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• Spokesperson’s briefing: Guterres will convene Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders and representatives of the guarantor powers Greece, UK and Türkiye in the UN’s New York City headquarters July 16-17 ...

The United Nations Security Council is being increasingly criticized for failing to bring peace to many conflicts raging ...

Vote on major UN Agenda Reform Ideas - PassBluePassBlue is a nonprofit, independent women-led media company that covers foreign affairs and the United Nations with a focus on women’s issues and the ...

As part of an evening ceremony marking UN Charter Day (June 26), an exhibition features the original, 80-year-old UN Charter on display at UN headquarters in New York City, courtesy of the US National ...

A screen grab of Ambassador Nicolas de Rivière of France participating in a videoconference of the UN Security Council on Syria, April 29, 2020. As president of the Council in June, he intends to ...

Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Turk opened the 59th session of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council amid decreasing financial budgets ...

More than a decade after the UN conducted its last substantive effort to mediate a resolution of the Syrian conflict, the world body remains sidelined and is at best co-opted into the initiatives of ...

Beijing, 25 Years Later: Are Women Better Off? - PassBlueThe Chilean delegation at the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995, drew approximately 17,000 participants, including government delegates, ...

Afghan women resisting the Taliban’s repression, above. The essayist writes that although many women judges, like her, have escaped Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of August 2021, 68 women ...

The Chances for a Woman Leading the UN Soon Are Fading Fast - PassBlueAkanksha, 34, met with Canadian government officials last week — she is a Canadian citizen born in India — but it is unlikely she ...