Francesca Albanese, born in 1977, is the UN’s independent voice for Palestinian rights. Appointed by the UN Human Rights ...

• A Malta -led draft resolution on enhancing the protection of children in conflict transitions was unanimously approved the ...

“Women produce up to 80 percent of food in developing countries,” Ibrahim Thiaw, the outgoing executive secretary of the ...

Syrians in Damascus, the capital, reading the records of the infamous Sednaya prison in search of missing people. The rebels who overthrew the government of Bashar al-Assad this week freed the ...

“The world is big. There are different parts of the world. We’re far from each other, and that’s the beauty of the United Nations—that we get to be together, closer, to understand each other’s way of ...