The United Nations headquarters is expanding its office space in Midtown to now span more than 425,000 square feet. Check out ...

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

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United Nations. The latest on the United Nations. Established on June 26, 1945, the United Nations Organization was established after World War II as an intergovernmental body with a stated goal ...

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

On 19 June 2015, the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/69/293) proclaimed 19 June of each year the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, in order to raise ...

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The former German foreign minister will be the president of the United Nation's General Assembly for a period of one year — despite backlash in Berlin.

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The United Nations Secretariat is preparing to cut its $3.7 billion budget by 20% and slash about 6,900 jobs, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.

The mother of Private Seán Rooney, the soldier killed while serving with the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force in Lebanon two years ago, has said that her decision to sue the UN is not about ...

Canada’s Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the federal duty to consult and engage Indigenous people on nation-building projects does not amount to a veto.