United Nations

In Mumbai, some prosperous neighborhoods sit alongside slums. This year's Gates report on progress toward eliminating poverty notes that there is vast inequality not only between nations, but within many of them.

Gates Foundation Says World Not On Track To Meet Goal Of Ending Poverty By 2030

1:43pm September 17, 2019

by Nurith Aizenman

The foundation has just released its annual report on progress toward Sustainable Development Goals. The conclusion: Inequality is rampant, and it's time for some hard choices.

Samantha Power speaks on Jan. 13, 2017, during her final press conference as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Books

In New Memoir, Samantha Power Describes Going From Idealist To Diplomat

5:05am September 12, 2019

by Noel King

NPR's Noel King speaks with Samantha Power about her memoir The Education of an Idealist. In her book, Power describes how she went from working outside the system to moving inside, as a diplomat.

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Rescued migrants sit on the coast of Khoms, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the Libyan capital Tripoli, on July 26, 2019. About 145 migrants were rescued by the Libyan coastguard, and survivors had reported that about 150 people remained missing.

World News

150 Migrants Feared Dead In Mediterranean's Worst Loss Of Life This Year

12:58pm July 26, 2019

by Josh Axelrod

"Our death rate is rising alarmingly," a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokesperson says. Aid agencies continue rescue efforts off the shore of Libya, hoping to save anyone else who survived.

U.S. Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Jackie Wolcott at a board of governors meeting in Vienna, Austria on Wednesday.

World News

President Trump Warns Of New Sanctions On Iran After Breaches Of Nuclear Deal

10:48pm July 10, 2019

by Shannon Van Sant

Trump's warning came after the U.S. urged a special meeting of a United Nations nuclear watchdog which monitors Iran's compliance with the agreement.

Rohingya refugees gather in the "no man's land" behind Myanmar's barbed-wire-lined border in Maungdaw district, Rakhine state, in 2018. Some 700,000 refugees fled into Bangladesh following a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military in 2017.

World News

Nearly 71 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide As Of 2018, U.N. Report Says

3:25pm June 19, 2019

by Ashley Westerman

The record number headlined the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' annual "Global Trends" report published Wednesday, just a day before World Refugee Day.

A map locating the attack that took place on June 9 in Sangha district and March 23 attack targeting two villages in Bankass district in Mali.

World News

U.N. Says At Least 95 People Killed In Attack On Mali Village

9:38pm June 10, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

It's the latest in a spate of deadly attacks in a region that has seen escalating tensions between ethnic groups. The U.N. says a group of armed men poured into the village Sunday evening.

A Houthi soldier stands guard during a rally to mark the fourth anniversary of the war in Yemen on March 26, 2019 in Sana'a, Yemen.

World News

Houthi Rebels In Yemen Say They Have Begun Withdrawing From 3 Strategic Ports

4:40pm May 11, 2019

by Shannon Van Sant

The move would be the first step towards implementation of a ceasefire agreed to by the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces in December. The ports serve as a lifeline for humanitarian aid.

A Seychelles magpie-robin at the protected Cousin Island Special Reserve in Seychelles.

Environment

Opinion: 1 Million Species Are At Risk Of Disappearing. Humans Should Act Now

3:49pm May 11, 2019

by Scott Simon

This week, the U.N. issued the summary of a report warning of unprecedented declines in biodiversity. Scott Simon makes the case for humankind to assume responsibility for protecting the vulnerable.

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African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat (from left), Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Rwandan first lady Jeannette Kagame and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker light the flame of remembrance at the Kigali Genocide Memorial i

World News

Rwanda's Genocide Victims Remembered 25 Years Later

7:51pm April 07, 2019

by Francesca Paris

Some 800,000 Rwandans, mostly from the country's Tutsi minority, were killed in the mass slaughter. President Kagame said the country is "wounded and heartbroken, yes. But unvanquished."

Survivors of an attack in the western village of Bongende, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, stand next to what is said to be a mass grave containing the bodies of 100 people killed during days of violence in the region in December 2018.

World News

U.N. Report Says Massacres In Congo Might Constitute Crimes Against Humanity

2:13pm March 13, 2019

by Cat Schuknecht

A United Nations investigation finds at least 535 men, women and children were killed in December amid a conflict between the Banunu and Batende communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.