Sri Lanka contingent commander and local authorities. The GSF, a militarized operation authorized by the UN Security Council, faces a mandate renewal soon. Sri Lanka has a “terrible history in Haiti” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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It Happened at the UN: Week Ending June 20 - PassBlue Rafael Grossi, head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, above, told the Security Council that since June 13, his office has been ...

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 ...

Our Survey Results: Who Do You Want to Be the Next UN Secretary-General? - PassBlue Here are the results of our weeklong informal survey: “Who do you want to be the next UN Secretary-General?” ...