The Assembly again affirmed Palestinian rights and called for a just solution. The USSR supported Palestinian self-determination diplomatically, within a wider arena where Palestinian organizations...
Emergency Special Session Resolution ES-6/2 deplored the armed intervention and demanded the immediate, unconditional, and total withdrawal of foreign troops. The vote made Afghan sovereignty a...
At the UN, Gorbachev announced large troop and tank reductions and a shift away from military intervention in Eastern Europe. The plan altered the external balance while leaving the political...
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin had campaigned to name and prohibit...
The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 60/7, designating January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day and urging education about the Holocaust to help prevent future genocide. The...
On 25 March 2026, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 80/250, declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans the gravest crime against...
The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 2145, terminating South Africa’s mandate over South West Africa (later Namibia) and placing the territory under UN responsibility. South Africa rejected...
