Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani is the permanent representative of Qatar to the United Nations and a former UN75 Declaration co-facilitator.

Dire Times in Beirut as Lebanon Faces Possible Collapse - PassBlueA photo taken recently from the author’s balcony, in Cornet Chahwan, Lebanon, with Beirut in the distance. He writes that being ...

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 ...

The Moment to End Turkey's Other War, in Cyprus, Is Fading Fast - PassBlueFor Ambassador Mavroyiannis of Cyprus at the UN, it took Akinci “courage” to speak against Erdogan and shows how he tried to ...

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.

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 ...

Reports of domestic violence are rising as Covid-19 races across the planet and people are ordered to stay home. But as UN Secretary-General Guterres said on April 5: “For many women and girls, the ...

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 ...

President Trump attending the United Nations lunch for world leaders at last year’s annual opening debate of the General Assembly, in the pre-Covid-19 universe. It is unclear if he is physically ...

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 ...

After a UN Security Council meeting on Jan. 31, 2022, called by the United States to publicly broadcast further information on the Russian-Ukraine crisis, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, America’s envoy, ...