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As global e-trash accelerates, informal waste economies have sprung up in many places, creating serious health hazards and questioning the usefulness of the Basel convention on controlling ...

Hana al-Tarazi is the only woman on the newly named National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, the technocratic bureau of the US-led Board of Peace. Her role is social affairs commissioner.

The race to select the next United Nations secretary-general has started. As of December 2025, 108 member states, noting that ...

James Kariuki, Britain’s chargé d’affaires to the United Nations, says his country will continue to push the ambitions of the women, peace and security agenda as a permanent member and rotating ...

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Artists Against the Bomb walking exhibition, held during Nuclear Ban Week, New York City, March 1, 2025. The author says the best way to stop the threat of another nuclear arms race is to turn to the ...

The first televised live debate in the UN General Assembly focusing on candidates for secretary-general, 2016. The essayists argue that it’s not only time for a woman to finally lead the UN, as the ...

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Annalena Baerbock, president of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, told reporters that she has appealed to member states to submit candidates to run for UN secretary-general. Only one person ...

Fernando Travesí-Sanz, executive director of the New York City-based International Center for Transitional Justice, photographed in his office in Lower Manhattan, Jan. 8, 2026. His organization works ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Jan. 7 that the Trump administration was withdrawing from 66 international organizations, including 31 UN entities, because they were “wasteful,” among other ...