The UN Refugee Agency has a new executive in the Mexico City office, arriving amid a demanding moment for the organization in ...

As the so-called “penholder” on South Sudan, Washington shaved off language on gender, climate change, misinformation and ...

The candidates will appear before the General Assembly on April 21-22 to take questions from member states and civil society. Shortly following these General Assembly dialogues, PassBlue and 1 for 8 ...

When Fu Cong, China’s ambassador to the United Nations, was asked whether Beijing intended to fill the financial and other ...

The essayist, a UN human rights specialist, writes that a new survivors of torture charter has been written by “people who have experienced this most violent of crimes” to demand that the world help ...

On April 21-22, the Secretary-General candidates participated in General Assembly interactive dialogues to explain their visions for the United Nations. An expert group of 15 NGOs share what the ...

Macky Sall, a former president of Senegal, participating at the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin, 2025. He is running for UN secretary-general for the 2027-2031 term but does not have the backing of ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaking to reporters about the Mideast, April 14, 2026. He has proposed an initiative to help the flow of fertilizer get through the Strait of Hormuz amid war in ...

Michelle Bachelet and Rafael Grossi participating in the UN secretary-general candidate dialogues organized by the president of the General Assembly, April 21, 2026. The dialogues lasted three hours ...

A recent vigil outside a major detention center, Rodeo 1, in Guatire, Venezuela. Mothers of detainees have been sleeping over as part of their protest. Since the capture of President Nicolás Maduro by ...

President Trump watches the liftoff of Artemis II in the Outer Oval Office, April 1, 2026. The essayist, an American historian and journalist who is an expert on the UN, says of Trump’s go-it-alone ...

Rebeca Grynspan, a former vice president of Costa Rica and an economist, and Macky Sall, an ex-president of Senegal, vied for the support of the General Assembly and civil society groups at UN ...