A bastion of regional stability may be in peril. That is the number of Malian refugees in Burkina Faso. It is also the number of people that are at serious risk of starvation because the international ...

The United Nations and partners have launched an exercise to poll the world's citizens on their top priorities, policies and views as world leaders shape a global development agenda to replace the ...

It’s official. The United States is seeking to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO). Though this move had been rumored for a while, it was never abundantly clear that the Trump ...

It’s a new day in Damascus. But what about New York? For the last 14 years, the United Nations’ role in Syria has been relegated to the circumscribed (but vital) task of supporting the humanitarian ...

We cover a lot of ground in this week’s episode. Just hours before we recorded our conversation, the ICC issued formal arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav ...

Donald Trump has appointed New York Representative Elise Stefanik as his incoming Ambassador to the UN. Once widely seen as a rising Republican star, Stefanik at the time became the youngest woman ...

Republicans will soon control the House of Representatives, the Senate, and, of course, the White House. What does this Republican trifecta mean for the United Nations? Peter Yeo, Executive Vice ...

The Israeli Defense Forces have continued their deliberate attacks on UN peacekeeping positions in southern Lebanon, including an incident in which UNIFIL Blue Helmets were injured by white phosphorus ...

When President Biden approached the General Assembly dais, I expected a bit of a historical tour of his 50-year career in public service. He delivered on that. I also expected him to speak directly to ...

“A rare bright spot amid the disastrous conflict in the Gaza Strip.” That is how UNICEF described the successful first phase of a massive polio vaccination campaign in Gaza. Polio was confirmed three ...

The significance of the Summit of the Future is a somewhat tricky to convey. On the one hand, it is hard to overstate how much of a big deal the Summit of the Future for the United Nations, which ...

Kamala Harris had a thin foreign policy record before becoming Vice President in 2021. However, during her time as Vice President, she has had meaningful interactions with the UN system from which we ...