The UN's 193 member states will mark Thursday the signing of the organisation's foundational treaty, the UN Charter, on June ...

Human Rights Watch leverages our research on countries and issues addressed at the United Nations to inform UN officials and member states of key findings, influence policy on a wide range of ...

Women currently serve as the head of government in just 13 of the 193 member states of the United Nations. This includes Mexico, where President Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as the country’s first ...

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees appears to have weathered a crisis stemming from Israeli accusations ... 118 United Nations member states publicly declared support for the ...

The United Nations’ vast system has tackled everything from delivering life-saving humanitarian aid to providing crucial ...

But the Palestinian Authority, which represents the Palestinian people at the U.N. where the delegation is known as the State of Palestine, is not a full member and does not have a vote in the 193 ...

The Security Council, the United Nations’ principal crisis-management body, is empowered to impose binding obligations on the 193 UN member states to maintain peace. The Security Council’s ...

The European Union and six of its member states formally ratified the United Nations treaty to protect the high seas on Wednesday in New York. This international agreement is seen as a critical ...

The Palestinians are a non-member observer state at the United Nations, the same status as the Holy See. The General Assembly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine ...

It was the League of Nations, an ambitious entity established 100 years ago this month that asked its member states to ensure one another’s security and national interests.