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The pace of the exodus is escalating, as Venezuela suffers from political chaos, food shortages and hyperinflation. The U.N. says 1 million people have left just since November 2018.

Thirty artists release songs with nature sounds to generate royalties for nature conservation in second annual United Nations Earth Day mixtape.

The United Nations International Court of Justice is hearing a genocide case for the first time in more than a decade. The case is focused on the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

The directors of the major intelligence agencies made their annual appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee to present their global threat assessment on Tuesday.

By a 128-9 vote Thursday, the General Assembly rejected a U.S. decree that recognized the disputed city as Israel's capital. "The United States will remember this day," Ambassador Nikki Haley warned.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

Samantha Power said the resolution imposes a "pretty distinct form of accountability," in that it strips Syria of its chemical weapons. In the case of non-compliance, she said, the U.S. would have the "the force of global opinion on our side."

A United Nations human rights investigator points to "growing reports and photographic evidence" that security forces have used live ammunition against anti-junta protesters.

The United Nations kicked off a conference on the status of a 50-year treaty on nuclear nonproliferation — as crises fester in the Middle East, the Korean peninsula and Ukraine.

Robert Siegel talks to Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, about the abuses in Syria and Northern Iraq.