At the recent annual opening session of the General Assembly, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley declared that “the world ...

The Trailblazer Award was created in 2022 by the UN Justice and Corrections Service of the Office for the Rule of Law and Security Institutions. The award, sponsored by Canada, was designed to honor ...

The calls for a woman to lead the UN got top billing at a few sideline events held during the week of Sept. 21. At these ...

The struggling women, peace & security agenda; Russia, echoing US, damns the EU; breaking the SecGen glass ceiling, big ...

A Gang Suppression Force to be installed in Haiti was approved by the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday through a resolution that transitions the Multinational Security Support (MSS) police ...

As Russia assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council for October, some of its top diplomats ...

Palantir is involved in everything from government surveillance and predictive policing to gathering battlefield intelligence and monitoring nuclear safeguards. It is ensconced in the US government ...

António Guterres taking the oath of office for his first five-year term as UN secretary-general, beginning on Jan. 1, 2017. He is in the middle of his second term, which ends on Dec. 31, 2026. Civil ...

Christian Wenaweser, Liechtenstein’s envoy to the United Nations, photographed at the country’s office in New York City, Sept. 6, 2024. He led the work to create the Veto Initiative at the UN. It ...

A press briefing held by Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris of Greece, May 1, 2025. The country is a founding member of the UN, and as rotating president this month, it will hold a special debate on ...

A Trump administration plan to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-financed contraceptives, like the IUD above, could involve France incinerating the products, which were meant to go to women in some of ...

Pramila Patten, head of the UN office on ending sexual violence in war, far left, visiting a refugee camp in North Darfur, 2018. Secretary-General António Guterres unveiled aspects of his UN80 reform ...