It’s that time of year again when world leaders descend on New York for the United Nations’ annual General Assembly. In this special podcast episode, Dulcie Leimbach, editor-in-chief of PassBlue, and ...
GENEVA — Since 1998, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, has been based here in the historic Palais Wilson, formerly the building that housed the League of ...
The essayists write that Sri Lankan troops are to be deployed in the armed force, even though decades ago a Sri Lanka military court convicted troops of sexual exploitation and abuse while they were ...
In an exclusive interview with PassBlue, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations and an elected member of the Security Council, outlined Islamabad's approach to ...
Some of the UN secretary-general candidates waiting behind the scenes for a General Assembly town hall debate to begin, July 23, 2026. The essayist writes that the requirement of nominees to file ...
The essayists write that “climate has never left the scene” in the UN secretary-general candidates’ race. Yet there is no ...
Sri Lanka contingent commander and local authorities. The GSF, a militarized operation authorized by the UN Security Council, faces a mandate renewal soon. Sri Lanka has a “terrible history in Haiti” ...
Hans Blix, a former Swedish civil servant who also worked for the UN across decades, participating in a NATO debate in Stockholm, 2015. He says in an interview that the next UN leader will need to ...
On August 19-20, the two latest Secretary-General candidates participated in General Assembly interactive dialogues to explain their visions for the United Nations. An expert group of 15 NGOs share ...
PassBlue and the 1 for 8 Billion campaign are working together to increase public awareness of candidates’ visions for the United Nations. Our partners – 15 leading NGOs with diverse expertise – have ...
The United States has paid $827 million toward its outstanding assessed contribution to the United Nations regular and peacekeeping budgets, providing a major cash infusion as the organization ...
Olara Otunnu was nominated by Uganda on July 24. Mr Otunnu’s vision statement spans five pages and is available here. His General Assembly hearing took place on August 19 and is available here.
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