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

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 ...

The United States has withdrawn crucial military personnel from the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan amid continuing anger regarding US deportees sent to South Sudan and other controversies, ...

The portrait that emerges is of an organization with a vested interest in promoting the work of the underwater mining industry, a consistent habit of alienating international marine scientists whose ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than a decade after the UN conducted its last substantive effort to mediate a resolution of the Syrian conflict, the world body remains sidelined and is at best co-opted into the initiatives of ...

A screen grab of Ambassador Nicolas de Rivière of France participating in a videoconference of the UN Security Council on Syria, April 29, 2020. As president of the Council in June, he intends to ...

It was billed as a grand ceremony staged by the United Nations Association of Germany to award its biennial Otto Hahn Peace Medal to Navi Pillay, marking her decades of groundbreaking work in human ...

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 ...

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.

Prime Minister Sanna Marin of Finland, June 15, 2020, in Helsinki. One major gain for women since the 1995 Beijing conference on gender equality has been a rise in female representation in national ...