The General Assembly is one of the six main organs of the United Nations, the only one in which all Member States have equal representation: one nation, one vote. The Economic and Social Council ...

In 1949, the building of the United Nations headquarters on Manhattan's East Side made New York the world's capital. The United Nations, created in October 1945, aimed to promote peace but lacked ...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Member States today as he opened a High-Level Event on Climate Change convened in New York by the President of the UN General Assembly ...

UNITED NATIONS ... many donor nations had reduced humanitarian spending, and U.N. agencies struggled to reach funding goals. Among the ideas being discussed in New York is a proposal to form ...