Almost three years into Sudan’s devastating war, estimates put the death count at over 150,000, more than 21 million people ...
Results of PassBlue's Survey: 'Vote for the Next UN Secretary-General' - PassBlueThe results are in from our recent informal readers’ survey on who should be the next UN secretary-general for the five ...
In makeshift camps across Gaza, women carry the burden of keeping their families functioning each day. Cooking, for example, requires collecting wood to make an open fire for breakfast, above. But ...
On Dec. 19, 2025, the Troika group of the US, Norway and Britain, which has anchored Western policy on South Sudan, issued a statement urging the country’s leaders to “urgently reverse course. All ...
The event was held at the headquarters in New York City as the UN is grappling with its worst financial crisis in 80 years and is negotiating next year’s annual general operating budget, estimated to ...
It Happened at the UN: Week Ending July 4 - PassBlueFourth of July fireworks, viewed from Brooklyn, N.Y., near the East River. When the founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, in 1776 ...
In early December, the international Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in The Hague presented its verdict on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan. Two days later, on Dec. 13, the French Senate ...
In this exclusive, wide-ranging video interview with PassBlue, Slovenian Ambassador Samuel Zbogar to the United Nations reflects on his country’s two-year term as an elected member of the Security ...
“A Digital Future For All” event during the UN’s Summit of the Future, Sept. 21, 2025. The essayist, a former communications director for the world body, warns about its growing reliance on AI in its ...
Ambassador Michael Imran Kanu of Sierra Leone chairs the UN Security Council in November. He said that his country, nearing the end of its two-year term, has been ambitious in defending international ...
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday demanded by a wide margin that Russia immediately and unconditionally return all Ukrainian children who have been forcibly transferred or deported since the start ...
Malian Foreign Affairs Minister Abdoulaye Diop, center, met with William Stevens, US deputy assistant secretary of state for West Africa and US special envoy for the Sahel, left, on July 21, 2025.