The United Nations Security Council is being increasingly criticized for failing to bring peace to many conflicts raging ...

Damilola Banjo is an award-winning staff reporter for PassBlue who has covered a wide range of topics, from Africa-centered stories to gender equality to UN peacekeeping and US-UN relations. She also ...

Kelley Currie, US ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, has had the job since January. The Trump administration tried to eliminate the post at one point but the Senate made it permanent.

'He Is Who He Is': 4 Experts Assess the Record of the UN's António Guterres - PassBlue“Guterres has had a bad hand to play. He has been in office during the era of Donald Trump, Xi of China and Putin ...

They Call It Multistakeholderism. Where Does That Leave the UN? - PassBlueThe weakening tie is driven both by outside factors and internal realities. The pressures on the UN system are significant.

YEREVAN, Armenia — The International Criminal Court’s first prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, is best known for prosecuting national criminals like the ex-Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir. A 2022 movie ...

Afghan women resisting the Taliban’s repression, above. The essayist writes that although many women judges, like her, have escaped Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of August 2021, 68 women ...

Sudan May Have Banned FGM, but the Harsh Practice Continues - PassBlueHowever, Jarai Sabally, a program officer from Donor Direct Action, which promotes women’s rights, suggested that the pandemic ...

Nations of the world have taken giant steps in recent decades to build international structures and strengthen institutions to deal with mass human-rights abusers. At almost every stage, Navi Pillay, ...

Helga Schmid, the secretary general of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, visiting Kyiv, Ukraine, May 27, 2021. A German, she may not be widely known beyond the tight circle of ...

Allison Lecce is a graduate of Fordham University, with a degree in international studies and journalism. She received the Fordham College Alumni Association Journalism Scholars Award and is working ...

President Trump, Ambassador Nikki Haley and H.R. McMaster, who was the US national security adviser at the time, Oct. 20, 2017. Haley said she had direct access to the president, but she never ...