The Israeli Knesset marks National Memorial Day for the “October 7 Disaster and Swords of Iron War,” Knesset Plaza, Oct. 16, ...

Multiple security posts at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, including a main pedestrian entrance on 42nd ...

China and Russia have been actively trying to block United Nations scrutiny into violations through obscure budget talks, ...

Ungar of the Crisis Group said the ICSC annually makes salary adjustments based on the compensation of US civil servants, ...

As the United Nations turns 80, its challenge is not a shortage of reform ideas but the loss of constitutional balance. The ...

Prashanthi Krishnamoorthy, a diplomat from Sri Lanka, in a traditional sari to represent her country. Josiane Toundzi, who works for the UN, in a dress created by an African designer, Pathé'O.

Artists and art organizations used the city as a stage to address delegates attending the annual high-level week of the UN General Assembly. Photos and texts by Pau Torres Pagès The exhibition “UNSEEN ...

The struggling women, peace & security agenda; Russia, echoing US, damns the EU; breaking the SecGen glass ceiling, big peacekeeping cuts. Plus: Marking Oct. 7; Houthis kidnap more UN staff; ...

Jane Goodall, the primatologist and anthropologist, with Elie Wiesel, the Nobel laureate, at the UN, marking the International Day of Peace, Sept. 19, 2003. Goodall went on to become a UN Messenger of ...

Olukemi Ibikunle, a corrections officer from Lagos, Nigeria, has just won the UN Trailblazer Award for Women Justice and Corrections Officers for her current work as a peacekeeper in the Democratic ...

Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenia and former minister of state of the autonomous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, or Artsakh, is under arrest and detained by Azerbaijan, where he is undergoing a “show trial,” ...

A new vision for global leadership was the theme at a forum held at the UN, above, led by Estonia and the International Peace Institute, Sept. 23, 2025. Civil society groups and some countries are ...