UN appeals for funds to help contain Uganda Ebola outbreak
The United Nations has launched an emergency appeal to raise $11.2 million to help fund Uganda's response to an Ebola ...
Kim Jong Un's sister warns of provocative response to U.S. aircraft carrier deployment
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister said Tuesday that the deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier to South ...
UN sets date for extra session to finalize plastics treaty
The United Nations Environment Programme on Monday said a new round of negotiations toward a global plastics treaty will take ...
UN food program closes its southern Africa office in the wake of Trump administration aid cuts
The United Nations’ World Food Program is closing its southern Africa office in the wake of the Trump administration’s aid ...
One-year-olds among those raped during Sudan civil war, UN says
Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children as young as one during Sudan's civil war, says the UN children's agency ...
Japan won’t join UN meeting on nuclear weapons ban, citing support for US deterrence
Japan will not attend a U.N. conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons, a top government official in Tokyo said Monday ...
Ukraine routinely bucks US interests at the UN — despite receiving $175B: State Department data
Despite receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in critical military aide, Ukraine has made a habit of obfuscating U.S.
UN's Food Agency WFP Closes Southern African Bureau, Bloomberg News Reports
(Reuters) - The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), which gets much of its funding from the United States, is closing ...
Rebels in eastern Congo abducted 130 hospital patients, UN says
The United Nations says the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men in two hospitals in a ...
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It’s time to treat sexual violence in war as torture, writes a UN rapporteur
Indeed, torture survivors have historically been viewed as heroes who have overcome adversity, and communities tend to rally ...
UN Sets Date for New Talks on a Global Plastics Treaty
The last negotiations for a treaty to rein in plastic waste ended in a stalemate, but some participants saw signs of a possible breakthrough this summer.