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.

North County Rep. Elise Stefanik moved one step closer to being confirmed as President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to advance her nomination out of committee and into a vote by the full Senate.

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.

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.

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

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

Violent weather exacerbated by climate change fueled hunger and food insecurity across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, according to a new United Nations report.

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.

"I never expected to meet you at this place," said Kim to Trump. The US president had organised the last-minute rendezvous on Twitter, as it was then known, just 30 hours earlier when he suggested meeting Chairman Kim at the DMZ "just to shake his hand and say Hello (?

The United Nations confirmed Tuesday it had received notification from Washington of its withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement, a key campaign pledge of US President Donald Trump. Washington typically provides 22 percent of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat's budget,