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 ...

Pedro Abramovay, vice president of programs for the Open Society Foundations, argues that the current candidates for UN secretary-general are focusing too heavily in their campaigns on cutting the ...

A laundry worker at the Nyakunde Ebola Treatment Center, in Ituri Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The outbreak of the virus hit the region in mid-May amid a continuing conflict ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian struck a defiant tone in his General Assembly speech on Wednesday, taking aim at the United States and Israel for their ongoing and “cowardly” war on his country ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... An intense flurry of activity took place among the numerous United Nations secretary-general candidates during the high-level week of the ...

President Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly today was as much a nod to the upcoming midterm Congressional elections, just six weeks away, as it was to any efforts to explain his ...