A United Nations committee has passed a resolution condemning North Korean human rights abuses for the 19th year in a row. The Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution ...

Nigeria’s Jimoh Ibrahim elected Chair of UN budget committee, pledging reforms, fiscal discipline and consensus-building.

Sola ShittuNigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, has been elected Chairman of the Fifth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, the powerful body ...

25 experts will guide countries in designing tax policies that serve the Sustainable Development Goals while navigating the digital economy, climate transition, and widening wealth inequalities NEW ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A key UN General Assembly committee adopted a resolution late Friday paving the way for negotiations on a first-ever treaty on preventing and punishing crimes against humanity ...

CDP Chair José Antonio Ocampo stressed that the extension should not be viewed as an opportunity to postpone reforms. Rather, he said, it should be used to accelerate efforts to address key structural ...

'rendered': 'Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amb Jimoh Ibrahim, has been elected chairman of the Fifth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, the body responsible ...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled that Australia breached international human rights law by detaining a group of young asylum seekers in immigration detention in Nauru. The committee ...

United Nations representatives failed to come to an agreement on how to establish a fund that would finance the recovery of climate disasters in developing nations. Countries agreed last year on the ...

The government is planning to form a high-level committee to implement and monitor the action plans it has committed to the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (UN CDP), as part of efforts ...