Although U Thant, a Burmese national, often made front-page headlines in major newspapers when he was United Nations ...

These positions are part of wide-ranging no votes cast by the US in the last year against equality and other social goals, ...

PassBlue is proud to announce our UN Persons of the Year for 2025! -- Here are the results of our readers’ votes, reflecting, as in 2024, continued deep concern over the war in Gaza as the winners and ...

Türkiye has been providing financial support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near ...

Almost three years into Sudan’s devastating war, estimates put the death count at over 150,000, more than 21 million people ...

[UN: Dec. 12] Refugee-Boss Pick, No Peace in Congo & Lots More - PassBlueOn Dec. 12, the General Assembly affirmed the ruling by the International Court of Justice that claims that UNRWA is ...

In this exclusive, wide-ranging video interview with PassBlue, Slovenian Ambassador Samuel Zbogar to the United Nations reflects on his country’s two-year term as an elected member of the Security ...

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 ...

On Dec. 19, 2025, the Troika group of the US, Norway and Britain, which has anchored Western policy on South Sudan, issued a statement urging the country’s leaders to “urgently reverse course. All ...

In makeshift camps across Gaza, women carry the burden of keeping their families functioning each day. Cooking, for example, requires collecting wood to make an open fire for breakfast, above. But ...

The event was held at the headquarters in New York City as the UN is grappling with its worst financial crisis in 80 years and is negotiating next year’s annual general operating budget, estimated to ...

In early December, the international Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in The Hague presented its verdict on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan. Two days later, on Dec. 13, the French Senate ...