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It sounds like science fiction, but it's a very real and contentious debate that is making its way through the U.N. Advocates of a ban want all military weapons to be under "meaningful human control."

Sanctions have been imposed on North Korea to little affect. Rachel Martin talks to Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, who believes the Trump administration and China need to do more.

NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power about her recent trip to South Sudan.

China is taking a more confident and active role in the international human rights system, even as the United States pulls back, writes Ted Piccone of the Brookings Institution.

The breakdown in talks between President Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, writes Gary Samore, an experienced negotiator with North Korea.

David Greene talks to Joel Wit, a former State Department official with experience dealing with North Korea, about this month's scheduled summit in Vietnam between the U.S. and North Korea.

On Wednesday, world leaders made history by holding the first-ever high level meeting at the U.N. General Assembly focused on tuberculosis, which kills more people each year than HIV.

Jasmila Zbanic's Oscar-nominated film dramatizes the genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995. Aida is a former teacher working as a translator for U.N. forces.

The flood of arrivals is visible in Warsaw, where the central train station has been transformed, with information booths and volunteer translators. About 1.8 million have arrived in Poland.

North Korea on Saturday test-fired two short-range ballistic missiles, its neighbors said, prompting quick, strong condemnation from its rivals.