The role of the United Nations in climate change is to coordinate treaties, negotiations, reporting, science and finance—not govern national climate policy.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit moved from India’s freedom struggle to global diplomacy, becoming the first woman president of the UN General Assembly.
Human rights protect dignity, freedom and equality while limiting how governments, institutions and other powerful actors may treat people.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out 30 global rights in 1948 and became the foundation for modern international human-rights law.
