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

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 ...

[UN: Jan. 23] Israel Crushes UN Compound, the $108 Billion Pension Fund & Lots More - PassBlue ...

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 ...

Latvia Sheds Its Quiet Ways as a New Member of the UN Security Council - 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Africa’s flow of coal exports to Israel has continued in record numbers amid the Gaza war, despite South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice. The coal ...

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 ...

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 ...