Olof Skoog, a Swede who has been the European Union’s ambassador to the UN since 2019, in his office in New York City. What does he think is promising for the globe in 2021? The Covid-19 vaccine ...

Secretary of State Pompeo and Nikki Haley, the US envoy to the UN at the time, announcing the US withdrawal from the Human Rights Council, June 19, 2018. The move by the US, the author says, has ...

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy of Vietnam posing in his country’s mission office near the United Nations in New York City, March 2021. Vietnam leads the Security Council this month as rotating president.

Meet the 20-Somethings Advising the UN Chief on How to Save Planet Earth - PassBlueSoreng credits her climate activism to the culture of her family and tribe. “Even my surname has an element of nature ...

Frances Zainoeddin of the International Federation on Ageing bemoaned the slow gains made by the United Nations General Assembly to ensure the legal protection of older people’s human rights, ...

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.

More Female Judges Are Named to Top Courts, Yet Brutality Against Women Persists - PassBlueDenis Mukwege, a medical doctor who founded the Panzi Hospital in eastern Congo, was awarded the 2018 Nobel ...

“We Can’t Breathe” protesters marched during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 20, 2020. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a global election monitoring group, is ...

Two weeks after President Trump fired off a characteristically intemperate letter to the director-general of the World Health Organization, accusing him of incompetence in dealing with the Covid-19 ...

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 ...

In fact, it took an intervention from numerous governments and prominent people, including Margot Wallstrom, a former Swedish foreign minister and the first UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict, to ...

David Beasley, the World Food Program director, center, traveling the past week in northern Burkina Faso with Peter Eriksson, left, Sweden’s minister for development aid, and others. The UN agency was ...