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Four U.N. agencies have issued a warning that the coronavirus pandemic is creating a starvation crisis that will take an especially heavy toll on children. By the end of the year, more than 270 million could be hungry. The crisis is not sparing the U.S. More than 10% of Americans say they are “food scarce” right now, according to new...

Hunger linked to fear of the coronavirus and restrictions is leading to the deaths of 10,000 more children every month worldwide

The U.N. secretary-general has made a sweeping call to end the global inequalities that sparked this year’s massive anti-racism protests and have been further exposed by the coronavirus pandemic

The United Nations Security Council on Saturday adopted a resolution that leaves only one of two border crossings open for aid deliveries from Turkey into Syria, NBC News reports. “The veto is against us,” Mustafa Alkaser told NBC News from a refugee camp in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. “It’s against the refugees, against the free Syrians who once stood up...

The U.N. weather agency says the world could see average global temperatures rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average for the first time in the coming five years

The U.N. Security Council is demanding an “immediate cessation of hostilities” in key conflicts including Syria, Yemen, Libya, South Sudan and Congo to tackle COVID-19.

Millions of people have been pushed into hunger by the new coronavirus, said the United Nations World Food Program.

Melissa Fleming, the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, explains the effort to combat coronavirus misinformation online by asking people to pause and think about content before they share it.

A global emergency delivery service that has kept tons of humanitarian aid flowing despite coronavirus travel restrictions could shut down next month if funding can’t be found to keep it running

The brother of George Floyd has made a heartfelt plea to the U.N.’s top human rights body to launch intense international scrutiny of systemic racism, killing of black people by police and violence against peaceful protesters in the United States

Structural racism in the U.S. is attracting the attention of the United Nations. Craig Mokhiber, the director of the NY Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, explains how the U.N. plays a role in defending human rights in the U.S.

The United Nations released a report documenting the global reach and impact of gay and transgender “conversion therapy,” calling for nations around the world to work to ban the scientifically discredited practice.

The United States and United Kingdom clashed with China and Russia over Beijing’s new national security law for Hong Kong during closed Security Council discussions that reflected increasing U.S.-China tensions

The U_N_ chief has warned the largest gathering of world leaders since the coronavirus pandemic began that it will cause “unimaginable devastation and suffering around the world.”

The United Nations says the 191 parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty have decided to postpone a conference to review its implementation because of the coronavirus pandemic

China is going after the United States over more than $1 billion that the Trump administration owes the United Nations in unpaid dues for its regular operating budget and arrears for its separate budget for peacekeeping operations

The United States on Friday objected to a proposed U.N. resolution on the coronavirus pandemic after diplomats said it had agreed to compromise language with China that didn’t directly mention the World Health Organization, an issue of growing dispute between the world’s two major economic powers. The U.S. objection to the Security Council resolution drafted by France and Tunisia...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering.”

The United Nations is calling on governments, companies and billionaires to contribute to a $6.7 billion fund for immediate needs in fighting the coronavirus pandemic in vulnerable countries.

While the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the United Nations food agency warned on Tuesday that a looming “hunger pandemic” will bring “the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.”