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

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 ...

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 ...

Adult and child migrants arriving at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos after being voluntarily returned to Nigeria with help from the International Organization for Migration, June 2026.

Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, Guyana’s envoy to the UN, faced a range of questions from member states and civil society in her bid to be the next secretary-general, competing with six other candidates.

In April, the UN General Assembly held “interactive dialogues” with candidates vying to become the next secretary-general, including Macky Sall, above, an ex-president of Senegal. It turns out that ...

The Security Council, above, will soon begin holding private interviews with the candidates vying to lead the UN as secretary-general as of Jan. 1, 2027. But it is no secret, the essayists write, that ...

Chandramouli Ramanathan, the UN’s controller, told reporters on July 1, 2026, that the organization has averted a “crash” related to its financial situation by temporarily overhauling a decades-old, ...

Recently, the Secretary-General candidates participated in General Assembly interactive dialogues to explain their visions for the United Nations. An expert group of 15 NGOs share what the candidates ...

Anda Filip is the first woman and the first Eastern European to be elected as secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in its 137-year history. She was voted in by IPU member parliaments in ...