A new United Nations Special Committee report described Israel's conduct in Gaza as "consistent with the characteristics of genocide," including mass civilian casualties and using starvation as a weapon
The 2024 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference, usually referred to as Conference of Parties 29 (COP29), will probably be the final opportunity for the international community to accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis.
The humanitarian crisis in Haiti continues to worsen largely due to the persistent violence, a UN spokesperson said.
UN agencies and partners continue to deliver humanitarian aid to the crisis-impacted people in Lebanon amid escalating hostilities, Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN chief, said at a daily briefing.
A bulldozer of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) "deliberately demolished" an observation tower and perimeter fence of a UN position in Marwahin, a town in southern Lebanon, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has said.
Since the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), a non-governmental organisation based in Geneva, started collating data on persons displaced by disasters in 2018, this set of the population has been increasing.
Failing to adopt measures for Security Council reforms at its current session, the UN General Assembly on Tuesday decided unanimously to push the negotiations to the next, a move India decried as risking the process's legitimacy.
The Sudanese government on Tuesday denied any food gap in Sudan and called previous reports of famine in the country "exaggerated."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday proposed a comprehensive "Global Development Compact" at the Voice of Global South Summit with its foundation based on India's development journey and experiences of development partnership as leaders raised their concerns over debt burden, climate change and conveyed their sentiment for reforms at the United Nations.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for safeguarding the rights of indigenous people to live in peace and dignity, in his message on the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, observed annually on August 9.
