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Even the UN has admitted that the world will not be able to achieve gender equality by 2030, partly due to the setback from the social and economic fallout brought by the Covid-19 pandemic.

European Union leaders held talks on Thursday with U.N.

The United States, China and Russia argued during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday over who was to blame for spurring North Korea's dozens of ballistic missile launches and development of a nuclear weapons program.

Constantly having a smile on your face has its benefits, aside from having a better emotional state, like being less likely to develop the common cold.

Women are being systematically targeted by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

The idea of International Women's Day originated from labour movements which began in North America and Europe during the early 20th century.

175 countries endorse the new United Nations Plastic Pollution Treaty, as experts warn that plastic consumption is set to double in the world's biggest economies.

Moscow will send Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov to address the council in person on Thursday.

Marking one year of war, Ukraine and Russia lobbied countries at the United Nations on Wednesday for backing ahead of a vote by the 193-member General Assembly that the United States declared will "go down in history."

The United States on Sunday called for the United Nations Security Council to "vote immediately" to authorize the delivery of U.N.

The United Nations has warned that at least 870,000 people urgently need hot meals across Turkey and Syria.

The 2026 World Cup will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The United Kingdom faced a barrage of questions and criticism of its migration and poverty policies in a United Nations review of its human rights record on Thursday amid allegations that it is backsliding on freedoms.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told countries gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt on Monday they face a stark choice: work together now to cut emissions or condemn future generations to climate catastrophe.

Republican U.S. representatives heading to U.N. climate talks in Egypt plan to discuss developing critical minerals used in everything from nuclear energy and electricity transmission to batteries for electric vehicles, the head of the delegation said on Wednesday.

More than 100 Ukrainian women are testifying to their government regarding their traumatic experience with the Russian soldiers.

Putin has stated that peace talks can now start but that the annexed areas are not on the table.

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Monday to reject Russia's call for the 193-member body to hold a secret ballot later this week on whether to condemn Moscow's move to annex four partially occupied regions in Ukraine.

The UN secretary-general, as the leading defender of the world body's values, bluntly denounced the annexations.

UN Human Rights Council rejects holding Xinjiang debate

Turkish Cypriots give UN peacekeepers ultimatum: report

At least 458 children have died as a result of the catastrophic floods in Pakistan, accounting for nearly one-third of the total fatalities recorded so far.

U.S. President Joe Biden will co-host a food security summit later in September while in New York for the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, U.S.

UN rights chief to publish Xinjiang report on Wednesday

A ship carrying wheat from Ukraine to the drought-stricken Horn of Africa docked on Tuesday, the United Nations said, the first to make the journey since the Russian invasion six months ago.

Guterres travelled this week to Ukraine, where he met the presidents of Ukraine and Turkey, Volodymyr Zelensky and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the western city of Lviv Thursday

The U.N. chief and the presidents of Turkey and Ukraine discussed ways to end the war started by Russia and secure Europe's largest nuclear power station, which has come under shelling at the front lines.

Ukrainian forces said on Thursday they had beaten back a Russian attack in the southern region of Kherson, while the death toll from Russian shelling of Kharkiv city in Ukraine's northeast climbed as the nearly six-month war grinds on without let-up.

Russia strikes Kharkiv ahead of Erdogan, UN chief meeting with Zelensky

UN Myanmar envoy begins talks with junta chief