The United Nations on Tuesday cancelled all in-person meetings for this week after a U.N. member nation reported five cases of COVID-19 among its staff.

As of Friday, the treaty had 49 signatories, and the United Nations said the 50th ratification from Honduras had been received.

The bill aims to ban so-called conversion therapy, which involves forcing a person into therapy against their will.

The president of the International Crisis Group and the United Nations ambassadors for Germany and Britain brought up Kovrig's case at a U.N. Security Council meeting.

A former United Nations employee who lives in Lethbridge is pleased to hear that this year's Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to the UN's World Food Programme.

Grace Forrest, co-founder of the Walk Free anti-slavery organization, said Friday that means one in every 130 women and girls is living in modern slavery today, more than the population of Australia.

Among the countries that backed the statement were half a dozen that face sanctions by the United States, European Union or other Western nations including Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Russia, Syria and Venezuela.

Two months after Canada lost the election to the United Nations Security Council, the country's new ambassador was there anyway, speaking frankly about the Syrian civil war. He wasn't making many new friends.

Addressing the U.N. General Assembly, the country's ambassador said the "anti-epidemic situation in our country is now under safe and stable control" as a result of measures taken to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will commit an additional $400 million in development and humanitarian spending to combat COVID-19.