President William Ruto of Kenya, center, touring new offices at the UN’s compound in Nairobi, July 2025. The UN is expanding its largest hub in the global South, but human rights defenders, including ...

That is why the time has come — yet again — to elect a woman, a woman from Eastern Europe, as the next secretary-general.

Ninety-one member states in the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution demanding that Russia “immediately, ...

The essayists write that at the seventh session of the UN Environment Assembly conference this week, to be held in Nairobi, ...

In 2017, United States President Trump said of refugees: “I hate taking these people. I guarantee you they are bad,” leaving ...

Ambassador Samuel Zbogar of Slovenia to the UN and rotating president of the Security Council for December. His country is ...

Results of PassBlue's Survey: 'Vote for the Next UN Secretary-General' - PassBlueThe results are in from our recent informal readers’ survey on who should be the next UN secretary-general for the five ...

In this new interview, Ambassador Michael Imran Kanu, the permanent representative of Sierra Leone to the UN, and Daniel Forti of the International Crisis Group, reflect on the country's tenure in the ...

Prashanthi Krishnamoorthy, a diplomat from Sri Lanka, in a traditional sari to represent her country. Josiane Toundzi, who works for the UN, in a dress created by an African designer, Pathé'O.

The United Nations Development Program’s Pacific Office offered recovery help after Cyclone Yasa swept through the island nation of Fiji, January 2021. The author of this essay explains how ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, center, about to hold a global town hall session with UN personnel, March 27, 2025. A US representative at the UN has recently criticized the rate of UN salaries ...

Vivian van de Perre, a deputy chief of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, briefed the Security Council remotely from besieged Goma dressed in protective ...