Beyoncé joins UN's global humanitarian campaign
NEW YORK (AP) - Beyonce is teaming with the United Nations and humanitarian aid organizations on a global campaign to encourage people around the world to get involved...
Hunt for Kony lacks funding, troops and equipment
The head of a planned African Union force to hunt warlord Joseph Kony said on Wednesday that he can't start his task because he doesn't have troops, equipment or the necessary funding.
Scientists are trying figure out how cholera got to Haiti
Many had thought that United Nations peacekeeping soldiers brought cholera to earthquake ravaged Haiti in October 2010...
Mogadishu is losing 'Most Dangerous City' label
MOGADISU, Somalia (AP) - Mogadishu is losing a label it never wanted in the first place: The World's Most Dangerous City...
7 siblings graduate school together
VIDEO - They look like a gathering of the United Nations, but you can just call them the Seitz Senior seven...
Canada quits UN group over Mugabe pick
theGrio REPORT -- Canada has chosen to formally remove itself from The UNWTO (United Nation World Tourism Body)...
UN: 18 million in West Africa to go hungry in 2012
GENEVA (AP) - U.N. officials say they expect 18 million people in West Africa will go hungry this year, including three million young children whose lives or health will be at risk...
NAACP to take voter ID laws to the UN
The NAACP hopes that international pressure will help to reverse legislation in 31 U.S. states that has changed access to voting...
Dikembe Mutombo caught up in $10 million gold scam
According to a U.N. report, Mutombo was in New York on a more personal cause -- trying to interest a Houston oil executive in a $10 million deal to buy 1,045 pounds of gold from the mines of eastern Congo, the heart of the conflict mineral trade...
Few major Haiti reconstruction projects have begun
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The billions of dollars in aid that flowed into Haiti after its shattering earthquake were meant to build a new nation with thriving farms...
