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The Trump administration's crippling policies are forcing poor Americans deeper into poverty, a United Nations human rights investigator has found.

A group of Florida students who survived a mass shooting at their high school in February said they will spend their summer on a 75-stop bus tour rallying for stricter gun control laws.

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a joint publication aimed at assisting policymakers in addressing anti-Semitism through education, at a launch event at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, on June 4.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “real progress” had been made in negotiations Thursday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s top deputy in New York toward holding a potential summit between Kim and President Donald Trump.

Secretary-General António Guterres (center) addresses the General Assembly on the repositioning of the UN Development System. To his left is Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and at right is General Assemlby President Miroslav Lajčák.

More than 120,000 people are trapped inside the eastern Libyan city of Derna by heavy fighting between Islamists and forces commanded by General Khalifa Haftar.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNDP, the UN Development Programme, on May 31, agreed in Nay Pyi Taw with the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar on the text for the tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). It is planned that the MoU will be signed in the course of the next week, the exact date of which is still to be confirmed.

Nine people were hurt, including two children, when Croatian border police fired at a van full of illegal migrants that refused to stop.

The Pfizer Foundation, on May 30, announced a new $5 million grant commitment to initiatives in low- and middle-income countries that provide family planning access and education for women and men at the same time children are routinely vaccinated.

The Central African Republic is and remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world for humanitarian operations. Acts of violence and looting of humanitarian organizations as well aggressions against humanitarian workers have systematically taken place during the latest waves of violence affecting parts of the country. During May 2018, nine premises of humanitarian organizations have been looted, as well as the National Refugee Commission (CNR) in Bambari town alone.