To combat this growing threat, the United Nations has declared 15 November as the International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against All Forms of Transnational Organized Crime.

Four generations after its founding, the United Nations is facing major funding cuts and renewed questions about its future.

Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed ...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the United ...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022. Founded in 1972 following the landmark UN Conference on the Human Environment, UNEP was conceived to monitor ...

While CEDAW does not explicitly refer to women and girls with disabilities, the General Recommendation of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination of Women no. 18 (a) notes that women with ...

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) first met at Lake Success, New York, in February 1947, soon after the founding of the United Nations. All 15 government representatives were women. From its ...

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Jersey has become the first non-member of the United Nations (UN) to host international talks, addressing humanitarian aid for those in crisis.. The island was selected to co-chair the UN Office ...

The United Nations and Darfur. For more than a year, from early 2003 until mid-2004, while the conflict in Darfur was escalating, the U.N. Security Council’s priority in Sudan was negotiations ...

The new Syrian government has agreed to give inspectors from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog access to suspected former nuclear sites immediately. Menu. World SECTIONS. Israel-Hamas war ...

For people in countries like Afghanistan and Myanmar, the president’s order dimmed hopes for sanctuary in the United States. ... In War-Torn Nations, Trump’s Travel Ban Brings a New Hardship.