The Latest News about The United Nations

“A draft UN resolution…singles out the United States and could become the centerpiece of a hastily scheduled debate by the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday. “The text calls for a commission of inquiry — the rights body’s most powerful tool to inspect human rights violations — to look into ‘systemic racism’ and abuses against ‘Africans and of people ...

Multiple outlets deleted entire stories Tuesday after falsely reporting the number of children currently in migrated-related U.S. custody. Outlets including Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), NPR and Aljazeera jumped on a report from the United Nations, writing Monday that the country has the world’s highest rates of detained children. The outlets reported that there are currently over 100,000 children in immigration-related ...

President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday morning. The event is scheduled to begin at 10:15 AM EDT. Watch: Content created by Conservative Daily News and some content syndicated through CDN is available for re-publication without charge under the Creative Commons license. Visit our syndication page for details and requirements.

President Donald Trump leads the United Nations Religious Freedom event Monday morning. Watch: Content created by Conservative Daily News and some content syndicated through CDN is available for re-publication without charge under the Creative Commons license. Visit our syndication page for details and requirements.

Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar told a crowd in Minneapolis that the United Nations should be deployed at the southern border to manage the immigration crisis, claiming that the U.S has committed human rights abuses. “There is no good way to detain immigrants,” Omar said Tuesday before during a forum in south Minneapolis, according to the Star Tribune. “We are ...

The United Nations is out with a familiar refrain — ecological catastrophe is decades away, echoing a warning from 1982. In 1982, the U.N. warned of environmental destruction “as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust” by the turn of the century. This time, the U.N. says one million species are threatened with extinction, including many that could die out within decades. ...

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz criticized a newly released United Nations report on Monday that concluded Israel committed war crimes against Palestinians during a 2018 protest despite Hamas’s use of human shields. “This U.N. report is on its face absurd and dishonest and we know because they have been doing it for a long time,” Cruz said on a telephone ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown excoriated the Trump administration’s “behavior” at the United Nations climate summit in Poland, arguing it did “not represent the people of the United States.” “The United States, I’m sorry to say, does not represent the people of the United States,” Brown said in a video address to U.N. delegates gathered in Katowice for the summit, called COP24. ...

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he intends to nominate State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert to replace outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley. “She’s very talented, very smart, very quick, and I think she’s going to be respected by all,” Trump told reporters Friday morning. Nauert has been the State Department spokesperson since April 2017 after working ...

CO2 emissions blamed for global warming are expected to hit record highs this year. At least $2 billion has gone toward United Nations climate summits meant to stop global warming. “$2 billion was spent on these meetings, and for what?” one energy expert asks. Global carbon dioxide emissions will likely hit record highs this year, according to a new report ...

Environmentalists at COP24, a United Nations climate conference in Katowice, Poland, are worried that France is setting a bad example by backing off a climate tax after hundreds of thousands protested. French President Emmanuel Macron postponed a gas tax hike Tuesday for six months after the proposal ignited protests that have lasted over two weeks. The protesters, known as “yellow ...

The U.N.’s climate summit will emit as much carbon dioxide as more than 8,200 American homes. It’s also equivalent to more than 11,700 cars driving for one year or 728 tankers trucks worth of gasoline. When air travel is factored in, the summit’s emissions are likely higher, according to one expert. This year’s United Nations climate summit will have a ...

  The Iranian regime test-fired a medium-range ballistic missile Saturday that is in clear violation of a U.N. resolution. The missile, capable of carrying multiple warheads, has a range that allows it to strike parts of Europe and anywhere in the Middle East. The test violates UN Security Council resolution 2231 that bans Iran from undertaking “any activity related to ballistic missiles ...

The United Nations took a thinly veiled swipe at conservative voters in its latest assessment of global progress on climate change.

The First Daughter told the world that she won’t be taking Nikki Haley’s job as U.S. Ambassador the United Nations, but there must be something behind the way Ivanka Trump chose to make that announcement. “It is an honor to serve in the White House alongside so many great colleagues and I know that the President will nominate a formidable ...