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Nearly four years have passed since Kabul fell. While some Afghan women judges have found refuge abroad, many remain in peril ...
A Trump administration plan to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-financed contraceptives, like the IUD above, could involve ...
Ulf Laessing, head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Sahel program and based in Bamako, told PassBlue: “The US seems to be ...
Francesca Albanese, an Italian and UN human rights expert, has been sanctioned by the United States for her work regarding the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The UN has protested the US sanctions by ...
During the UN’s annual Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Bolivia held a press briefing on the country’s proposals to address such matters as asking the General Assembly to recognize the ...
Some members of the UN-led Women’s Advisory Board, including Asma Kutmaro, far left, an Islamist scholar, and Nawal Yazeji, in the pink shirt, a feminist. Geneva, April 2016. MARIA LUISA GAMBALE ...
Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Feb. 4, 2025. After the US attacked at least three nuclear sites in Iran on June 21, Trump tweeted: “NOW IS THE ...
UN80 Plan Spells Doom for the Organization's Core Work, Insiders Say - PassBlueAt the same time, there’s consensus among member states and the broader UN community that the organization needs reform ...
Troops from Djibouti working for the African Union peacekeeping mission based in Somalia, known as AUSSOM, gave clothing to orphans and families in displaced persons camps and villages for Eid, the ...
Rwanda defense forces, above, have helped to liberate a key region in northeastern Mozambique from armed militias, after Russia’s Wagner Group failed to do so. But can Rwanda’s troops defeat the ...
At a press briefing held by US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, she outlined her country’s agenda as rotating president of the Security Council this month, focusing mainly on AI, Ukraine and Sudan.