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The United States has withdrawn crucial military personnel from the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan amid continuing anger regarding US deportees sent to South Sudan and other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 Obscure Organization Powering a Race to Mine the Bottom of the Seas - PassBlue“What the ocean gives, it can take away,” Thomson writes. “While our understanding of the ocean’s properties is still ...

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 ...

Nations of the world have taken giant steps in recent decades to build international structures and strengthen institutions to deal with mass human-rights abusers. At almost every stage, Navi Pillay, ...

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.

Beijing, 25 Years Later: Are Women Better Off? - PassBlueThe Chilean delegation at the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995, drew approximately 17,000 participants, including government delegates, ...