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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Volkan Bozkir, president of the General Assembly, chairing a meeting of the body, Nov. 5, 2020. Bozkir, who is a diplomat and former politician, has created a gender advisory board in the Assembly ...

Celia Umenza, a leading Indigenous advocate for the Nasa people in the northern Cauca region of Colombia, told the United Nations Security Council on Oct. 21, 2021, that it bears some responsibility ...

How Well Can the UN Development Program Manage Global Climate Funding? - PassBlueAlok Sharma, president of the COP26 and a British minister of state, negotiating the final agreement from the ...

Brian Urquhart, a Briton who had served the UN from its founding, across decades of global upheaval, died on Jan. 2, 2021, at 101 years old. Here, he speaks at a General Assembly commemoration marking ...

For Women in Politics Globally, the Job Can Mean Abuse, Jail or Death - PassBlueJoana Momambe, a parliamentarian in Zimbabwe, was arrested and beaten by security officials in May 2020 after she ...

Pressure Builds to Mine International Waters Amid Questions About Ecosystems and Profit-Sharing - PassBlueMichael Lodge, a Briton who is secretary-general of the Kingston, Jamaica-based International ...