Jan 24, 2025 · PassBlue is a nonprofit, independent women-led media company that covers foreign affairs and the United Nations with a focus on women’s issues and the impact of major world powers on ordinary citizens.

PassBlue is an award-winning, independent, women-led nonprofit news company that closely covers the US-UN relationship, women’s issues, human rights, peacekeeping and other urgent global matters playing out in the world body. We report from our base in the UN press corps in New York City and are read throughout the US and Canada and overseas: London, Geneva, Paris, Berlin, Delhi, Nairobi ...

4 days ago · • The UN deputy spokesperson, Farhan Haq, highlighted the “need to support the work of the International Criminal Court ()” after the US (Trump) signed an executive order imposing sanctions on The Hague-based court.Haq elaborated on Feb. 7, saying: “International criminal law is an essential element to fighting impunity, which …

Jan 1, 2025 · PassBlue is a nonprofit, independent women-led media company that covers foreign affairs and the United Nations with a focus on women’s issues and the impact of major world powers on ordinary citizens.

Sep 28, 2024 · Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of Russia swept in and out of the Security Council meeting on Gaza to read his speech, Sept. 27. In the General Assembly the next day, he spoke for 23 minutes on a range of matters but began by criticizing the recently agreed UN Pact for the Future, meant to invigorate multilateralism.

PassBlue is a nonprofit, independent women-led media company that covers foreign affairs and the United Nations with a focus on women’s issues and the impact of major world powers on ordinary citizens.

Jan 24, 2025 · The UN cannot do its most important job (ending war) because the basic UN Charter is too fatally flawed. The Pact for the Future provides cosmetic changes but the underlying core problems with the obsolete Charter remain so that wars aren’t prevented or stopped, justice is mocked, and poverty remains too worldwide.

Jan 24, 2025 · Overall UN Person of the Year. OVERALL UN PERSON OF THE YEAR: Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories. FIRST RUNNER-UP: Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) SECOND RUNNER-UP: António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General ...

6 days ago · Meanwhile, other actors are on the rise in Africa: the United Arab Emirates, Türkiye, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, in addition to China. Diplomacy and pressure seem to be having little impact on other, similar crises: Sudan, Myanmar, Gaza and Ukraine partly because of a lack of will and because peace diplomacy seems to be more difficult in a multipolar, inward-turned world.

4 days ago · 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 the United States to China’s commitment to climate action and its …