United Nations

Activists in Detroit have appealed to the United Nations over the cityu2019s move to shut off the water of thousands of residents.

The Millennium Development Goals will expire in 2015 and be replaced with the Sustainable Development Goals, which are intended to strengthen the international communityu2019s engagement with eradicating poverty and …

The UN's foremost expert on extrajudicial killing has called for international restrictions on the use of armed drones.

Homelessness in San Francisco has reached record highs, but the city provides multimillion-dollar tax breaks to companies like Twitter as it deems permanent supportive housing for the homeless too …

In Angelou's poem “A Brave and Startling Truth,” we can sense the poet's yearning for a more peaceful and loving future.

In this week's On the News Segment: The largest food companies are big polluters, and more.

A report released Tuesday by the London School of Economics depicts drug prohibition as a massive failure, a financial drain on economies and a violation of the basic human …

Gaza's Ark was badly damaged and partially sunk by a large explosion at about 3:45 AM Gaza time on April 29th.

UN civil society representatives won a significant victory in obtaining an international commission of inquiry into the genocide of the Tamils in Sri Lanka

If humanity fails to cut back dramatically on carbon emissions by 2050, according to an alarming new UN report, our planet may warm past the point of our ability …