Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica maintained a firm lead in the latest informal straw poll held by the United Nations Security ...
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 ...
In the ramp-up to the United Nations annual climate change conference in November, alarming and under-reported statistics on ...
The United Nations Security Council's most recent straw poll, held on Oct. 16, showed both a possible breakthrough and the ...
As a candidate, Nusseibeh will undoubtedly face scrutiny about the Emirates’ human rights record both in the country and ...
Just hours before Lana Nusseibeh of the United Arab Emirates was scheduled to defend her candidacy for the post of United ...
About 32 million acres of South Pacific seabed off American Samoa could be auctioned in November in what would be the world’s ...
US Ambassador Mike Waltz led a panel event at the UN on the status of human rights in Cuba, Oct. 19, 2026, about a week ...
Dulcie Leimbach is a co-founder, with Barbara Crossette, of PassBlue. For PassBlue and other publications, Leimbach has reported from New York and overseas from West Africa (Burkina Faso and Mali) and ...
Results of UN Secretary-General Straw Polls - PassBlue For straw polls on July 30 and Aug 21 and Sept 18, 2026. Click on the date in the upper chart to see results for each poll The lower chart ...
Children from a Finnish samba school performing at a festival in Helsinki, the capital, 2022. A stunning drop in the country’s birth rate has inspired the government to increase its already-generous ...
Zénon Mukongo Ngay, ambassador of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the UN, July 1, 2026. As rotating president of the Security Council this month, his country will hold debates on advancing an ...