United Nations

The tapestry of Picasso’s “Guernica,” considered by many art critics as perhaps the most powerful anti-war painting in history, was considered a perfect artwork for the Security Council, the U.N.’s most powerful body charged with ensuring international peace and security

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States will vie for a seat at the U.N.’s human rights body, which would cement a return to a Geneva-based body that was shunned by the Trump administration

President Joe Biden’s choice for United Nations ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has been confirmed by the Senate.

The Senate confirmed Linda Thomas-Greenfield as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday.

“There is less access, let’s face it,” IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said of Iran’s nuclear sites after returning from Tehran. 

The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog says that Iran will begin offering its inspectors “less access” but will still allow the agency to monitor its atomic program.

Scholars are backing an idea that pushes social and ecological wellbeing over a system that pursues relentless economic growth.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield says China is “a strategic adversary” that threatens the world

A UN report says that four times as many jobs were lost last year due to the coronavirus pandemic as during the worst part of the global financial crisis in 2009

Signaling a dramatic new direction for U.S. foreign assistance, President-elect Joe Biden is expected to announce Wednesday that he will nominate former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power to head the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to transition officials.

Henrietta Fore, executive director of UNICEF estimates that one out of every three children currently does not have access to in-person or remote learning.

This year, amid a tense climate, DE&I became a part of the corporate conversation. But as we enter 2021, talk isn’t enough. Leaders must be strategic and proactive in order to truly advance racial equity.

The U.N human rights chief says she expects the U.S. administration of President-elect Joe Biden will be “much, much better” when it comes to human rights, and warned of shrinking “democratic space” in Hong Kong — saying her office will be monitoring the rights situation there.

The United Nations chief is warning that “vaccine nationalism” is moving “at full speed.”

The U.N. humanitarian office says needs for assistance have ballooned to unprecedented levels this year because of COVID-19, projecting that a staggering 235 million people will require help in 2021.

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, women have been bearing the brunt of extra childcare duties and unpaid domestic work, a study by the UN has found. 

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who President-elect Joe Biden has nominated as U.S. ambassador the United Nations, said she has a message for diplomats around the world. “America is back,” Thomas-Greenfield said. “Multilateralism is back. Diplomacy is back.”

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The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year

The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program is sounding an alarm that war-torn Yemen faces “looming famine.”