The next UN high commissioner for refugees should be a woman, the essayists write, because leadership in multilateral ...

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As the United Nations gears up to select its next leader for the 2027-2031 term, here are the key rules and conventions to ...

The United Nations Security Council approved an American-led resolution endorsing and providing an international legal ...

The UN General Assembly is to elect new judges to the organization’s Dispute and Appeals Tribunal, respectively, on Nov. 17.

An overnight attack on Nov. 14 against Kyiv killed four people and injured at least 29 civilians from Russia’s latest massive ...

The United Nations Security Council renewed the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic on ...

Climate change is widening the gender gap. It is erasing decades of hard-won progress for gender equality. Most people ...

Perhaps the words of Samuel Beckett frame the challenges of stabilization best for Gaza: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” In Gaza, however, failure cannot be ...

• Results of PassBlue’s Survey: ‘Vote for the Next UN Secretary-General’, by PassBlue. Michelle Bachelet, ex-two-time president of Chile, won the informal readers’ poll. The results were reported ...

Prashanthi Krishnamoorthy, a diplomat from Sri Lanka, in a traditional sari to represent her country. Josiane Toundzi, who works for the UN, in a dress created by an African designer, Pathé'O.

At an event during the recent ministerial conference in Paris on foreign feminist policy, Lyric Thompson, founder of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, left, and Marita Perceval, a senior ...