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 ...

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 ...

Saudi peace push for Palestine; Israel threatens Palestinian “economic warfare”; US sanctions UN human rights expert; UN must attract young people. Plus: Gaza; Guatemala; Sudan; Myanmar; UN reform.

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 ...

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The Trump administration symbolically withdrew from the Geneva-based Human Rights Council in February, accusing the 47-member ...

An IOM spokesperson told PassBlue in an email on July 11 that Sison’s new role was created in September 2024 to expand operations in the organization’s Washington office. “IOM has had a DC office for ...