The United Nations Security Council is being increasingly criticized for failing to bring peace to many conflicts raging worldwide today. As the monthly rotating president of the UN’s most important ...

Damilola Banjo is an award-winning staff reporter for PassBlue who has covered a wide range of topics, from Africa-centered stories to gender equality to UN peacekeeping and US-UN relations. She also ...

Afghan women resisting the Taliban’s repression, above. The essayist writes that although many women judges, like her, have escaped Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of August 2021, 68 women ...

President Joe Biden presents the Medal of Freedom for former US Senator John McCain to Ambassador Cindy McCain, July 7, 2022, in the White House. McCain has been named the new head of the UN’s World ...

75 Years In, Does the UN Still Matter? Our New Podcast Episode - PassBlueAs Secretary-General António Guterres put it: “The world is not yet multipolar, it’s essentially chaotic.” Although it is ...

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.

Mark Lowcock, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, visiting a camp in South Kordofan, Sudan. Lowcock, who recently resigned to return home to England, is the ...

An Irish-American Idealist: Samantha Power - PassBlueShe also initiated the Council’s first discussion of North Korea’s “brutal” treatment of its own people and helped to push through several other ...

José Singer Weisinger, a businessman, is representing the Dominican Republic as a new special envoy during the country’s two-year term on the UN Security Council, starting in January. The country is ...

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 ...

Arthur Bassas is a researcher and writer who graduated from St. Andrews in Scotland, majoring in international relations and terrorism. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and speaks English and French.

A delegate at the United Nations, Ambassador Mariangela Zappia of Italy, casts her vote as the General Assembly elects new members to the Human Rights Council amid the pandemic. The winners were: ...