The UN Refugee Agency, which operates worldwide, including in Myanmar, is battered by drops in voluntary funding and the US dismantling the international refugee convention. Can the agency and its ...

The fifth straw poll of the United Nations Security Council, conducted on Oct. 7, reveals no apparent candidate for UN secretary-general to lead the organization for the next five years, starting on ...

A laundry worker at the Nyakunde Ebola Treatment Center, in Ituri Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The outbreak of the virus hit the region in mid-May amid a continuing conflict ...

In an interview recently during the UN General Assembly high-level week, Nowrojee talked about what the world wants from the next UN secretary-general vs. what the powerful countries in the Security ...

In an exclusive interview with PassBlue, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations and an elected member of the Security Council, outlined Islamabad's approach to ...

Jérôme Bonnafont, France’s envoy to the UN and monthly rotating president of the Security Council, led the body’s latest straw poll in the process to select the next UN secretary-general. There is no ...

His remarks echoed his address at the high-level week last year, blaming most of his country’s problems on France, except that this year’s address singled out its northern neighbor, Algeria, for ...

Chinese Ambassador Fu Cong and Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia leaving the UN Security Council after it held its third secret straw poll in the process to select the next UN leader, Sept. 18.

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 ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian struck a defiant tone in his General Assembly speech on Wednesday, taking aim at the United States and Israel for their ongoing and “cowardly” war on his country ...

The Gang Suppression Force, endorsed by the UN Security Council, is deployed in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and outside it. The essayists write that Sri Lankan troops are to be deployed in the ...

Force Commander Maj. Gen. Batsuuri visited the Gang Suppression Force’s Artibonite deployment on Aug. 13, 2026, meeting with the Sri Lanka contingent commander and local authorities. The GSF, a ...