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 ...
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 ...
President William Ruto of Kenya, center, touring new offices at the UN’s compound in Nairobi, July 2025. The UN is expanding ...
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 ...
UN restrooms in the Secretariat building at headquarters in New York City. The organization will no longer stock restrooms in ...
Youths Empowerment Scholars in Rwanda marking the annual start of the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Nov. 25, 2025. This year’s theme, chosen by UN Women, focuses on ending ...
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 ...
The family of Olga Ramos, including daughters, grandsons and granddaughters, all migrants from Venezuela, crossing the Darién Gap, a remote, roadless area in the rain forest between Panama and ...
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 ...
Ambassador Samuel Zbogar of Slovenia to the UN and rotating president of the Security Council for December. His country is advocating for a “balance between transparency and the proper process” in ...