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A new report by the U.N. human rights office warns that artificial intelligence has the potential to facilitate "unprecedented level of surveillance across the globe by state and private actors."

Antonio Guterres, who has served as United Nations high commissioner for refugees since 2005, will step down at the end of this year. Steve Inskeep talks to him about Syria and Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II.

Antonio Guterres laid out a sobering view of the current state of the world Tuesday, saying, "A wind of madness is sweeping the globe" as instability erupts into violence.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield about the fighting around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and the next steps in order to try to secure the plant.

Speeches by high-level representatives were an attempt to keep momentum going as the world moves toward a key summit in Paris this year, which may produce an agreement to control greenhouse gases.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told women to "get cross" if they see gender inequality. The male-female ratio at the Paris Climate Conference makes our writers very "cross."

United Nations weapons inspectors wrap up their first week of inspections. They visited a nuclear power facility and a site that once produced chemical and biological agents. NPR's Kate Seelye reports.

Fears of a global food crisis are growing because of the shock of the war in Ukraine, climate change and rising inflation.

Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on Myanmar, spoke of civilians being detained, interrogated and dying in the custody of Myanmar's military.

NPR's Michel Martin asks Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, about his country's new plan for humanitarian aid in Gaza, which the UN has rejected.