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 ...

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 ...

UN at 75: The Security Council Must Remember Why It Exists - PassBlueCouncil members must also move away from the single-penholder system, in which a small number of predominantly permanent members ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite Years of Pledges and Plans, Gender Gaps Persist on a Global Scale - PassBlueAntivaccination movements are also often based on rumor or misplaced religious beliefs. Take Pakistan, where ...