United Nations News

The U.N. Human Rights Council last week appointed China to its Consultative Group in spite of Beijing’s deplorable record on human rights. The five-member body interviews applicants for roles as independent United Nations experts of the Human Rights Council and makes recommendations to the president of the council. As noted by U.N. Watch, that means…

The depraved totalitarians, nefarious barbarians, two-bit gangsters, odious scoundrels, and bigoted scum who run the United Nations recently set up a new “database” to help anti-Semites around the world target Jewish businesses in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria—businesses that not only offer economic opportunities for Palestinians but opportunities that pay higher than most…

The Trump administration is continuing its curious fixation with rejoining a United Nations “tourism” agency, amid numerous reasons why the move wouldn’t help the U.S. diplomatically or economically. The State Department’s summary of its budget request for fiscal year 2021, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, contains a bullet point that reads: Engagement with…

We are now knee-deep in the throes of the constitutionally directed authority of the U.S. House of Representatives, the people’s chamber, to call into question the behavior of the most well known sitting public official, the president of the United States. In the history of our great republic, the House has completely executed this power…

Trump administration officials are traveling this week to Madrid to meet with leadership from the U.N. World Tourism Organization to continue to negotiate the terms of the U.S. rejoining it. The Trump administration’s seeming infatuation with the World Tourism Organization is baffling for a number of reasons. Here are six. 1. The organization offers very…

Those hoping for fireworks up in Turtle Bay for President Donald Trump were disappointed Tuesday morning. No references to Rocket Man. Instead, Trump’s third address to the United Nations was shockingly traditional in tone and presentation. Although the speech, as is the president’s tendency, touted the administration’s economic accomplishments up front, it quickly shifted focus…

Turtle Bay is awash with heads of state this week. They’ve come to New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are among those in attendance, and they come with an agenda of their own. Item 1 for the Americans is to remind world leaders—in…

Chinese influence is on the rise within the United Nations system. Qu Dongyu became director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization this month, raising the number of Chinese nationals leading a U.N. specialized agency to four. This trend is concerning, because China is not a benign force internationally. It is seeking to shift the values, programs, and policies of the U.N. in…

On Friday, at the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, President Donald Trump announced that he was un-signing the Arms Trade Treaty. As he put it, “The United Nations will soon receive a formal notice that America is rejecting this treaty.” He then pulled out a pen and, in front of the entire audience,…

When thousands of delegates and activists from around the world gathered recently in New York for the United Nations’ 63rd Commission on the Status of Women, the ostensible purpose of the 12-day gathering was to discuss the priority theme of access to social protection systems and to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality,…

The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women is being pressured to embrace “gender identity” ideology at its annual meeting this week. If successful, the move could erase women from international law and economic development. Gender identity refers to an individual’s perception of themselves as male, female, both, neither, or something in between. Historically,…

Turkey recently became the latest in a slew of countries to adopt mandatory plain packaging rules for cigarettes. This tobacco control measure bans the use of brands or logos on cigarette cartons to supposedly reduce their attractiveness, in an attempt to deter smoking. The United Nations World Health Organization has backed this move, but such…

On Dec. 10-11 in Morocco, most of the world’s nations will sign on to the United Nations’ Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The U.S. will not be signing the migration compact—and that’s the correct decision from public policy, national security, and national sovereignty standpoints. The migration compact was initiated when the U.N….

The United Nations is not friendly ground for the United States. Last year, less than one-third of the votes taken in the U.N. General Assembly supported the U.S. position. Think that’s because of the Trump administration’s “assault on multilateralism”? Think again. Since 1980, the General Assembly on average has backed the U.S. in only 35 percent of…