“A Digital Future For All” event during the UN’s Summit of the Future, Sept. 21, 2025. The essayist, a former communications director for the world body, warns about its growing reliance on AI in its ...

President William Ruto of Kenya, center, touring new offices at the UN’s compound in Nairobi, July 2025. The UN is expanding ...

The essayists write that at the seventh session of the UN Environment Assembly conference this week, to be held in Nairobi, ...

That is why the time has come — yet again — to elect a woman, a woman from Eastern Europe, as the next secretary-general.

UN restrooms in the Secretariat building at headquarters in New York City. The organization will no longer stock restrooms in ...

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday demanded by a wide margin that Russia immediately and unconditionally return all Ukrainian children who have been forcibly transferred or deported since the start ...

The family of Olga Ramos, including daughters, grandsons and granddaughters, all migrants from Venezuela, crossing the Darién Gap, a remote, roadless area in the rain forest between Panama and ...

The next UN high commissioner for refugees should be a woman, the essayists write, because leadership in multilateral institutions “should mirror the societies they serve,” yet women remain shockingly ...

Women making and selling what is called ecological charcoal, near Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The charcoal residue is used for fuel and is said to emit no ...

Ambassador Samuel Zbogar of Slovenia to the UN and rotating president of the Security Council for December. His country is advocating for a “balance between transparency and the proper process” in ...

Sviatlana Tsiknouskaya, the pro-democracy, opposition leader of Belarus, leaving flowers at the Shrine of Remembrance War Memorial in Melbourne to honor Belarusians who fought with Australian troops ...