United Nations

Should the US Withdraw from UNESCO?

February 19, 2025

Brett D. Schaefer, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, weighs the benefits and drawbacks of the United States' membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO").
U.S. Calls for Elimination of Transgender and DEI Ideology at UNICEF

February 10, 2025

The U.S. Representative to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund ("UNICEF") calls for amendments that would eliminate transgender and DEI programming, saying "these country program documents contain terms and concepts that promote immoral discrimination and advance harmful gender ideology in defiance of biological reality, both of which conflict with U.S. policies."
Trump Rescinds U.S. Pledges for UN Climate Fund

February 06, 2025

In an unprecedented move, President Trump has cancelled $4 billion worth of United States pledges made under the Biden administration to the United Nation's Green Climate Fund.
Trump Plans to Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council

February 04, 2025

As he did during his first term, sources say that President Trump will sign an exective order withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council. This order will coincide with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House.
UN Secretary-General Calls for Global Solutions to Global Problems

January 29, 2025

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, highlights what he believes to be the most pressing global problems of today, and calls for greater global governance solutions.
UN Secretary General Calls for Fossil Fuel Advertising Ban

June 11, 2024

In an effort to double-down on global warming, the UN Secretary General calls for a ban on advertising by fossil fuel companies.
UN Human Rights Experts Tour U.S. Focusing on Racial Justice

April 26, 2023

Experts from an independent panel appointed by the UN human rights council, the Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement, began a two-week visit to the US that will focus on racial justice, law enforcement and policing.
UN Chief António Guterres Demands U.S. and EU Set New Targets

March 21, 2023

Following the release of the United Nation’s (UN) new Climate Report, UN Chief António Guterres demanded that the European Union and the United States bring their climate neutrality targets forward to 2040 instead of 2050.
UN Report reveals Russian forces Killed Hundreds of Civilians in Ukraine War

December 14, 2022

A new report from the United Nations human rights office has been released, documenting attacks in dozens of towns and executions by Russian forces that killed at least 441 civilians in the early days of the Ukraine war.
UN Human Rights Chief Türk targets Twitter

November 07, 2022

United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk wrote an open letter to Twitter’s Elon Musk lecturing on the importance of Human Rights following Musk’s firing on a majority of Twitter’s ethical AI team and all of the human rights team.