UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq The United Nations says the US must allow accredited Iranian diplomats to carry out their work freely, affirming the world body`s position that Washington, as host country, is obligated to permit the unrestricted movement of all UN-based diplomatic personnel...

A view of the United Nations General Assembly in session The United Nations General Assembly has passed a draft resolution demanding Israel withdraw from Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East al-Quds, and recognize the Palestinian people`s right to self-determination and establishment of an independent state...

The United Nations has warned that drastically reduced rainfall across Afghanistan is pushing the country toward a large-scale drought, similar to the devastating crisis of 2018, which could plunge millions into hunger and further deepen the ongoing humanitarian emergency...

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has warned that a large portion of Afghanistan`s population, particularly residents of informal settlements, are facing a severe crisis in access to clean water...

In a message posted on X on Sunday, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) expressed hope that girls in Afghanistan will also be allowed to receive an education...

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday approved a landmark resolution establishing an independent mechanism to investigate serious human rights violations in Afghanistan, including those committed under Taliban rule...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 17, 2024...

Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations Iran’s UN envoy has defended the country’s recent anti-terror operations targeting the facilities belonging to Takfiri terrorists in Syria and Israel-linked anti-Iranian terror groups in Iraq...

The UN Security Council meets about the situation in Gaza, at UN headquarters in New York on December 22, 2023...

Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the United States to lift or waive its sanctions against Iran’s oil sector to resume the US-abandoned Iran nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)...

A Sudanese family, who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan’s Darfur region, sits beside their belongings while waiting to be registered by UNHCR upon crossing the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad, July 26, 2023...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R) and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (Photo by Iran’s Foreign Ministry) United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has denounced as catastrophic the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, underlining the need for an urgent ceasefire and de-escalation of tensions in the besieged territory...

A Palestinian boy reacts at the damages caused by an Israeli airstrike at a UN-run school sheltering displaced people, in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 2, 2023...

A woman carries a child after fleeing the site of an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on October 29, 2023...

Palestinians search for casualties at the site of Israeli raids on houses, in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip (Photo by Reuters) A group of United Nations experts have warned time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, expressing their deep frustration with Israel’s refusal to halt plans to decimate the besieged Gaza Strip...

File photo shows the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on Gaza...

Palestinian children injured in Israeli air raids are being treated at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 24, 2023...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres In a joint letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, prominent activists, politicians, academic and religious figures from around the world have demanded the world body’s swift intervention to bring about an end to Israel’s bloodbath in the besieged Gaza Strip...

A Palestinian woman who fled her home amid Israeli strikes shelters with her family in a nursery school in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 10, 2023...

Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations Iran’s UN ambassador has said the Israeli regime’s recurrent violence against Syria serves as a smokescreen for Tel Aviv’s daily aggression targeting the Palestinians...

Naseer Ahmed Faiq, the representative of Afghanistan in the United Nations addressed to the representative of Pakistan: I am the representative of Afghanistan and I am talking about the grief of the Afghan people who are suffering from the intervention of countries that are playing a double game today...

UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Marta Hurtado The United Nations has rebuked France for banning the country’s athletes from wearing headscarves during the 2024 Paris Games...

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 23, 2023...

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, on September 23, 2023...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi talks to CNN on the sidelines of his visit to New York for the UN General Assembly in September 2023...

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi holds up the holy book of the Quran as he addresses the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, September 19, 2023...

The letter sent by the former Afghan foreign minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar to the permanent mission of the UN was denied, said the Chargé d’affaires of the Afghan mission to the United Nations...

The Indian embassy in the Italian capital Rome said that the Indian government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations World Food Program based on which the both will distribute food grains inside Afghanistan...

People hold Serbian and Republika Srpska flags during a parade to mark the autonomous Serb Republic’s national holiday, in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on January 9, 2022...

Sudanese protesters walk past burning tires as they rally to protest against the October 2021 military coup, in the capital Khartoum, on January 9, 2022...

Volker Perthes, the UN Special Representative for Sudan and Head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the African country The United Nations says it plans to invite military leaders, political parties, and other groups in Sudan to participate in a political process aimed at resolving a crisis unfolded by a military coup in October, as security forces keep on mounting a deadly crackdown on anti-coup protests across the African country...

Taliban reacted to the decision of the United Nations over allowing Naseer Ahmad Faiq to assume the seat of Afghanistan’s permanent representative at the UNGA and said the UN must not further deteriorate the issue...

United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nashif reads documents prior to an extraordinary meeting on Ethiopia at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council in Geneva, on December 17, 2021...

The United Nations Human Rights Council welcomed the Islamic Emirate’s decree on women’s rights issued on Dec...

The UN General Assembly on Monday adopted a resolution to delay a decision on who will represent Afghanistan and Myanmar at the world body...

United Nations General Assembly confirmed that the former permanent representatives of Afghanistan, Venezuela, and Myanmar will hold their seats and will continue their jobs as in the 193-member world body...

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman Saudi Arabia uses terrorism-related offences as means of quashing the dissent and the systematic arbitrary detention and torture of those suspected of committing the so-called offences, a rights group warns...

This picture shows outgoing UN special envoy for Libya Jan Kubis (L) with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita during a visit by the Slovak to Morocco’s capital city, Rabat, on September 13, 2021...

The United Nations on Monday pushed for urgent action to prop up Afghanistan’s banks, warning that a spike in people unable to repay loans, lower deposits and a cash liquidity crunch could cause the financial system to collapse within months...

Urgent steps must be taken to address the looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and stave off economic collapse, speakers at Wednesday’s UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan said...

This picture taken on November 11, 2021 shows United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaking during a plenary session at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland...

This file picture shows Saudi Princess Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, the United States, on April 12, 2017...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres The United Nations secretary general says Iran will lose its voting rights in the 193-member General Assembly due to the failure to pay its dues to the UN operating body...

Dressed in white, Colombians march against roadblocks in Bogota, on May 30, 2021...

A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel checks a car carrying United Nations (UN) Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan officials as they cross to Pakistan at the India-Pakistan Attari-Wagah border post on November 4, 2020...

A boy walks past the site of a car bomb attack near a security checkpoint in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, not far from the presidential palace, on March 7, 2019...

The United Nations food agency, the World Food Program (WFP), won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger and improve conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas...

File photo shows the entrance to Iran’s Foreign Ministry building in the capital Tehran...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo puts on a face mask after a press conference at the State Department in Washington, DC, on September 16, 2020...

File photo taken on August 13, 2020 shows US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaking during a press conference with Slovenian Prime Minister (unseen) after their meeting in Bled, in the foothills of the Julian Alps...