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

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

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

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

Ninety-one member states in the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution demanding that Russia “immediately, ...

Ambassador Samuel Zbogar of Slovenia to the UN and rotating president of the Security Council for December. His country is ...

Ambassador Michael Imran Kanu of Sierra Leone chairs the UN Security Council in November. He said that his country, nearing the end of its two-year term, has been ambitious in defending international ...

Results of PassBlue's Survey: 'Vote for the Next UN Secretary-General' - PassBlueThe results are in from our recent informal readers’ survey on who should be the next UN secretary-general for the five ...

A walkout by some UN security officials on Oct. 27, protesting possible cuts to their employment benefits, left the UN’s main entrance for diplomats and other officials closed, while other security ...

The UN General Assembly, Sept. 23, 2025. The essayists say the debate over the role of the United States in the UN has become a “proxy for larger disputes about sovereignty, funding and influence.” ...

An international human rights organization has released a report documenting how China, Russia and a handful of other countries are using their control of UN budget decisions to derail the human ...

UN Relief Chief Tom Fletcher, right, visited the Gaza strip for the first time, on Oct. 17, to assess the humanitarian situation in the ceasefire. Here, he stops at Castle Bakery, a World Food Program ...