Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has been appointed for another term as head of the UNDP.

Tauranga lawyer Belinda Pidwell will never forget a Bosnian man tell how he and his family were lined up and shot.

New Zealand has joined a United Nations initiative pledge to take action to end violence against women and girls.

Editorial: British foreign secretaries have not been frequent visitors to New Zealand. When the relationship was so close that New Zealanders referred to the "mother country", they probably did not feel the need to visit.

A peacekeeper serving with the joint U.N.-African Union force in Darfur opened fire on fellow peacekeepers, killing four and injuring one, the United Nations said.

North Korea said it will launch a long-range rocket in mid-December, a provocative move just eight months after a failed attempt violated a United Nations ban.

Over 100 journalists have been killed so far this year - the highest number since the International Press Institute (IPI) began keeping count of journalists' deaths in 1997.

The Government's decision last week not to sign up to the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol has left NZ's credibility on climate policy in tatters on the global stage, writes Patrick Hardstaff.

The United States was yesterday re-elected to another three-year term on the UN Human Rights Council.

Speculation is rife about the changing of the guard at the 18th Communist Party Congress and what a new leadership will mean for China and the world.

A New Zealand man who had worked as a top United Nations environmental lawyer has died after a fall from a balcony in Germany.

In their unwillingness to face the reality of changing demographics, US Republicans are behaving like King Canute.