The UN Security Council adopted a resolution condemning Iran for its “egregious attacks” on its Gulf neighbors and Jordan and affirming those countries’ right to self-defense. The text, sponsored by ...

Malala Yousafzi, the Pakistani rights activist, speaking at the UN’s observance of International Women’s Day, led by the theme of “Rights, Justice, Action for all Women and Girls,” March 9, 2026. The ...

Two and a half thousand miles north is an example of how things could develop for Haitians stuck in Tapachula. Tijuana, on ...

US Ambassador Mike Waltz, left, speaking with Ambassador Danny Danon of Israel before the start of the emergency UN Security ...

The UN Office for Counter-Terrorism acting chief, Alexandre Zouev, took part at an African Victims of Terrorism conference, led by Morocco, December 2025. As austerity policies take hold at the UN, ...

Svensson, a Swedish diplomat now working in Geneva, is threaded throughout the recent batch of Epstein files and earlier ones, revealing a friendship of decades with him. The offices of Sweden’s ...

South Africa cannot claim to have invented racism, but as we know, apartheid went far beyond racism. It was institutionalized ...

A team led by Dr. Denis Mukwege of Panzi Hospital, located in the war-ravaged eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, carry out reconstructive surgery on a five-year-old survivor of rape.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain announced on Jan. 30, 2025, at a GWL Voices conference in Madrid that “Spain, of course, supports the idea that the next person to lead the United Nations system, ...

• Hot water: The names of two UN-related Norwegian diplomats, Terje Rod -La rsen, a former UN envoy to the Mideast, and his wife, Mona Juul, an ex-envoy to the UN, Israel, Britain and, most recently, ...

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