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 ...
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The EU’s history of support to the authority and rapid build-up of funding to Gaza — where the Board of Peace is struggling ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ambassador Christina Markus Lassen of Denmark, monthly rotating president of the UN Security Council for August, confirming to media that Council members held an informal straw poll to vote for the ...
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 ...
Sigrid Kaag, the UN senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza, whose team included Yahav Lichner, behind her, left, April 24, 2024. Lichner was accused recently of leaking ...
US President Trump and his wife, Melania, on the escalator to the UN General Assembly Hall, Sept. 23, 2025. The essayist writes that although Trump has become an “outright antagonist” to the UN in his ...