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Surprisingly, the perpetrators behind human trafficking around the world are often women, the U.N. reported Thursday.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has offered to host an emergency expanded G8 summit at the United Nations to discuss the global financial crisis.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday praised improving ties between Lebanon and Syria, but called on the two countries to take further steps to bolster security along their border.
Japan handily defeated Iran for a non-permanent seat on the U.N. security council and Austria and Turkey edged out Iceland in secret ballot voting Friday.
Taliban insurgents probably won't ease up on attacks in Afghanistan this winter as they have in the past, because their influence has spread beyond traditional strongholds to provinces around Kabul, the U.N. envoy to Afghanistan said Tuesday.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Monday for urgent action and deep reforms of the global financial system to alleviate the impact of the global financial crisis on the world's poorest.
Laura Bush decried illiteracy among women Tuesday, saying that midway through a decade-long U.N. education push nations have failed to make a dent in the numbers unable to read and write.
Nations concerned about Myanmar called on its military government Saturday to release all political prisoners, including pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and to start talking with the opposition.
Musicians will.i.am and Angelique Kidjo, actress Kristin Davis and model Elle Macpherson have helped launch a new campaign to cut global poverty in half by 2015.
Russia's U.N. ambassador said Tuesday he doesn't think Russia's recognition of two separatist regions in Georgia will lead to a new Cold War though he predicted a difficult period ahead in relations with the West.
An Iranian photograph showing a cluster of missile launches was apparently altered to add a fourth missile lifting off from a desert range, a defense analyst said Thursday.
The tragic sinking of the Titanic nearly a century ago can be blamed on low grade rivets that the ship's builders used on some parts of the ill-fated liner, two experts on metals conclude in a new book.
United Nations programs will distribute 8,000 tons of food and other help for Haitians in coming days as part of efforts to confront unrest over rising prices that set off recent rioting, officials said Thursday.
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and 25 other Nobel laureates on Thursday condemned the Chinese government's violent crackdown on Tibetan protesters and called on Beijing to exercise restraint.
Rakib Hossain, who grew up in Bangladesh distrusting the United Nations because of a water project gone wrong, is now evaluating programs funded by the U.N.
World leaders repeatedly warned the U.N. General Assembly that rich countries' failures to fulfill their pledges of aid are keeping poor nations from meeting U.N. goals of reducing poverty and achieving environmental stability.
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