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Liberia reaffirmed its stance on gender equality in diplomacy and governance through its feminist foreign policy and other ...

The essayists write that disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, or DDR, is re-emerging as an important peacebuilding ...

A meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group on WHO’s Pandemic Agreement, Geneva, March 2026. More than a year after the ...

Jaishankar, left, greeting Bahrain’s UN envoy, Jamal Fares Alrowaiei, at India’s kick-off campaign for a Security Council ...

The campaign to finally end the global HIV/AIDS crisis has reached a paradox as new, effective treatments are becoming available just as the US is burning up foreign aid to support such programs.

This week, PassBlue produced an informal survey asking our readers to submit what they considered the most important question they would ask the current UN secretary-general candidates if they had a ...

Maria Ressa and Yoshua Bengio, co-chairs of the UN’s Scientific Panel on AI, introducing its first global report at the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, Geneva, this week. The essayist writes that ...

GENEVA — Since 1998, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, has been based here in the historic Palais Wilson, formerly the building that housed the League of ...

Adult and child migrants arriving at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos after being voluntarily returned to Nigeria with help from the International Organization for Migration, June 2026.

Zénon Mukongo Ngay, ambassador of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the UN, July 1, 2026. As rotating president of the Security Council this month, his country will hold debates on advancing an ...

In April, the UN General Assembly held “interactive dialogues” with candidates vying to become the next secretary-general, including Macky Sall, above, an ex-president of Senegal. It turns out that ...