Sources: VOA
Addressing the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner demands the United Kingdom enters negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. 2012-06-14
Clashes continue in Syria as United Nations observers are due to arrive in the country. 2012-04-15
The United Nations will send experts on a government-led humanitarian mission. 2012-03-15
Syrian uprising: At least 45 women and children are killed and burned in Homs after the United Nations visited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to discuss the uprising. 2012-03-10
A United Nations official claims that Syrian government activities have caused "well over 7,500 deaths" in the Syrian uprising. 2012-02-29
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay calls for an immediate ceasefire and demands humanitarian access. 2012-02-28
France, Spain, Netherlands and Italy recall their ambassadors for more consultations. 2012-02-7
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls on the Syrian regime to "stop killing its own people". 2012-01-15
Thousands of Sri Lankans protest against a United Nations report calling for both sides involved in the civil war to be investigated for possible war crimes. 2011-05-2
The Texas Education Agency adopts controversial changes to the Texas public school curriculum, including dropping coverage of enlightenment thinker Thomas Jefferson and suggesting United Nations is a "threat to freedom". The proposal to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade" is not implemented. 2010-05-22