Thousands of mainly white South Africans, hoping the grass is greener on the other side of the hill, are taking advantage of ...

The UN Refugee Agency has a new executive in the Mexico City office, arriving amid a demanding moment for the organization in ...

PassBlue and the 1 for 8 Billion campaign are working together to increase public awareness of candidates’ visions for the United Nations. Our partners – 15 leading NGOs with diverse expertise – have ...

When Fu Cong, China’s ambassador to the United Nations, was asked whether Beijing intended to fill the financial and other ...

The essayist, a UN human rights specialist, writes that a new survivors of torture charter has been written by “people who have experienced this most violent of crimes” to demand that the world help ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaking to reporters about the Mideast, April 14, 2026. He has proposed an initiative to help the flow of fertilizer get through the Strait of Hormuz amid war in ...

Macky Sall, a former president of Senegal, participating at the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin, 2025. He is running for UN secretary-general for the 2027-2031 term but does not have the backing of ...

Michelle Bachelet and Rafael Grossi participating in the UN secretary-general candidate dialogues organized by the president of the General Assembly, April 21, 2026. The dialogues lasted three hours ...

In Juba, a ceremony welcoming the new force commander of the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, Maj. Gen. Junhui Wu of China, April 29, 2026. Here, troops from Bangladesh. The United States aimed ...

President Trump watches the liftoff of Artemis II in the Outer Oval Office, April 1, 2026. The essayist, an American historian and journalist who is an expert on the UN, says of Trump’s go-it-alone ...

Rebeca Grynspan, a former vice president of Costa Rica and an economist, and Macky Sall, an ex-president of Senegal, vied for the support of the General Assembly and civil society groups at UN ...

Pope Leo speaking to media, May 12, 2025. The columnist champions the pontiff as well as Naledi Pandor of South Africa, Francesca Albanese of Italy and International Criminal Court judges as “heroes ...