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UN Contracts With Companies Doing Business in Israel May Violate Ethics
Gaza destruction. A UN report by Francesca Albanese, the human rights expert on the occupied Palestinian territories, lists multinational corporations that do business with the Israel government,...
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How the UN’s Internal Justice System Stifles Whistleblowers
Secretary-General António Guterres holding a town hall meeting with United Nations staff members based in Vienna, May 11, 2022. At a recent anticorruption conference, held by Transparency...
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US Jump-Starts IOM Leadership Election Race
Amy Pope, the deputy director-general of the International Organization for Migration, announced her candidacy for the agency’s top job this week. The current head of the organization, António...
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UN Watchdog Board Is Expected to Criticize Russia for Its Actions at the...
Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, with his technical team in Ukraine, inspecting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is occupied by Russian troops, Sept. 1,...
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Unesco Protects Borscht as a National Treasure of Ukraine. What Would My...
Unesco has declared the soup “borsch” in “urgent need of safeguarding” and officially Ukrainian, acting on request of the government as Russia tries to erase Ukraine’s culture, land and people. The...
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Russia’s Violations of Global Aviation Rules Could Leave the UN With Tough,...
Russia has recently violated certain rules of the International Civil Aviation Authority, which ensures flight safety standards in global skies. The country has until Sept. 14 to remedy its...
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The UN’s Fund for Agricultural Development Has a New Boss. He Faces a Cash...
Álvaro Lario was elected president to the Rome-based International Fund for Agricultural Development on July 7 and was most recently its chief financial officer. He must contend with intensifying...
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The Obscure Organization Powering a Race to Mine the Bottom of the Seas
The secretary-general of the International Seabed Authority, Michael Lodge, Feb. 21, 2020. As corporate and national interests in seafloor mining intensifies, critics of the organization, an autonomous...
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Spoilers of Peace in Yemen; COP26’s First Week; Morale Boosting by Blinken
Hobnobbing, from left: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany; and Liz Truss, Britain’s foreign minister, during the COP26 party at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum,...
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Human Rights for Western Sahara?; a Cease-Fire Comes to Central African...
A group of women from Afghanistan briefed reporters on Oct. 21 outside the chamber of the United Nations Security Council, as it met for its annual session on women, peace and security. At the...
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#UNGA76 Is Here; Women on Edge in Afghanistan; Biden’s Hit-and-Miss With Allies
As chair of The Elders group of global leaders, Mary Robinson, above, led a discussion in the Security Council on the catch-all rubric of “maintenance of international peace and security,” Sept. 7,...
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A Jordanian Diplomat With Development Expertise Will Lead UN Women
Sima Sami Bahous, Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations until recently, pictured in 2019. She is to be appointed executive director of UN Women, succeeding Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of South Africa...
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The UN Sticks to Afghanistan; Ireland Steers the Security Council; Preying on...
Ramiz Alakbarov, the United Nations’ top humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan, briefed reporters from Kabul, the capital, on conditions there on Sept. 1. He described Taliban rule as “decentralized”...
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What Should the New Head of UN Women Tackle First? Strong Advice From Feminists
At the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico City in March 2021, convened by UN Women, the Nahuatl indigenous people held an opening ceremony, called a tlalmanali, or “offering to the earth.” The UN...
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#UNGA76 Is Here; Women on Edge in Afghanistan; Biden’s Hit-and-Miss With Allies
As chair of The Elders group of global leaders, Mary Robinson, above, led a discussion in the Security Council on the catch-all rubric of “maintenance of international peace and security,” Sept. 7,...
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A Jordanian Diplomat With Development Expertise Will Lead UN Women
Sima Sami Bahous, Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations until recently, pictured in 2019. She is to be appointed executive director of UN Women, succeeding Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of South Africa...
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The UN Sticks to Afghanistan; Ireland Steers the Security Council; Preying on...
Ramiz Alakbarov, the United Nations’ top humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan, briefed reporters from Kabul, the capital, on conditions there on Sept. 1. He described Taliban rule as “decentralized”...
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Women Will Achieve Equality, No Matter What: Natalia Kanem of UNFPA Explains
Natalia Kanem has been leading the UN Population Fund since 2017. The last few years have been marked by global catastrophes provoked by the pandemic, but once she was vaccinated, Kanem began traveling...
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Afghans Who Work for the UN in Their Country Say They Fear for Their Lives
In Kabul, the entrance to Hamid Karzai International Airport was jammed with people trying to flee the country, Aug. 16, 2021. The United Nations has a large presence in Afghanistan and said it was...
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Despite the Intensifying Dangers in Afghanistan, the UN Says It Is Staying...
Deborah Lyons, the head of the United Nations’ political mission in Afghanistan, told the Security Council on Aug. 6: “In the past weeks, the war in Afghanistan has entered a new, deadlier, and more...
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