With more than 120 reports of rape in the last month, UN Peacekeepers are accused of standing by as situation in South Sudan worsens. Thousands of women and children are fleeing their home and seeking shelter at the UN compounds. Are the blue helmets doing their job?

Director General of the International Organization for Migration states that “This is an historic day, not only for IOM and the UN, but for migrants and their families across the globe” as UN General Assembly unanimously votes to make the organization a related body of the United Nations.

In recent months, the world has witnessed rapid growth in the frequency of "lone wolf" terror attacks. As counter-terrorism organizations grapple with halting this trend, recent changes in ISIS propaganda provide insight into why this change in tactics has come to pass

La diciassettenne Nicolaia Rips ha di recente pubblicato il suo primo libro, “Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel” un memoir che racconta della sua esperienza di vita nell'iconico albergo che è stato scenario di grandi amori e grandi scandali. Ho avuto la fortuna di ascoltare quelle...

As Ban Ki-moon introduces The Sustainable Development Goals Report of 2016, the United Nations considers the first seven months of Agenda 2030, and looks forward to the next steps in implementing its goals. As countries are called upon to share data and present their progress, success hinges upon their cooperation

Nicolaia Rips, a 17 year old memoirist, recently released her first work entitled "Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel", detailing her unique upbringing in the historic establishment that was home to both great love and great scandal. I had the luck of befriending her in high...

Having received the support of the United Nations, Erdogan's government is cautioned by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein to show restraint and respect democracy. However, what is there left to defend after Turkish freedom of the press has been crushed long ago?

As the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the Quartet report detailing the tensions in the Middle East, Israeli ambassador Danny Danon produces shocking new evidence that Hezbollah has a stockpile of missiles aiming at Israeli civilians in Southern Lebanon

South Sudan has undergone a series of violent setbacks since it’s creation as an independent state. As Violence breaks out in the city of Juba, the UN Security Council holds an emergency meeting and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asks for attack helicopters to protect civilians

Following altercations with police in St. Paul and Baton Rouge in which two African American men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, lost their lives and their tragedy was captured on video, NYC residents will gather in Union Square to protest police brutality and honor the lives lost