Peace—and U.N. prestige—took a beating at a Security Council meeting last week. To thank Dag Hammarskjold for pulling Israel and the Arabs apart two months ago, and to maintain the momentum ...

UNIC-Washington is part of the United Nations Department of Global Communications led by Under-Secretary-General Melissa Fleming. For more about UNIC Washington, watch our video here. A number of ...

Asked last week if she will run to become the United Nations’ next Secretary General, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados gave a thumbs up, smiled, and walked away. Unofficially, however ...

EXPLAINER: What Is the United Nations? In 1945 ... The U.N., though, has enduring power to solve these problems at least in part because of what it provides as a forum, says Heidi Tworek, an ...

Last month, world leaders converged for the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The intended agenda focused on the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals on climate change ...