On the last day of the annual UN women’s conference in March, joy was mixed with relief by delegates after grueling negotiations over a summary document. The facilitator for the negotiations, Koki ...

President Vladimir Putin could face a special tribunal for the crime of aggression in Ukraine. But a core group of advocates pushing for creating such a court is divided on what it should look like.

Leadership of UN Missions: Halting Progress on the Road to Gender Parity - PassBlueConcrete action may have helped enlarge a pool of female candidates that had been constrained by institutional ...

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil with President Donald Trump of the United States, March 19, 2019, in the White House. Both men are scheduled to attend the annual opening session of the UN General ...

Amina Mohammed, right, the deputy secretary-general of the UN, signed a partnership agreement with the World Economic Forum, led by Borge Brende, left, to speed up progress on the Sustainable ...

From a Royal Palace to Ivy Halls: A Dissident's View of the Arab Spring - PassBlueOver the years, as he became more outspoken in his advocacy for reform, relations with his family deteriorated. Twenty ...

It Happened at the UN: Week Ending May 23 - PassBlueThe 2025 World Football Day event held in the UN General Assembly Hall, New York City, May 22, 2025, a year after member states approved a ...

Quarantined and Stalked by Covid-19, UN Field Staff Live With Fear and Anxiety - PassBlueKelly Clements, the deputy high commissioner for the UN Refugee Agency and from the United States, calls the ...

In fact, it took an intervention from numerous governments and prominent people, including Margot Wallstrom, a former Swedish foreign minister and the first UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict, to ...

Attacks on Burmese Military Intensify Nationwide, Signaling a Possible Revolt - PassBlueAt the center of attention in the growing revolt in Burma is the real power of the loosely organized guerilla ...

At a clinic at La Fossette Health Center in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, nurses vaccinate babies, among other health care services. The pandemic could further erode Haiti’s stability, experts say, given its ...

Kelly Craft, the US envoy to the UN, arriving in the morning at the General Assembly Hall to cast her country’s secret ballot for various UN elections, June 17, 2020. By the afternoon, the new members ...