The United Nations General Assembly adopted a international resolution on Friday calling for more accurate and balanced representations of relative continental landmasses on global maps. In a recorded vote that secured support from 107 member...
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The United Nations warned that global efforts to end violence against children remain off track for 2030. The assessment comes 20 years after the landmark UN study on violence against children. A new progress report...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP) marked International Women’s Day 2025 with a renewed call for the empowerment...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP) marked International Women’s Day 2025 with a renewed call for the empowerment...
United Nations (UN) officials voiced urgent concern on Friday about a prospective humanitarian disaster in cyclone-ravaged regions of Myanmar. Insufficient aid deliveries and a potential food crisis are top concerns following last month's destructive Cyclone...
On the eve of the first major U.N. water conference in over 45 years, 26% of the world's population lacks access to safe drinking water and 46% lack basic sanitation. According to the UN World...
Actress and activist Jane Fonda is calling for a treaty to protect marine creatures hunted for food like sharks, swordfish, octopus, and tuna, saying they feel joy and sadness when they lose their offspring and...
A key requirement for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an increase of $500 billion in extra funding from the world's most developed nations each year according to the United Nations (UN). As...
By 2023, the UN's aviation agency predicts that global air passenger demand will increase by 3% from 2019 levels on most routes, quickly returning to pre-pandemic levels. As previously noted by ICAO statistical analysis, the...
The first U.S. Cabinet member to visit Somalia since 2015 called on distracted donors to help a country facing deadly famine, which she called "the ultimate failure of the international community." As the U.S. ambassador...