Hans Blix, a former Swedish civil servant who also worked for the UN across decades, participating in a NATO debate in Stockholm, 2015. He says in an interview that the next UN leader will need to ...

European countries — as reflected in France, Greece and Latvia among those leading the meeting — have pushed hardest for common rules, human-rights safeguards and human control. African members ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the opening session of the Human Rights Council’s 58th session. In response to the controversy over Guterres’s remarks about UN special rapporteurs ...

The UN General Assembly debate with candidates campaigning for secretary-general, July 23, 2026. A PassBlue investigation into the English-language Wikipedia pages of each candidate, now numbering ...

The essayists, former UN mediators, argue that the dominant topic of the race is peace and security, which not only entails ...

A town hall held on July 23, 2026, in the UN General Assembly in which the six candidates vying for UN chief diplomat at the ...

The EU’s history of support to the authority and rapid build-up of funding to Gaza — where the Board of Peace is struggling ...

Two new candidates vying to become the UN boss, Olara Otunnu, left, supported by his country, Uganda, and Ivonne A-Baki, an Ecuadorian backed by Tonga, presented their visions to member states this ...

Yahav Lichner, right, with Ramiz Alakbarov, a top UN official in the Mideast, posted on Lichner’s Instagram account, date unknown. Lichner, an official with Unicef and an Israeli, has been put on ...

The World Food Programme, a major UN humanitarian aid agency, holds one of the largest biometric databases in the world, but its continuing business with the software developing firm Palantir to help ...

Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, talks to the media after her country just won a seat in the UN Security Council, June 2025. In an interview with ...