GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief on Thursday appealed for $500 million in extra-budgetary resources for 2025 to support the monitoring and investigation of human rights abuses around the world from Syria to Sudan.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for the United States to consider additional exemptions to a 90-day pause on its foreign assistance to "ensure continued delivery of critical development and humanitarian activities.

A World Health Organization staff member hopes to raise enough money through fundraising on social media to soften the impact of President Donald Trump pulling the United States out of the organisation,

Geneva: UN investigators on Thursday said serious international crimes had been committed in the four years since Myanmar s military coup, warning

On Thursday, laws passed by Israel in October come into effect banning the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, known as UNRWA, from Israeli territory and prohibiting Israeli officials from any contact with the agency.

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality perspecti

The United Nations human rights chief on Thursday appealed for $500 million in extra-budgetary resources for 2025 to support the monitoring and investigation of human rights abuses around the world from Syria to Sudan.

La economía estadounidense cerró 2024 con un crecimiento sólido, aunque más moderado, ya que una huelga en Boeing Co. e inventarios más ajustados disminuyeron el generoso viento de cola proveniente del gasto del consumidor.

The United Nations (UN) rights chief said Thursday his office would need US$500 million on top of its regular budget to help face towering rights challenges around the world this year. "Lives are at stake if we don'

Britain submitted further details of its plan to cut carbon emissions to the United Nations climate body on Thursday, outlining actions it is taking to hit the ambitious targets announced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer last year.

China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran are all working together against the United States and it will take a strong effort, alongside our allies, to push back against the UN,” said Foreign Relations Committee chairman Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho., in a ...