The candidates will appear before the General Assembly on April 21-22 to take questions from member states and civil society. Shortly following these General Assembly dialogues, PassBlue and 1 for 8 ...

[Feb. 27: UN] Melania in the Hot Seat, Cindy McCain of WFP to Depart & Lots More - PassBlue ...

GENEVA — Since 1998, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, has been based here in the historic Palais Wilson, formerly the building that housed the League of ...

The UN entity is playing a role in enabling the US program to deport migrants and asylum seekers to third countries, including to places that do not offer basic human rights protections. Some of the ...

It turns out that some nominees have dual citizenship, which is not a technicality that prevents their campaigns from continuing but raises questions among member states. (Sall has one citizenship, ...

The Security Council, above, will soon begin holding private interviews with the candidates vying to lead the UN as secretary ...

[UN: June 5] American Deputy Booted Over Unpaid Dues, New Security Council Members & Lots More - PassBlue ...

Chandramouli Ramanathan, the UN’s controller, told reporters on July 1, 2026, that the organization has averted a “crash” related to its financial situation by temporarily overhauling a decades-old, ...

Dulcie Leimbach is a co-founder, with Barbara Crossette, of PassBlue. For PassBlue and other publications, Leimbach has reported from New York and overseas from West Africa (Burkina Faso and Mali) and ...

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 ...

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UN Report on Oct. 7 Sexual Violence Disproves Israeli Contentions While Confirming Others - PassBlue < At the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, one of the locations where Hamas shot and killed partygoers ...