[UN: Sept. 12] Resounding Vote on Palestine, US-UN Still Rudderless & More - PassBlue The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Sept. 12 condemning Hamas and its attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 and ...

The essayists write that disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, or DDR, is re-emerging as an important peacebuilding ...

Tempers flared in the hours-long debate between the US envoy, Mike Waltz, and Rodríguez, July 7, 2026. The United States lost ...

Maria Ressa and Yoshua Bengio, co-chairs of the UN’s Scientific Panel on AI, introducing its first global report at the ...

Jaishankar, left, greeting Bahrain’s UN envoy, Jamal Fares Alrowaiei, at India’s kick-off campaign for a Security Council ...

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 ...

An event marking UN Day featured Annalena Baerbock, above, the president of the General Assembly, Oct. 24, 2025. She and the monthly rotating president of the Security Council will play a vital role ...

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Terje Rod-Larsen, a Norwegian diplomat who has been president of the New York-based International Peace Institute since 2005, suddenly resigned on Oct. 29, 2020. A Norwegian newspaper reported ...

South Africa’s flow of coal exports to Israel has continued in record numbers amid the Gaza war, despite South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice. The coal ...

Habitat Heights was meant to be an 8,888 housing project outside Nairobi, but it was never built. The initiative was the centerpiece of a plan by a UN agency that landed in scandal. A United States ...

A resident at a church in Goris, Armenia, 2023. When war hit the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan that year and 100,000 or so ethnic Armenians from the area streamed through the small ...