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What Now, António?
Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters after an informal meeting with negotiating parties on Cyprus in Geneva, April 28, 2021. As
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Turnabout in US Foreign Policy Puts UN in the Spotlight
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN since late February, has recently traveled to Ecuador and to Turkey, raising her profile in the
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Attacks on Burmese Military Intensify Nationwide, Signaling a Possible Revolt
Lawyers march in an anti-dictatorship protest in Yangon. A growing rebellion is spreading across Myanmar as the Feb. 1 coup effects continue to
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Major UN Elections; Guterres Crosses One Finish Line; Long Working Hours Can Kill You
The Ghana delegation posing outside the United Nations General Assembly Hall, June 11, 2021, after the Assembly voted on Security Council members for
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A Missed Opportunity: Putting a Woman at the Top of the UN
Secretary-General António Guterres briefing reporters on May 20, 2021, saying he welcomed the cease-fire between Gaza and Israel in the sudden war
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Long Working Hours Are Linked to Increased Risk of Death, a UN Report Finds
A new joint United Nations study looking at data from 2016 found that long working hours, 55 or more a week, led to a 29 percent increase of deaths
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New Pressures Are Shaping Environmental Debates, a Leader Says
The adoption of the Paris Agreement, Dec. 12, 2015. Christiana Figueres, left, executive director of the United Nations Framework Convention on
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The Threats of Corruption; a Country Run by Women; Iran Loses Its UN Voting Rights
As fighting rages in pockets of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, a lack of seeds and fertilizer for the planting season poses threats of famine for
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A Year Later, a Sex-Video Inquiry Tied to the UN Mission in Israel Remains a Mystery
In Jerusalem, the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization participated in Earth Hour, March 27, 2021, a global movement in which people
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Her Personal Mission: Helping to Release Yemen’s Prisoners in Its Continuing War
In October 2020, more than 1,000 people formerly detained in the Yemen war were sent back to their region of origin or to their home countries by the
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Estonia to Push the Security Council to Recommend UN’s Guterres to a Second Term
Eva-Maria Liimets, Estonia’s foreign minister since January 2021. Women also hold the posts of president and prime minister in the country, a
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A Peacemaker Revolts; Gaza in Ashes; the UN Security Council Moves Back Home
In Kigali Arena, President Emmanuel Macron of France and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda attending a quarterfinals’ game in the inaugural season of
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Nomination to Lead the UN’s Trade Agency Provokes a Power Play
Rebeca Grynspan, a Costa Rican economist and former vice president of her country, heads the Madrid-based Ibero-American General Secretariat. She has
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A Top German Court Toughens the Nation’s Climate Goals, Requiring Explicit Details
Climate change protests in Germany, 2019. The essayist explains how Germany’s Supreme Court has now added “teeth” to the country’s
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‘Peace Inc.’ Has Failed. This Expert Proposes a New Way to Peacemaking
Séverine Autesserre, a professor at Columbia University in New York City, photographed here, has a new book out, “The Frontlines of Peace.” It