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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A scientist extracting the coronavirus genome in a UN lab in Seibersdorf, Austria, May 7, 2020. Testing kits to detect Covid-19 are being sent free by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy ...

Terje Rod-Larsen, a Norwegian diplomat who has been president of the New York-based International Peace Institute since 2005, suddenly resigned on Oct. 29, 2020. A Norwegian newspaper reported ...

A year after Oct. 7, Christopher Lockyear, the secretary-general of Médecins sans Frontières, says about Gaza: “What we’re seeing is a real, acute hypocrisy, with states who have been calling for ...

Trending UN News: Week Ending Nov. 26 - PassBlueSeparately, the UN will be “temporarily relocating all eligible dependents” in Ethiopia “out of an abundance of caution,” given the continuing security ...

On the Campaign Trail for the World's 'Most Impossible' Job - PassBlueDepending on the level of support in a candidate’s government and its willingness to invest resources and diplomatic capital, ...

India and Pakistan, Next-Door Neighbors That Stand Worlds Apart at the UN - PassBluePrime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan, on the screen, speaking virtually on Sept. 24. He gave India, its nemesis, a ...

Weeks After a Cease-Fire Agreement, the Central African Republic Hangs By a Thread - PassBlue“We saw attacks against villages and all the houses burned,” Diarra said. “It’s very dangerous. These ...

Rep. Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, speaking at a US House of Representatives hearing, 2021. In an interview on the global climate crisis for Earth Day, the congressman emphasized that saving the ...