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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Results of UN Secretary-General Straw Polls - PassBlue For straw polls on July 30 and Aug 21 and Sept 18, 2026. Click on the date in the upper chart to see results for each poll The lower chart ...

Chinese Ambassador Fu Cong and Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia leaving the UN Security Council after it held its third secret straw poll in the process to select the next UN leader, Sept. 18.

The Gang Suppression Force, endorsed by the UN Security Council, is deployed in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and outside it. The essayists write that Sri Lankan troops are to be deployed in the ...

Hans Blix, a former Swedish civil servant who also worked for the UN across decades, participating in a NATO debate in Stockholm, 2015. He says in an interview that the next UN leader will need to ...