AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST

The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›

By apparently killing the perpetrator of Wednesday's brazen assault, prime minister Stephen Harper indicated that his government was resolved to toughen the country's security legislation... READ MORE›

AS SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS WORSENS THERE IS NO MORE COUNTRY

MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE›

AT UN POPE ISSUES SWEEPING CALL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE

Standing before the General Assembly in his first speech here Francis endorsed United Nations efforts to reach a global compact to fight poverty and climate change... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN TROOPS 'FIGHTING ALONGSIDE ASSAD'S ARMY AGAINST SYRIAN REBELS'

An unnamed activist with the Syrian rebel group the Free Syrian Army told The Times The Russians have been there a long time... READ MORE›

EDITORIAL LOST VOICES OF THE WORLDS REFUGEES

In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE›

MORE THAN 20 MILLION PEOPLE ARE AT RISK OF STARVING TO DEATH WILL THE WORLD STEP UP

The most harrowing reports come from Yemen, where the United Nations says a staggering 20 million people need humanitarian aid... READ MORE›

READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH

Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE›

FAMINE-HIT SOUTH SUDAN HIKES FEES FOR WORK PERMITS

War-ravaged South Sudan has hiked work permit fees 100-fold for foreign aid workers to 10,000, officials said, despite suffering from famine... READ MORE›

HOW AN AID CONVOY IN SYRIA

Before Red Cross and United Nations offices received the news that the convoy had been hit... READ MORE›

SYRIA'S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: THREE WAYS TRUMP COULD HELP

Policy experts at Amnesty International USA, the International Rescue Committee and Care agreed that the travel bans blocked an important route to safety for Syrians... READ MORE›

GLOBAL POVERTY DROPS SHARPLY WITH CHINA MAKING BIG STRIDES UN REPORT SAYS

In releasing the report, United Nations officials celebrated meeting some of the goals... READ MORE›

AID WORKERS KIDNAPPED IN FAMINE-HIT SOUTH SUDAN

The situation in Mayendit, South Sudan, is a level 4 famine... READ MORE›

STARVING SYRIANS ARE DENIED AID AMID POLITICAL JOCKEYING

Critics say the United Nations, eager to keep the Syrian government on board for peace talks with opposition groups, is either selling out or getting played... READ MORE›

UN SECURITY COUNCIL IS FAILING SYRIA, BAN KI-MOON ADMITS

We need some solidarity unity of purpose particularly among the permanent members of the security council he said in an interview... READ MORE›

PRESIDENT XI JINPING OF CHINA PLEDGES 2 BILLION TO FIGHT POVERTY

President Xi Jinping told the United Nations on Saturday that China would pledge 2 billion as an initial investment for development assistance to the poorest countries... READ MORE›

PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›

U.N. SAYS SOME OF ITS PEACEKEEPERS WERE PAYING 13-YEAR-OLDS FOR SEX

As the United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing over 100,000 people on the continent, the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy... READ MORE›

REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE PROMPTS WESTERN ENGAGEMENT IN SYRIA

To aid refugees fleeing the Central African Republic, for instance, he has to dip into a pot of United Nations money not earmarked for specific crises... READ MORE›

UN ADOPTS AMBITIOUS GLOBAL GOALS AFTER YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS

The new goals follow and expand on an earlier list, the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000... READ MORE›

70 ACHIEVEMENTS, 70 YEARS: A VISUAL GUIDE TO WHAT THE UN HAS DONE

70 achievements, 70 years a visual guide to what the UN has done... READ MORE›

PHOTOGRAPHS OF DAILY LIFE IN DOUMA

Syrian civil war Photographs of daily life in Douma... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDANS PRESIDENT SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH REBELS

In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE›

OBAMA TURNS TO CROWDFUNDING TO AID FLEEING SYRIANS

White House officials said the online fund-raising would not replace the government's efforts or other programs to help manage the refugee crisis... READ MORE›

UN OFFICIAL RESIGNS AMID ACCUSATIONS OF SEX ABUSE BY PEACEKEEPERS

For years, the issue of how to stanch sexual abuse in its ranks has bedeviled the United Nations... READ MORE›

MORE THAN 60 MILLION PEOPLE DISPLACED BY WAR IN 2015

The United Nations asks the world to turn its attention Saturday to people displaced by war conflict and other crises... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN FAMINE COULD SPREAD, REPORT SAYS

The report from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network says starvation is likely to occur in Koch county in the absence of humanitarian aid... READ MORE›

A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT

We could have added environmental human rights to that legacy last weekend but we failed... READ MORE›

UN OFFICIAL IN PEACEKEEPER SEX ABUSE CASE RESIGNS

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed a panel to review how the United Nations system as a whole handles allegations of sexual abuse against peacekeepers... READ MORE›

SYRIA CIVIL WAR: THE MAP THAT SHOWS HOW FEW SAFE HAVENS THERE ARE LEFT

The city of Al-Hasakah and its surrounding governerate are largely controlled by Kurdish and Christian forces though around a third of the territory is Isis extremists... READ MORE›