Iran could withhold security commitments if European states invoke a U.N. mechanism to reimpose international sanctions on the Islamic Republic, a member of Iran's parliamentary national security commission said on Monday,

The International Seabed Authority has been directed to probe whether requests to mine the world's oceans comply with a key treaty.

The Taliban, which returned to power in 2021, has cracked down on the way women dress and behave in public, notably through so-called morality laws forbidding them from showing their faces outside the home.

On July 18, 2025, several United Nations experts, including Richard Bennett, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, published a

The United Nations refugee agency expressed concern on Friday about the impact of hostilities in Syria's southern city of Sweida on its aid operations, and urged all sides to allow more humanitarian access.

A spokesperson for the UN secretary-general told journalists that the UN is "ready to provide all possible humanitarian support and assistance to help mitigate the impact of this tragedy."

The head of a UN office in the Gaza Strip has described an aid distribution scheme run by a rival organization as a "sadistic death trap. " Philippe Lazzarini is the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA),

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar met the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Philemon Yang, in New York on Monday and raised