Stories from the UN Archive
Standing on the eastern shore of Manhattan Island, on the banks of New York City’s East River, the 18-acre United Nations Headquarters remains both a symbol of peace...
In 2015, His Holiness Pope Francis paid an historic visit to the United Nations, calling the world body, “necessary,” saying it could be improved, and maintaining...
Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka delivered an address in 1993 to the World Conference on Human Rights as a ‘special guest’ of the UN Secretary-General....
Youth activist Severn Cullis-Suzuki’s speech at the 1992 Earth Summit resonates today as the world grapples with our climate challenge at...
“Events of these last years have made the world painfully aware that the Palestinian people and the recognition and implementation of their rights are the key to any...
Writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer Gloria Steinem denounces violence against women in a speech at UN Headquarters.
Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn was a tireless advocate for children’s rights.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rose from the ashes of the Second World War with the founding of the United Nations.
General Assembly requests that delegates limit their addresses to 15 minutes. On 26 September 1960, Fidel Castro of Cuba remained on the rostrum...
In the summer of 1945, leaders from 50 countries gathered in San Francisco to agree upon an international treaty to enshrine the equal rights of all people and...
Primatologist and environmentalist Jane Goodall was designated a UN Messenger of Peace by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 10 April 2002.
On 17th September, 1948, Count Folke Bernadotte, a United Nations Mediator for Palestine, was murdered in Jerusalem by a Zionist militant organization.
Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev was rumoured to have banged his shoe on his delegation’s desk during a UN General Assembly meeting on 12 October 1960.
In 1953, the United Nations elected India’s Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as the 8th President of the General Assembly, the first woman elected to the role.
convened the First Session of the General Assembly on 10 January 1946 in London, England.
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