Francesca Albanese, an Italian and UN human rights expert, has been sanctioned by the United States for her work regarding the Occupied Palestinian territory. The UN has protested the US sanctions by ...

A resident at a church in Goris, Armenia, 2023. When war hit the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan that year and 100,000 or so ethnic Armenians from the area streamed through the small ...

UN80 Plan Spells Doom for the Organization's Core Work, Insiders Say - PassBlueAt the same time, there’s consensus among member states and the broader UN community that the organization needs reform ...

South Africa has kept up its steady exporting of coal to Israel despite its strong rhetoric against the war in Gaza in the United Nations and elsewhere, as well as the genocide case it filed against ...

The UN system is contending with “unprecedented scrutiny” as it deals with a major financial problem and plans for structural reforms. “Once a taboo subject,” the essayist writes, “even the potential ...

Troops from Djibouti working for the African Union peacekeeping mission based in Somalia, known as AUSSOM, gave clothing to orphans and families in displaced persons camps and villages for Eid, the ...

Kiribati May Be Surrounded by Water, but There's Not Enough to Drink - PassBlueClose encounters with the equator Kiribati consists of 33 coral islands divided among three island groups: the Gilbert ...

Ambassador Joonkook Hwang of South Korea to the United Nations, photographed in his office at his country’s mission in New York City, May 16, 2024. South Korea is the target of a range of cyberattacks ...

The UN General Assembly is scheduled to vote this week on a draft resolution that, among other sweeping actions, demands that Israel abide by its obligations under international law to enable the ...

Andrii Melnyk, the new permanent representative of Ukraine, presenting his credentials to Secretary-General Guterres, May 29, 2025. JOHN PENNEY/PASSBLUE Top UN news: Monday, May 26: The UN was closed ...

Vuk Jeremic is a former Serbian foreign minister who may be positioning himself to run for the next UN secretary-general. He is now affiliated with a new independent, volunteer-run group focusing on ...