The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Greek Coast Guard rescued 74 migrants on Crete, part of hundreds of arrivals over the weekend, as traffickers shift to longer Mediterranean routes from North Africa.

Emily Thornberry says recognition is vital step towards peace and without long-term solution war in Gaza will continue

UN officials say Israeli forces opened fire on starving civilians at an aid convoy

UN experts demand that the Taliban immediately transfer Barbie and Peter Reynolds to a hospital

Deaths reported as Israeli tanks move in on area IDF believes Hamas are holding some hostages

The U.N.'s children's agency says the war in Gaza has left over 650,000 students without access to education

Scores of people have been killed by the IDF trying to access one of 25 trucks filled with aid from the UN's World Food Programme.

The world's top court is poised to tell governments what their legal obligations are to tackle global warming, and possibly outline consequences for polluters that cause climate harm to vulnerable countries.

The top United Nations court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out top polluters' responsibilities towards the countries suffering most.

Today, business and human rights is a well-accepted field of study promulgated by academics, industry and civil society groups around the world. But in the mid-1990s, when a fledgling lawyer in England decided to sue a behemoth asbestos corporation in South Africa, the idea that corporations might have a responsibility…

Victims include 79 aid seekers who were gunned down in the north and 13 others killed in the south, medics say.