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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Opposition Grows Among Countries as Seabed-Mining Efforts Push Ahead - PassBlueThe two-year deadline was triggered in the summer of 2021 after Nauru — an 8.1 square-mile island in the southwestern ...