Since 1993, hundreds of Mexican women have gone missing in the border town of Ciudad Juárez, in murders that have gone unsolved and largely ignored by the municipal government. But a new report from Al-Jazeera says that the Juárez murders are just one part of a worsening pattern of violence against women in Mexico,… » 1/05/15 11:10am 1/05/15 11:10am

The United Nations has been trying for weeks to investigate reports that Sudanese soldiers raped over 200 women and girls in late October in the village of Tabit, North Darfur. A leaked internal UN report says the Sudanese military is deliberately making it hard for its peacekeepers to investigate the claims,… » 12/10/14 1:10pm 12/10/14 1:10pm

If you need yet another reality check on the very real climate changes issues we face, watch this video of Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner's wonderful presentation to the United Nations. » 9/23/14 6:15pm 9/23/14 6:15pm

According to the United Nations, the radical Sunni Islamist group ISIS currently attempting to take over Iraq and Syria has demanded that those women and girls living in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul be genitally mutilated. » 7/24/14 10:00am 7/24/14 10:00am

As fighting in Syria goes on, a 30-country delegation opened peace talks yesterday with a "testy exchange." But a group of Syrian women have come together to demand an end to their country's civil war, and a place in negotiations to implement peace there. » 1/23/14 10:40am 1/23/14 10:40am

A massive new UN survey has found that in some parts of Asia, more than half of the men admit to forcing a woman to have sex. Throughout the countries involved in the research, one in four men admitted to rape. Congratulations, UN Rape Survey. You found a thing to make even 9/11 seem worse. » 9/11/13 2:15pm 9/11/13 2:15pm

Provoked by the four-year-long lawsuit between Rina Bovrisse and her former employer, Prada Japan, the United Nations is backing Bovrisse and pushing Japan to introduce legislation to make sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace illegal. » 5/25/13 12:30pm 5/25/13 12:30pm

On the eve of "Swarmageddon," the name given to a cicada awakening 17 years in the making, the United Nations has released a report that highly recommends eating insects as a part of a healthy and balanced diet. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that many of the 1,900 species of insects that… » 5/13/13 5:00pm 5/13/13 5:00pm

If you think the concept of International Women's Day is cheesy/problematic/[insert gripe here], you'll probably think "One Woman: A song for UN Women," described in a press release as "a musical celebration of women worldwide, featuring 25 artists from 20 countries across the globe" is corny, too. » 3/08/13 9:30am 3/08/13 9:30am

Birds do it. Bees do it. Secretaries of State hearing UN pleas do it. Yesterday, a photographer caught Hillary Clinton aimlessly drawing on her speech notes during a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East peace process. The situation is grim, shooting, suffering etc., but all of that starts to run together… » 9/28/12 12:45pm 9/28/12 12:45pm

Somewhere there is a drug dealer who is really pissed that 30 pounds of his choice coke has gone missing. But if he wanted it so badly, he shouldn't have mailed it to the United Nations. The cocaine was sent inside fake diplomatic pouches, and ended up in the UN's mailroom last week. People there immediately… » 1/27/12 4:15pm 1/27/12 4:15pm

Sometime within the last day or so, it's estimated that the world's 7 billionth child was born. This child, like all children, was gestated in the body of a woman and like most children, is likely to be fed, bathed, and raised primarily by a woman. Whether the world that the child inhabits as he or she grows up is one… » 10/31/11 5:30pm 10/31/11 5:30pm

The new UN agency for women has released a report on the progress of women worldwide. Despite the optimism implied by "progress," spoiler alert — it's all pretty terrible. But there are charts! » 7/06/11 3:35pm 7/06/11 3:35pm

But the overall percentages of women in the police and judiciary are still pretty pathetic. [UN/pdf] [Official Site]

• George Clooney has teamed up with Google and the United Nations to watch the borders of the Sudan.
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It's not often that there's good news for women's access to health care, but here's some: maternal mortality is down by one third since 1990. What did the trick? » 9/15/10 1:36pm 9/15/10 1:36pm

What does increased foreign presence in post-earthquake Haiti bring? Donated money, aid workers and increased U.N. presence, for sure. Also, Dominican prostitutes hoping to make a living off them. » 8/02/10 2:46pm 8/02/10 2:46pm

[New York, July 6. Queen Elizabeth ll signs the visitors' book before departing the United Nations headquarters. Image via AP] » 7/07/10 9:15am 7/07/10 9:15am

Last Friday, the United Nations general assembly unanimously voted to approve UN Women, an agency that will launch in January of 2011 and focus solely on issues surrounding the women of the world. » 7/04/10 3:55pm 7/04/10 3:55pm