United Nations General Assembly

Permanent Observer for Palestine withdraws candidacy for UN Presidency

Palestine is currently considered a non-member state of the UN and a Permanent Observer with “a standing invitation to participate as Observers in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly.”

RIYAD H. MANSOUR, Palestinian Permanent Observer to the United Nations, shakes hands with Eloy Alfaro de Alba, Permanent Representative of Panama to the UN, before a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, at UN headquarters in New York City, US, February 18, 2026.
Israel and Ecuador flags. Ilustration.

Israel praises Ecuador's 'moral leadership' in withdrawing from UN committee on Palestinian rights

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon.

Netanyahu calls to 'bring peace, prosperity to Israel, region,' at meeting with UN ambassadors

UNITED NATIONS Secretary-General Antonio Guterres smiles while speaking with Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer inside 10 Downing Street in central London, Britain, January 16, 2026.

'We don't always agree with what she says': UN Chief Guterres distances himself from Albanese


Arab League, Egypt praise UNRWA renewal as future in Gaza remains uncertain

While the US halted UNRWA funding, and Israel banned it outright after links with terror groups were disclosed last year, Arab countries celebrate its renewal by the UN General Assembly.

 A torn UNRWA logo is seen among destruction in Rafah, in southern Gaza, January 22, 2025

UNGA votes to extend UNRWA's mandate by three years

UNRWA's Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said he "saluted the overwhelming vote," which "reflects the broad solidarity of people across the world with Palestine Refugees."

UNRWA's mandate renewed by three years in UNGA vote, December 5, 2025.

UNGA calls for Israeli withdrawal from Golan Heights in approved resolution

Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said that the vote proved how the General Assembly was "detached... from reality."

IDF Military Drone Unit train with their drones near the Syrian border, northern Golan Heights, June 26, 2025.

UN deems Western sanctions on Iran, China, North Korea as int'l human rights violations

After establishing the anti-sanctions day, Iran demanded the UN pressure Israel over its "flagrant violations" of international law, accusing the US of "heinous crimes."

Members of the United Nations Security Council vote on a resolution by Russia and China to delay by six months the reimposition of sanctions on Iran during the 80th UN General Assembly in New York City, US, September 26, 2025

Indonesia welcomes UN Security Council's adoption of Trump's Gaza plan, FM says

"Indonesia will always support an independent and sovereign Palestinian nation," says foreign ministry spokesperson Yvonne Mewengkang. German FM says UN Res. to end the Gaza war is "good news."

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, US, September 23, 2025.

WATCH: Canadian-Israeli denied option to put Israel as place of birth in her new passport

According to her video, the employee told her that the new Canadian policy was to write Palestine under certain Israeli cities in place of birth, after the recognition of Palestine by Mark Carney.

A Canadian passport with approved stamp (illustrative)

50 years since UN resolution, the world proves anti-Zionism is actually racism - opinion

Fifty years after the UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 declared "Zionism is a form of racism," the sentiment is still being echoed harmfully worldwide.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Chaim Herzog lambasts the Assembly after the adoption of Resolution 2279, stating that "Zionism is a form of racism," November 10, 1975.

Fifty years since ‘Zionism is Racism,' UN antisemitism continues - opinion

It struck a blow at the moral credibility of the UN itself, devalued the accusation of racism, and gave ideological cover to a new wave of antisemitism masquerading as anti-imperialism. 

 The flag alley at the United Nations European headquarters is seen during the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2023.

US sends Gaza stabilization force resolution to UN Security Council members

The draft has been sent to several United Nations Security Council members and seeks to establish a two-year mandate for the force, aiming for international troops to enter Gaza by January 2026.

A yellow concrete block placed by the Israeli army is seen along the Yellow Line in the northern Gaza Strip, November 2, 2025

Iran says it won't return to talks as long as US makes 'unreasonable demands'

Tehran and Washington engaged in five rounds of indirect nuclear negotiations that ended with the 12-day war in June, in which Israel and the US bombed Iranian nuclear sites.

 L to R: Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump against backdrop of respective flags and missile strikes.