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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 ...

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 ...

Secretary-General António Guterres (on screen) briefing reporters on the Mideast, April 30, 2026. He has proposed a way to help the UN from being forced to turning out its lights this summer amid a ...

Maj. Gen. Erdenebat Batsuuri, a Mongolian who is the new force commander of the Gang Suppresssion Force in Haiti, arriving in Port-au-Prince, May 14, 2026. The militarized force is mandated by the UN ...

President Trump’s controversial program expediting the process for white Afrikaners to relocate to the United States has attracted approximately 6,500 people from South Africa so far, but some now ...