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 ...

President Vladimir Putin could face a special tribunal for the crime of aggression in Ukraine. But a core group of advocates pushing for creating such a court is divided on what it should look like.

Leadership of UN Missions: Halting Progress on the Road to Gender Parity - PassBlueConcrete action may have helped enlarge a pool of female candidates that had been constrained by institutional ...

In fact, it took an intervention from numerous governments and prominent people, including Margot Wallstrom, a former Swedish foreign minister and the first UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict, to ...

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 ...

A delegate at the United Nations, Ambassador Mariangela Zappia of Italy, casts her vote as the General Assembly elects new members to the Human Rights Council amid the pandemic. The winners were: ...

Two weeks after President Trump fired off a characteristically intemperate letter to the director-general of the World Health Organization, accusing him of incompetence in dealing with the Covid-19 ...

UN Probe Details Atrocities in Mali and Civilian Deaths From French Airstrikes - PassBlueThe commission was chaired by Lena Sundh of Sweden, who was the UN’s deputy special envoy for the Democratic ...

Abdou Abbary, Niger’s envoy to the UN, assumes the Security Council presidency for September 2020. It is the first time the nation has been in the Council for almost 40 years. JOHN PENNEY Niger hasn’t ...

Not All Human Rights Council Specialists Are Perfect: The Latest Controversy - PassBlueThe most urgent concern among opponents of decriminalization is the appointment of Mofokeng as board chair of ...

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 ...

Throwing Light on the UN's Counterterrorism World, Funded Mainly By the Saudis and Qataris - PassBlueOverall, the counterterrorism activities at the UN remain cloaked in secrecy, and people who work ...