UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura announced yesterday that Security Council talks on the political transition in Syria will resume in August with the hope of executing a plan in September. He urged UNSC members to take responsibility and come prepared to cooperate

UNICEF released a report showing that this year's El Niño is one of the strongest ever recorded and has placed 26.5 million children at risk of malnutrition, water shortages, and disease in ten East and Southern African countries.

Former President of the UN General Assembly and Former Ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda died on Wednesday from "traumatic asphyxia." A very coincidental death just prior to his trial for corruption charges

On June 20th, World Refugee Day, the UNHCR released a report showing that 65.3 million people were displaced from their homes in 2015. One in every 113 people on Earth falls into these displaced categories. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi: “This year the hopeful signs are hard to...

Sweden and Italy are not only head-to-head in the UEFA Euro match, but also in the UN Security Council Elections, and to make things more difficult the Netherlands is in the race as well

The UNHCR projects that in 2017 Syrians will account for 40% of resettlement. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said, “We are seeing resettlement taken to a new level and that enhanced resettlement can be an effective means of sharing the responsibility for refugee protection”

The UN General Assembly passed a resolution that outlines the goals of the international effort to battle the global pandemic of HIV/AIDS over the next five years, as well as the long-term goal of extinguishing HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030

Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Martin Kobler and High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini recently briefed the UN Security Council on the increasingly volatile situation in Libya

The Chief International Criminal Court Prosecutor asserts that the unstable security situation in Libya has hindered their progress to indict criminals and bring Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi into custody. Bensouda called the Government of National Accord, Libya’s interim government, to collaborate to bring the nation’s criminals to justice