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As U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demands a global end to violence against women, a 35-year-old is molested and shot in front of her husband and five children in India's northeast.

A U.N. report says some equipment of interest is missing from a former missile plant in Iraq. Meanwhile, the Bush administration dispatches senior envoys to key foreign capitals, seeking to bolster support for possible military action against Iraq. Hear Rajiv Chandrasekaran of The Washington Post and NPR's Michele Kelemen.

The U.N. envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, quit in frustration over the difficulties of bringing an end to the civil war and the failure of the United Nations to intervene.

De Mistura told the U.N. Security Council he was leaving for "purely personal reasons." In his final month, he plans to make a major push to try to lay the groundwork for a new constitution in Syria.

July 25 marks the first-ever U.N. World Drowning Prevention Day. It raises awareness for the hundreds of thousands of people who die from drowning each year.

The proposal failed to get the necessary nine votes to pass. The Palestinian plan called for, among other things, an end to the Israeli occupation by late 2017.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield about the clash over the issue of Ukraine between the U.S. and Russia at Monday's Security Council meeting.

The 80th United Nations General Assembly continues on Friday in New York.

U.S. prosecutors say John Ashe accepted more than $1 million in bribes in exchange for support of investment contracts.

The U.N. has been desperately trying to make the Global Goals "famous" since 2015. Then a surprise tweet from the rapper came along.