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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made an impassioned appeal on May 30, 2017 for the world to intensify action to combat climate change and implement the Paris Agreement to limit carbon emissions.

Canada is in talks with the United Nations about donating money to a special trust fund set up for victims of sexual abuse by peacekeepers, a senior UN official revealed on May 24, 2017

Rapes, beatings, and arrests are common at the Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea, nearly 50 per cent of which is owned by the Toronto-based mining giant, Barrick Gold.

"If there is a siege and hundreds of thousands of people don't have water and don't have food, they will be at enormous risk," said U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Iraq Lise Grande.

Hundreds of girls sat quivering with anticipation in their seats at a Toronto high school on a sunny fall morning, Oct. 22, 2014.

The facts behind the Syrian chemical weapons attack must be clearly established so those responsible can be held accountable, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday April 5, 2017.

Canada is hosting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the first time since 2005 in September.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is not ruling out sending troops on a peacekeeping mission this year, even though Canada has not yet told the United Nations what it is up to.

Some of the women haven’t even told their own families about what they experienced at the hands of their persecutors, said associate deputy immigration minister Dawn Edlund.

The United Nations said on Tuesday it is "racing against the clock" to prepare emergency aid for endangered civilians in Mosul with an Iraqi army offensive looming to oust the Islamic State.

Veteran journalist Mohamed Fahmy, once wrongfully imprisoned himself, writes about torture and arbitrary detention in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar.

Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson took centre stage at the UN climate talks

More than 100 Indigenous women are demanding additional compensation from Toronto-based mining giant Barrick Gold after being sexually assaulted at a mine in Papua New Guinea.

A year ago, Indigenous women from across Latin America began collecting stories about how climate change is affecting their lives. They did this to craft solutions that aligned with their values.

Canada has won the support of Serbia in its bid for a temporary seat on the UN Security Council in 2020, even though Canada went to war against it 17 years ago, says the country's foreign minister.