Stéphanie Fillion is a New York-based reporter specializing in foreign affairs and human rights who has been writing for PassBlue regularly for a year, including co-producing UN-Scripted, a new ...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on Afghanistan, Aug. 26, 2021. The essayists write that at the heart of Guterres’s new “Our Common Agenda” report focusing on the 12 ...

President Vladimir Putin could face a special tribunal for the crime of aggression in Ukraine. But a core group of advocates pushing for creating such a court is divided on what it should look like.

Russia’s permanent membership in the Security Council is at odds with its war in Ukraine, which is seen by many other nations as a violation of the Council’s mandate to “promote the establishment and ...

Overcoming Childhood Poverty and UN Bureaucracy, Noeleen Heyzer Tells Her Story - PassBlueIn the steamy forests of Borneo, she learned about the destruction of family livelihoods by the clearing of ...

In Chinese President Xi Jinping’s video to the UN-75 commemoration, he said the “sudden attack of Covid-19 is a grave test for the entire world.” Since the pandemic began in March, at least 31 million ...

Protesters in Myanmar against the military coup and bloody crackdown. The authors of the essay, former UN envoys, propose a joint regional-UN mission to protect civilians and ensure an international ...

Leadership of UN Missions: Halting Progress on the Road to Gender Parity - PassBlueConcrete action may have helped enlarge a pool of female candidates that had been constrained by institutional ...

In fact, it took an intervention from numerous governments and prominent people, including Margot Wallstrom, a former Swedish foreign minister and the first UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict, to ...

A US Lawyer Who Has Worked With Gitmo Detainees Details Her Journey Into a 'Kafkaesque' World - PassBluePassBlue: What could the US do with these last detainees to make it easier for them to ...

Trump’s Foreign Policy Brilliance? Let Me Count the Disasters - PassBlueChina’s envoy to the UN, Zhang Jun, reacting to Trump’s video speech, on Sept. 22, 2020, as he said the “United Nations must ...

A delegate at the United Nations, Ambassador Mariangela Zappia of Italy, casts her vote as the General Assembly elects new members to the Human Rights Council amid the pandemic. The winners were: ...