The United Nations Security Council is being increasingly criticized for failing to bring peace to many conflicts raging ...

Guterres arriving at a General Assembly meeting to talk about his UN80 initiative. Behind him is his deputy, Amina Mohammed, May 12, 2025. Hearing about the plan for the first time publicly, many ...

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 ...

Damilola Banjo is an award-winning staff reporter for PassBlue who has covered a wide range of topics, from Africa-centered stories to gender equality to UN peacekeeping and US-UN relations. She also ...

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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 ...

International Justice Archives - PassBlueThis Week @UN: Delaying gaps in crime of aggression; US still finances Nigeria de-mining work; humanitarians want crisis planning. Plus: South Sudan airdrops; ...

The top three winners of PassBlue’s informal survey on which woman should lead the UN next, in order, from left, Michelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile; Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbardos ...

PassBlue is a nonprofit, independent women-led media company that covers foreign affairs and the United Nations with a focus on women’s issues and the impact of major world powers on ordinary citizens ...

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 ...

Arthur Bassas is a researcher and writer who graduated from St. Andrews in Scotland, majoring in international relations and terrorism. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and speaks English and French.

President Zuzana Caputova of Slovakia spoke at last year’s opening session of the General Assembly, and is the first woman to speak at this year’s, albeit 53rd on the list. RICK BAJORNAS/UN PHOTO The ...