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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 ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

[UN: July 10] US Envoy Rants at Cubans, Tibetan Protests Intensify & Lots More - PassBlue ...

In this exclusive interview with PassBlue, the permanent representative of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the United Nations, Zénon Mukongo Ngay, discussed the dynamic of the three elected ...

Bruno Rodríguez, Cuba’s foreign minister, spoke for 25 minutes to the General Assembly, likening the US fuel blockade against his country to a naval blockade. Tempers flared in the hours-long debate ...

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 ...

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 ...