A top U.N. torture expert and the director of the Committee to Project Journalists say that the human rights landscape is worsening globally.
President Trump threatens to cut foreign aid to Honduras if the country doesn't stop 2,000 migrants from heading northward toward the US.
The U.N. and other humanitarian agencies say peace in Yemen is the only way to avert potentially millions of deaths from hunger.
Eritrea joins an unsavory slate of rights-abusing nations in winning three-year membership to the UN Human Rights Council.
The State of Washington and the Asian nation of Malaysia move to end the death penalty, joining 19 states and 105 countries in doing so.
A new UN report says the world may be just 12 years away from triggering the severe and irreversible effects of climate change.
A new blockchain application rolled in Jordan’s refugee camps is making U.N. aid more efficient and empowering female refugees in the process.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo returns from North Korea and says Kim Jong Un is open to inspectors visiting one of the country's nuclear test sites.
Congolese physician Denis Mukwege and Yazidi sexual violence activist Nadia Murad win the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
Thousands continue to await humanitarian aid six days after a major earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia's Sulawesi Island.
New data from the Pew Research Center shows a world receptive to American leadership, even as Chinese power grows.
What the Republic of Macedonia chooses to call itself has major implications for geopolitics and the success of diplomacy in the post-Cold War period.
China's speech to the U.N. offers a master class on how to talk the language of multilateralism while still defending national interests.
Russia and China tell the U.S. that North Korea deserves more rewards, not more punishment, for recent steps toward denuclearization.
Are China's attempts to punish red states as a part of a broader trade war 'election meddling,' or just savvy trade policy?
President Trump used his yearly U.N. speech to tell heads of states that if they keep out of America’s business, they can expect America to do the same.
129 countries back a new US "Call to Action" to end the global drug crisis. Critics say it's little more than a rehashing of failed prohibitionist policies.
An Australian human rights group says the country's punitive refugee relocation policies are driving detained children to suicide.
Kim Jong-Un hosts his South Korean counterpart in Pyongyang as China and Russia lose confidence in America's 'maximum pressure' strategy.
Nikki Haley said Russian greed is driving the country to open up lines of trade with the North Korean regime before important denuclearization milestones have been reached.
President Trump hasn't just slashed the numbers of refugees admitted into the U.S. each year, he's reportedly celebrating bureaucratic hurdles that reduce admissions even further.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker delivers his final "State of the EU" speech, reminding EU states that traditional allies aren't interested in helping solve the continent's problems.
A new report by The Guardian uncovers more than 100 instances in which Russian social media trolls were quoted by major international news outlets.
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats gained support in weekend elections, but new research ties their rise to to the great recession and income inequality, not a migrant influx.
Chinese officials all read from the same playbook in describing the country's investment in Africa. But the country's promised 'noninterference' is little more than PR spin.