• Small states are making important contributions to international peace and economic development, despite comprising less than 1% of the world’s population, at 65 million people. • While small states ...

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Mariana Hernández Ampudia is a multimedia journalist from Mexico City, currently pursuing a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her reporting focuses on Latino ...

Arthur Bassas is a researcher and writer who graduated from St. Andrews in Scotland, majoring in international relations and terrorism. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and speaks English and French.

Chloé Cosson has a master's degree in cultural journalism from Sorbonne University, in Paris, and a B.A. in literature (writing and English studies) from Lumière University, Lyon. She was most ...

UN80 Plan Spells Doom for the Organization's Core Work, Insiders Say - PassBlueAt the same time, there’s consensus among member states and the broader UN community that the organization needs reform ...

A UN Development Program in India helps back a government project on a biodiversity conservation plan in the country. As the UN reform agenda is underway, the essayists say of its vast development ...

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 ...

In a new project, Médecins Sans Frontières is offering cash grants to civil-society organizations in South Darfur amid Sudan’s civil war, including a school-feeding program, above, as the presence of ...

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 ...

To rectify the underuse of the Charter tool, Pakistan will be holding a signature debate on July 22 on the peaceful settlement of disputes. The UN is often credited with preventing a third world war, ...

Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun of Myanmar, above, represents the democratic National Unity Government at the United Nations, but credentialing of his status was deferred last year by the General Assembly.