Stéphanie Fillion is a New York-based reporter specializing in foreign affairs and human rights who has been writing for PassBlue regularly for a year, including co-producing UN-Scripted, a new ...

Olof Skoog, a Swede who has been the European Union’s ambassador to the UN since 2019, in his office in New York City. What does he think is promising for the globe in 2021? The Covid-19 vaccine ...

Quarantined and Stalked by Covid-19, UN Field Staff Live With Fear and Anxiety - PassBlueKelly Clements, the deputy high commissioner for the UN Refugee Agency and from the United States, calls the ...

Jusaima Moaid-azm Peregrina is a Syrian-Spanish scholar and researcher at the University of Granada in Spain, who teaches comparative politics and political systems and regional dynamics in the ...

A US Lawyer Who Has Worked With Gitmo Detainees Details Her Journey Into a 'Kafkaesque' World - PassBluePassBlue: What could the US do with these last detainees to make it easier for them to ...

President Trump at a coronavirus update briefing, April 13, 2020. His attack on the WHO could backfire, the author argues, especially if the new pro-WHO coalition develops a vaccine before the US does ...

The UN-75 Declaration, a Daring Commitment for a More Perfect World - PassBlueIn connection with some of these differences, negotiations toward finalizing the declaration hit a snag on June 24, when ...

At a clinic at La Fossette Health Center in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, nurses vaccinate babies, among other health care services. The pandemic could further erode Haiti’s stability, experts say, given its ...

Frances Zainoeddin of the International Federation on Ageing bemoaned the slow gains made by the United Nations General Assembly to ensure the legal protection of older people’s human rights, ...

Storming the US Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. The authors, who worked on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2003, draw parallels to the mob attack on the Capitol and the Rwandan genocide ...

“We Can’t Breathe” protesters marched during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 20, 2020. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a global election monitoring group, is ...

As a counterexample, Sweden deviated in four important ways. First, the key measures designed to “flatten the curve” — the core of which was social distancing, handwashing and a ban on public ...