In an exclusive video interview, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Fu Cong, spoke to PassBlue recently on key issues shaping Beijing’s foreign policy — from trade tensions with ...

• Lieut. Gen. Ulisses De Mesquita Gomes of Brazil, Monusco’s new force commander, arrives in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, ...

Don’t give up on the UN, Alejandrina Basulto Alvarez urges young people (and older), who may feel the organization is not ...

China will hold a signature event on multilateralism and global governance,” Fu, 59, said. “As we are faced with all these global challenges, no country can stay aloof, and that includes the United ...

Vivian van de Perre, a deputy chief of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, briefed the Security Council remotely from besieged Goma dressed in protective ...

Israel’s ban of UNRWA operations is to take effect Jan. 30, violating international law. As part of the ban, Israel is demanding that the UN agency, which supports Palestinian refugees in the occupied ...

A UN team inspecting an unexploded bomb on a main road in Khan Younis, Gaza. As people return to the north amid the ceasefire, the UN’s Mine Action Service is increasing its de-mining work in the ...

Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for her confirmation hearing as nominee for UN envoy, Jan. 21, 2025. “It has never been more critical for the ...

Riccardo Fabiani is the North Africa Project Director for the International Crisis Group. He has more than 10 years of professional experience as a political analyst and economist on North Africa, ...

Meron Habte Essaias, the legal adviser at Eritrea’s mission to the United Nations, says the double standards in how international law is applied remains a major problem facing the world body. “The ...

Sukehiro Hasegawa is a former senior UN official and member of the Peacemaking Reflection Group of former UN system staff (PRG), which is supported by the Foundation for Global Governance and ...

The Security Council can be reformed, but how? The authors, a trio of ex-UN officials, suggest a two-step approach, focusing on five “key issues”: the size of an expanded body, membership categories, ...