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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Marzia Babakarkhail (@marziababakarkh) was a family law judge in Afghanistan in the 1990s. Now in England, she campaigns for evacuation and resettlement of women Afghan judges and their families ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...