestine.
Germany abstained from voting in Thursday evening's vote on the status of Palestine at the U.N.
