UN Secretary-General António Guterres on his way to holding a virtual town hall with UN personnel, Feb. 2, 2025. Besides staffing cuts of 22 percent across the UN system, Guterres is grappling with ...

On Jan. 30, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced in Madrid, at a conference on women leading the UN, that his ...

From its founding, the UN pledged to uphold “the equal rights of men and women.” That promise echoed through later milestones ...

The attacks on the UN globally and on UNRWA in the OPT converge in Trump’s latest scheme: the so-called Board of Peace. UN ...

Results of PassBlue's Survey: 'Vote for the Next UN Secretary-General' - PassBlue The results are in from our recent informal readers’ survey on who should be the next UN secretary-general for the ...

Artists Against the Bomb walking exhibition, held during Nuclear Ban Week, New York City, March 1, 2025. The author says the best way to stop the threat of another nuclear arms race is to turn to the ...

Natasa Pirc Musar, president of Slovenia, said as the keynote speaker at the GWL Voices conference in Madrid that a female UN secretary-general could “surprise us all with her resilience, innovative ...

Small states are overachievers in a big way: their seeming underdog status in geopolitics can be used to their advantage as they influence international relations in subtle, generally nonmilitary ways ...

After the 45-minute meeting between Moncada and Guterres, PassBlue asked the Venezuelan whether he had discussed his request in the Jan. 5 Security Council meeting that Nicolás Maduro, now in custody ...

In this new interview, Ambassador Michael Imran Kanu, the permanent representative of Sierra Leone to the UN, and Daniel Forti of the International Crisis Group, reflect on the country's tenure in the ...

Hundreds of Thais and others in Bangkok marking the start of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence by focusing on ending digital abuse, Nov. 30, 2025. The UN is considering merging UN ...

Legally Speaking Archives - PassBlue The international legal framework underpinning the United Nations has been under attack since the turn of the millennium. While United States President Trump is ...