Maria Ressa and Yoshua Bengio, co-chairs of the UN’s Scientific Panel on AI, introducing its first global report at the ...

Zénon Mukongo Ngay, ambassador of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the UN, July 1, 2026. As rotating president of the ...

Bruno Rodríguez, Cuba’s foreign minister, spoke for 25 minutes to the General Assembly, likening the US fuel blockade against his country to a naval blockade. Tempers flared in the hours-long debate ...

The UN entity is playing a role in enabling the US program to deport migrants and asylum seekers to third countries, including to places that do not offer basic human rights protections. Some of the ...

GENEVA — Since 1998, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, has been based here in the historic Palais Wilson, formerly the building that housed the League of ...

It turns out that some nominees have dual citizenship, which is not a technicality that prevents their campaigns from continuing but raises questions among member states. (Sall has one citizenship, ...

Chandramouli Ramanathan, the UN’s controller, told reporters on July 1, 2026, that the organization has averted a “crash” related to its financial situation by temporarily overhauling a decades-old, ...

Espinosa proposes a Prevention and Early Action Hub reporting directly to the Secretary-General, with integrated early warning and rapid political engagement capacity. She champions a “local first” ...

Recently, the Secretary-General candidates participated in General Assembly interactive dialogues to explain their visions for the United Nations. An expert group of 15 NGOs share what the candidates ...

Rodrigues Birkett’s prevention approach is cautious, pragmatic and largely deferential to member states. She has described the Secretary-General’s role as providing “objecti ...

Secretary-General António Guterres (on screen) briefing reporters on the Mideast, April 30, 2026. He has proposed a way to help the UN from being forced to turning out its lights this summer amid a ...

The Security Council, above, will soon begin holding private interviews with the candidates vying to lead the UN as secretary-general as of Jan. 1, 2027. But it is no secret, the essayists write, that ...