The Department serves as the Secretariat of the United Nations Conferences on Financing for Development and many of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council. DESA supported ...

Ambassador Bob Rae is President of the 2025 session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations. 31 January 2025 There is ...

Human Rights Watch Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Review of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland 77th Session, February 2025 ...

The United Nations has a PR problem in the ... offering potential for both social impact and economic prosperity. These diverse prospects can simultaneously address human needs while generating ...

Global economic growth is projected to remain at 2.8% in 2025, unchanged from 2024, held back by the top two economies, the U.S. and China, according to a United Nations report released on Thursday.

Here are the key functions of the United Nations, including maintaining peace, promoting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, and fostering sustainable development.

The bloc's official goals include creating a new currency system and reforming the United Nations. In 2020, the GDP of BRICS countries surpassed the economic growth of the G7 nations. The BRICS ...

The U.N. chief ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world's thirst for fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein monster" that spares no one, while calling for greater attention to risks ...