Margaret Besheer

Print The U.N. General Assembly approved five new members Thursday for two-year terms on the organization's powerful 15-nation Security Council in a lackluster “election.”

Print A senior U.N. humanitarian official expressed concern Friday about rising casualties in Ukraine, saying the toll in May was the highest

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Middle Eastern leaders on Monday to press Hamas to agree to a cease-fire proposal to stop the fighting in Gaza.

Print The United Nation's secretary-general has included Israel's military and Hamas on the annual blacklist of perpetrators who harm children.

Print The U.N. high commissioner for human rights delivered a bleak assessment of the situation in North Korea on Wednesday, a decade after an in-depth report shed light on severe and widespread abuses in the country.

Print The U.N. Security Council demanded Thursday that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) halt their siege on the North Darfur

Print The United States announced Friday more than $315 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Sudan, where 14 months of war between rival generals has left nearly 25 million people in need of aid.

Print The representatives of Sudan and the United Arab Emirates clashed Tuesday at the U.N.

United Nations — Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, on Wednesday urged an end to the war in Sudan, where hunger and violence have driven millions from their homes.

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi is scheduled to use this year’s World Refugee Day commemorations to spotlight the crises in Sudan and South Sudan, where millions have been displaced by fighting. VOA’s Margaret Besheer has more.