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A Malian, above, who was forced to leave her home and temporarily settle in the Mopti region because of climate-related conflict. Mali is one of numerous countries across Africa and Asia that the ...
Throwing Light on the UN's Counterterrorism World, Funded Mainly By the Saudis and Qataris - PassBlueOverall, the counterterrorism activities at the UN remain cloaked in secrecy, and people who work ...
Two weeks after President Trump fired off a characteristically intemperate letter to the director-general of the World Health Organization, accusing him of incompetence in dealing with the Covid-19 ...
From a Royal Palace to Ivy Halls: A Dissident's View of the Arab Spring - PassBlueOver the years, as he became more outspoken in his advocacy for reform, relations with his family deteriorated. Twenty ...
President Vladimir Putin could face a special tribunal for the crime of aggression in Ukraine. But a core group of advocates pushing for creating such a court is divided on what it should look like.
Leadership of UN Missions: Halting Progress on the Road to Gender Parity - PassBlueConcrete action may have helped enlarge a pool of female candidates that had been constrained by institutional ...
Quarantined and Stalked by Covid-19, UN Field Staff Live With Fear and Anxiety - PassBlueKelly Clements, the deputy high commissioner for the UN Refugee Agency and from the United States, calls the ...
The 1960s-era bunker for the North Vietnamese Politburo at the Hanoi citadel. The space was used to plot war strategy against South Vietnam and the United States, Unesco’s expert advisory panel says.
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil with President Donald Trump of the United States, March 19, 2019, in the White House. Both men are scheduled to attend the annual opening session of the UN General ...
In fact, it took an intervention from numerous governments and prominent people, including Margot Wallstrom, a former Swedish foreign minister and the first UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict, to ...
At a clinic at La Fossette Health Center in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, nurses vaccinate babies, among other health care services. The pandemic could further erode Haiti’s stability, experts say, given its ...
Kelly Craft, the US envoy to the UN, arriving in the morning at the General Assembly Hall to cast her country’s secret ballot for various UN elections, June 17, 2020. By the afternoon, the new members ...