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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... An intense flurry of activity took place among the numerous United Nations secretary-general candidates during the high-level week of the ...

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 ...

At the 81st UN General Assembly high-level week, dignitaries, diplomats and advocates moved through meetings where the futures of nations can hinge on the delicate balance of debate and persuasion.

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 ...

President Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly today was as much a nod to the upcoming midterm Congressional elections, just six weeks away, as it was to any efforts to explain his ...

Pedro Abramovay, vice president of programs for the Open Society Foundations, argues that the current candidates for UN secretary-general are focusing too heavily in their campaigns on cutting the ...