Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is in the news again.  The release of Australian cabinet documents from 2004 – a supposed treat for historians of Australian history each new year – has ...

Across the world, more people voted in 2024 than in any year in history. About half of the world’s adult population got the chance to vote in national elections. Polls ...

The U.N. agency known as UNRWA has been the backbone of aid to Gaza. Now, Israel is moving to ban it over accusations that it ...

Now, as the debate comes to a head in Washington, it seems pertinent to express the views of those who feel that conscription in any guise is a war measure out of keeping with the peacetime policy of ...

At the United Nations, meditation holds a special place, exemplified by the Meditation Room at UN Headquarters in New York. Opened in 1952 under the guidance of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld ...

DRC government asked for renewal of U.N. peacekeeping mission U.S. frustrated Security Council not specifically calling out Rwandan M23 support Rwanda denies backing M23 UNITED NATIONS ...

The most recent edition of the “UN Activities on AI Report” represents a collaborative endeavor between the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and 46 United Nations agencies and bodies. This ...

In 2023, the last year in which reasonably comprehensive global data were available, the United States was in 92nd place in a ranking of nations by public confidence in their judiciaries, at 42%. Five ...

At first, after Eleanor Roosevelt’s husband Franklin died in 1945, she had no thoughts of taking on any ... Truman, appointed her to the US delegation to the first assembly of the new United Nations.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says global governance institutions still reflect the world of 1945 and do not adequately serve or represent developing countries, in particular ...

This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. Everyone has the ...

Article 80 was inserted in the United Nations Charter in April 1945 after the Jewish Agency for Palestine submitted a Memorandum to the United Nations Conference on International Organization held in ...