September 18, 2006
Darfur Talks Open U.N. General Assembly Meeting
International leaders met in New York Monday for the 61st annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. Chief among the topics to be discussed was the ongoing crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people are estimated to have died since 2003 in violence and a resulting humanitarian crisis. Timothy Wirth of the United Nations Foundation and Republican Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota join Jim Lehrer to discuss Darfur and a variety of other issues facing the troubled world body.

March 15, 2006
U.N. Approves Human Rights Council Against U.S. Wishes
Members of the U.N. General Assembly ignored U.S. opposition and voted overwhelmingly to establish a Human Rights Council that will have higher status and greater accountability than the existing Human Rights Commission, a body highly criticized for its failure to stop human rights offenses and for admitting rights abusers.