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A crackdown in the Chinese region of Xinjiang (sheen-jang) may constitute crimes against humanity. That's according to a long-delayed United Nations human rights report.

A new database from U.N. Women and UNDP looks at how 206 countries and territories are responding to women's needs during the pandemic. And the results are mixed.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Colum Lynch, senior global reporter for Devex, about the General Assembly. Only one leader of the five permanent members of the Security Council showed up: President Biden.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is hosting a climate summit on Wednesday, but President Joe Biden does not plan to attend.

The temporary ceasefire in Gaza is in its sixth day, as negotiations to further extend the pause in fighting continue.

The U.N. says Europe and the West need to change immigration policies to prevent more disaster. Renee Montagne talks to Francois Crepeau, the U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants.

As monuments come down around the U.S., a group in Louisville, Ky., is putting one up. An artist-run nonprofit is planning a memorial dedicated to Black people whose names have been lost to history.

Foreign policy journalist Laura Rozen gives NPR's Scott Simon her assessment of the state of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.

World leaders expressed outrage over reports of dead Ukrainian civilians — many of whom appear to have been executed — strewn about in Bucha, a city northwest of Kyiv.

Instead of looking back to an age of empire, Russia should accept Ukraine's borders and move on, Kenya's ambassador told a session of the U.N. Security Council.