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Damilola Banjo is an award-winning staff reporter for PassBlue who has covered a wide range of topics, from Africa-centered stories to gender equality to UN peacekeeping and US-UN relations. She also ...

Rwanda defense forces, above, have helped to liberate a key region in northeastern Mozambique from armed militias, after Russia’s Wagner Group failed to do so. But can Rwanda’s troops defeat the ...

A resident at a church in Goris, Armenia, 2023. When war hit the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan that year and 100,000 or so ethnic Armenians from the area streamed through the small ...

The Obscure Organization Powering a Race to Mine the Bottom of the Seas - PassBlue“What the ocean gives, it can take away,” Thomson writes. “While our understanding of the ocean’s properties is still ...

Max-Otto Baumann is a senior research for the German Development Institute, a federally-financed think tank based in Bonn. His work focuses on institutional and political aspects of UN development ...

Afghan women resisting the Taliban’s repression, above. The essayist writes that although many women judges, like her, have escaped Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of August 2021, 68 women ...

Michèle Griffin, director of the Summit of the Future for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, in her office, New York City, May 15, 2024. “This is a marathon, not a sprint,” she says, referring to ...

Anton Ferreira worked for 23 years as a correspondent and desk editor at Reuters. He started in Hong Kong and later worked long-term assignments in the Mideast, Latin America, New York City, ...

Sex Workers Welcome UN Experts' Backing to Decriminalize the Industry - PassBlueMost important, the working group emphasizes that decriminalization does not impede national efforts to mitigate human ...

Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Turk opened the 59th session of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council amid decreasing financial budgets ...

Kiribati May Be Surrounded by Water, but There's Not Enough to Drink - PassBlueClose encounters with the equator Kiribati consists of 33 coral islands divided among three island groups: the Gilbert ...