The 15-member Security Council held its sixth straw poll in the selection procedure of the next UN boss. The ballots were ...

The UN Refugee Agency, which operates worldwide, including in Myanmar, is battered by drops in voluntary funding and the US dismantling the international refugee convention. Can the agency and its ...

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the Council has held seven meetings on AI, and four of them have been organized by a European country either alone or with other Council members. Greece’s meeting ...

In an interview recently during the UN General Assembly high-level week, Nowrojee talked about what the world wants from the next UN secretary-general vs. what the powerful countries in the Security ...

Jeff Bartos, US envoy to the UN on management and reform, far right, with fellow American diplomats, leaving the UN Security Council closed-door meeting to vote in the latest straw poll in the process ...

At the 81st UN General Assembly high-level week, dignitaries, diplomats and advocates moved through meetings where the futures of nations can hinge on the delicate balance of debate and persuasion.

The United Nations Security Council is expected to soon move into a more decisive stage of the selection process of the next ...

Pramila Patten, head of the UN office on ending sexual violence in war, far left, visiting a refugee camp in North Darfur, 2018. Secretary-General António Guterres unveiled aspects of his UN80 reform ...

Rafael Grossi, head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, participating at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 24, 2025. Grossi, an Argentine who is a candidate for UN ...

Ambassador Jamal Fares Alrowaiei of Bahrain to the UN and rotating president of the Security Council for April, met with reporters on April 1, 2026, to explain his country’s program for the month, ...

Ambassador Zénon Mukongo Ngay of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the monthly rotating president of the UN Security Council, Ngay announced that the 15 members held the first in a series of ...

When Is an Attack on UN Peacekeepers a War Crime and When Is It Not? - PassBlue Mona Ali Khalil is an internationally recognized public international lawyer with 30 years of UN and other experience, ...