Afghans Who Work for the UN in Their Country Say They Fear for Their Lives [Updated] - PassBlueAlso on Friday, Dujarric gave updates on the work of a few UN agencies in Afghanistan. The WHO has staff ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Togolese peacekeepers assembling for the visit of El-Ghassim Wane, the head of the UN mission in Mali, to the contingent’s base in Douentza after a Dec. 8 terrorist attack killed seven fellow Togolese ...

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 ...

The departure of Mark Lowcock, a Briton who recently resigned as the UN’s “relief chief,” presents a chance for a new management style to be instilled in the Office for the Coordination of ...