As Panama assumes the helm of the United Nations Security Council for August, its top envoy is placing maritime security ...

Ulf Laessing, head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Sahel program and based in Bamako, told PassBlue: “The US seems to be ...

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 80,000 people and set development indicators back 69 years, the UN says. As of 2024 ...

Two weeks after the United States imposed sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the ...

Yet, the first day of the conference yielded mostly speeches in a packed session supporting the two-state path to peace with ...

The Trump administration’s reckless inclination to withdraw from United Nations institutions is damaging United States ...

IOM’s controversial hire; Gaza aid profiteer wants a UN meet-up; Trump’s Human Rights Council problem. Plus: Gaza’s deepening death spiral; US drops UNESCO; water & peace in W. Africa; Pacific ...

Dulcie Leimbach is a co-founder, with Barbara Crossette, of PassBlue. For PassBlue and other publications, Leimbach has reported from New York and overseas from West Africa (Burkina Faso and Mali) and ...

A Nigerian police officer demonstrating a manual search drill to locate explosive ordnance as part of IED disposal training in Borno state in the country’s northeast, the epicenter of the continuing ...

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.

Kelley Currie, US ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, has had the job since January. The Trump administration tried to eliminate the post at one point but the Senate made it permanent.