Saudi peace push for Palestine; Israel threatens Palestinian “economic warfare”; US sanctions UN human rights expert; UN must attract young people. Plus: Gaza; Guatemala; Sudan; Myanmar; UN reform.

Two weeks after the United States imposed sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the ...

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 80,000 people and set development indicators back 69 years, the UN says. As of 2024 ...

Yet, the first day of the conference yielded mostly speeches in a packed session supporting the two-state path to peace with ...

Dulcie Leimbach is a co-founder, with Barbara Crossette, of PassBlue. For PassBlue and other publications, Leimbach has reported from New York and overseas from West Africa (Burkina Faso and Mali) and ...

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South Africa has kept up its steady exporting of coal to Israel despite its strong rhetoric against the war in Gaza in the United Nations and elsewhere, as well as the genocide case it filed against ...

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 ...

The Russian leader Joseph Stalin and US President Franklin Roosevelt attending the Tehran Conference, Dec. 1, 1943. President Putin of Russia has claimed that Ukraine was “not a nation” to partly ...

Vuk Jeremic is a former Serbian foreign minister who may be positioning himself to run for the next UN secretary-general. He is now affiliated with a new independent, volunteer-run group focusing on ...

The UN system is contending with “unprecedented scrutiny” as it deals with a major financial problem and plans for structural reforms. “Once a taboo subject,” the essayist writes, “even the potential ...

At a press briefing held by US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, she outlined her country’s agenda as rotating president of the Security Council this month, focusing mainly on AI, Ukraine and Sudan.