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Host Liane Hansen continues her onversation with Sadako Ogata (sah-DA-koh oh-GAH-tah), the United Nations High ommissioner for Refugees. This week they focus their discussion on the recent eturn of more than 1,000 Rwandan refugees. They also consider other current esponsibilites of the UNHCR, which provides assistance for the world's 27 illion refugees.

The government has denied the massacre ever happened. Now, the U.N. is asking for an investigation.

Rajendra K. Pachauri's departure from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a big embarrassment for the group, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former Vice President Al Gore.

The population growth is being driven by high birth rates in developing nations as well as higher life expectancy worldwide.

Seoul sent special envoys, including a spy chief and a top security official, in a first reported meeting between South Korean officials and North Korea's leader since he took power in 2011.

Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said there had been a "stabilization and even decline of cases of pedophilia."

The United Nations is seeking $4.4 billion — a record amount — to help Afghanistan. The appeal comes as countries around the world try to deal with skyrocketing prices due to the war in Ukraine.

Melissa Block talks with Shashi Tharoor, United Nations under-secretary general, about Tuesday's bomb blast in Baghdad that killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the U.N. special representative to Iraq.

The large cache of more than 500 documents posted online anonymously last week details one Chinese tech company's hacking operations, target lists and marketing materials for the Chinese government.

President Bush appeals directly to Muslims to assure them that the United States is not waging war with Islam. Denouncing extremists, he lays out a vision for peace in the Middle East before skeptical world leaders at the United Nations.