Sources: UN
The United States issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. 2025-07-9
United Nations advisors announce that it intends to add the Israeli military, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to their list of countries and armed groups that harm children in their upcoming "Children and Armed Conflict" report. 2024-06-7
Russia vetoes the continued monitoring of United Nations sanctions on the North Korean nuclear weapons program. 2024-03-29
Citing "influence operations against the United States," the US expels two Cuban diplomats at the United Nations. Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla dismisses the accusations as "vulgar slander." 2019-09-19
President Trump suggests that the United States could withhold foreign aid for countries that vote in favor of a United Nations resolution calling on the U.S. to withdraw its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. 2017-12-20
The United Nations and Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sends troops to South Kivu province after 37 people are killed there. 2014-06-8
The United Nations votes to send 12,000 peacekeepers to the Central African Republic to help protect citizens as Christians and Muslims continue to fight in the country. 2014-04-11
The United Nations estimates that the death toll was just under 93,000 as at the end of April. 2013-06-13
South Sudan appoints Francis Deng as its first ambassador to the United Nations. 2012-09-2
Actor Don Cheadle is appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations environment agency during a ceremony in Rwanda to mark World Environment Day. 2010-06-5