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Nearly four years have passed since Kabul fell. While some Afghan women judges have found refuge abroad, many remain in peril ...
A Trump administration plan to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-financed contraceptives, like the IUD above, could involve ...
As Panama assumes the helm of the United Nations Security Council for August, its top envoy is placing maritime security ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lieut. Gen. Ricard Costa Neves, center, the force commander of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 2020. He is one of a succession of Brazilians to have led the UN ...
The Trump administration’s reckless inclination to withdraw from United Nations institutions is damaging United States foreign influence. Even after just a few months, the US withdrawal from the UN ...
Jennifer Locetta of Florida to be alternate representative for special political affairs in the UN, with rank of ambassador, who said, in part: “If confirmed, I will assess any proposal at the ...