Trending UN News: Week Ending Nov. 26
Volunteers for the Netherlands Red Cross, above, help support the staff in their work to combat Covid-19 in the field. The volunteers are often the
Volunteers for the Netherlands Red Cross, above, help support the staff in their work to combat Covid-19 in the field. The volunteers are often the
A powerful but secretive United Nations General Assembly committee is scheduled to meet soon and possibly decide whether to officially recognize the
Frances Zainoeddin of the International Federation on Ageing bemoaned the slow gains made by the United Nations General Assembly to ensure the legal
Reem Alabali-Radovan, a 31-year-old daughter of Iraqi political refugees, was elected for the first time to Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, in
PassBlue was recently sent an unsolicited email by a chemistry teacher named Wahida Zalmai, who wrote that she lived in Kunduz Province in
Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Sept. 13, 2021. The essayists suggest that one way to remedy the huge
Celia Umenza, a leading Indigenous advocate for the Nasa people in the northern Cauca region of Colombia, told the United Nations Security Council on
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiating team and Alok Sharma, right, president of COP26, Nov. 14, 2021. The pact
Approximately 5,000 refugees and migrants, mostly from the Middle East and including pregnant women, are stranded at the Belarus-Poland border,
The essayist describes how “adversarial data manipulation is the nuclear weapon of the 21st century,” and why the United Nations Security Council
Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and a delegation of fellow Congressional Democrats held a press conference
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico and rotating president of the United Nations Security Council for November, chairing a Security
The secretary-general of the International Seabed Authority, Michael Lodge, Feb. 21, 2020. As corporate and national interests in seafloor mining
Hobnobbing, from left: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany; and Liz Truss, Britain’s foreign minister, during the
A photograph in an Oct. 31 tweet by an Afghan, @T_a_h_mina, saying it was “Day 44 of Taliban ban on girls returning to secondary school in