Award-winning U.N.-accredited journalist, with 30+ years on four continents, almost half of it for AP in Washington, New York and Geneva.
The United Nations and its allies aren't giving up on efforts to clinch at least some of the 17 anti-poverty Global Goals for 2030 that have been set back by the COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine, and other major crises.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino said Pelé was unique in so many ways: the only player to have won the FIFA World Cup three times; an athlete with incomparable skills and imagination; and the ability to rise above racism and poverty.
NGOs and humanitarian organizations, many staffed and led by women, provide critical life-saving services in Afghanistan.
U.N. atomic watchdog chief Rafael Mariano Grossi said diplomatic efforts to set up the nuclear safety and security protection zone are progressing and he hopes to soon reach agreement and put the much-needed measures into place.
Haiti's violence has paralyzed the country, obstructed humanitarian aid, and fueled the resurgence of cholera amid a widening food crisis, U.N. officials emphasize.
Attacks targeting medical facilities, personnel and transport are prohibited under international humanitarian law.
Negotiators reached the 30% by 2030 or "30 by 30" deal – which would improve on the 17% of land and 10% of water now protected – just as the almost two-week United Nations Biodiversity Conference, or COP15, was due to end.
The 29-8 vote in ECOSOC on Wednesday, with 16 abstentions, immediately expelled Iran from the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, based on a U.S. resolution.
IAEA's director general and Ukraine’s prime minister announced the agreement for the U.N. atomic watchdog agency to establish a continuous presence of nuclear safety and security experts at all Ukrainian nuclear power plants.
The request is based on "the fundamental importance of the oceans as sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases and the direct relevance of the marine environment to the adverse effects of climate change on small island states."
As a subsidiary of the U.N. Security Council, the commission processed and paid US$52.4 billion to 1.5 million claimants for losses and damage suffered as a direct result of Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait from 1990 to 1991.
IFJ says the killings point to an "urgent" need for an international treaty on the safety and independence of journalists and other media professionals.
Proponents said its passage is critical with 339 million people in need of aid and nearly 50 million on the verge of famine.
At last month's G-20 summit hosted by Indonesia, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa pushed for A.U. membership as a needed step to confront climate change.
A sharp increase in threats against women parliamentarians was seen: 137 in 2022, up from 123 last year and almost quadruple the 37 cases just eight years ago.
UNEP's chief describes the summit as an opportunity to 'secure our life-support system, to make peace with nature.'
