Prime Minister Shinzo Abe isn't just offering $30 billion to African countries, he wants something in return. He wants their votes in support of Japan becoming a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and greater access for Japanese trade and investment in Africa. The ...
The U.N. General Assembly decided Wednesday to continue negotiations on Security Council reform at the next session, eyeing a possibly enlarged body with a membership "in the mid-20s." Debate has raged for decades over how to restructure the council, which currently comprises five permanent veto-wielding ...
Recent recommendations issued to Japan by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women sparked a sharp response from Tokyo. The U.N. body touched on several politically sensitive issues, including that of the so-called "comfort women" forced to serve troops during World ...
A U.N. Security Council vote on the toughest sanctions on North Korea in two decades was postponed until Wednesday morning at Russia's request, the United States and France said Tuesday. The U.S. and North Korea's traditional ally China spent seven weeks negotiating the new sanctions ...
North Korea's foreign minister is demanding that the U.N. secretary-general tell member states that a resolution targeting the country's bleak human rights record is illegal and based on lies. The letter from Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong, obtained by The Associated Press, says North Korea ...
A campaign within the United Nations to haul North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before an international court for crimes against humanity has touched off a defensive fury in Pyongyang, where it is being treated like a diplomatic declaration of war — an aggressive ...
North Korean officials are seeking to have key lines deleted from a draft U.N. resolution that calls for a referral of Pyongyang's human rights abuses to the International Criminal Court and proposes sanctions against the country's top leaders, according to a U.N. investigator. Marzuki Darusman, ...
Along with the enormous risks global warming poses for humanity are opportunities to improve public health and build a better world, scientists at a climate change conference in Yokohama said Tuesday. About 500 scientists and government representatives from 100 countries meeting in the port city ...
People in coastal regions of Asia, particularly those living in cities, could face some of the worst effects of global warming, climate experts will warn this week. Hundreds of millions of people are likely to lose their homes as flooding, famine and rising sea levels ...
The U.N. agency for promoting gender equality has announced it will close its office in Osaka Prefecture by the end of October, citing a lack of funds. Having failed to achieve its funding goals due to financial instability in 2011 and 2012, the U.N. Entity ...
A few days ago, a little-known Swedish scientist with a career devoted to studying lethal warfare agents paid a quiet visit to London. He was there to examine evidence that British officials believe shows that Syrian forces used chemical weapons against their own people. Ake ...
