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The US Wants to Reshape the UN’s Social Agenda. It’s Doing So Alone.

These positions are part of wide-ranging no votes cast by the US in the last year against equality and other social goals, ...
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[UN: Dec. 5] Security Council Visits Lebanon & Syria, Unpaid UN Dues Piling Up & Lots More

[UN: Dec. 5] Security Council Visits Lebanon & Syria, Unpaid UN Dues Piling Up & Lots More - PassBlue ...
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Türkiye to Open an UNRWA Office in Ankara as the Agency Confronts Operating Crises

Türkiye has been providing financial support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near ...
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UN Persons of the Year for 2025: Readers’ Survey

PassBlue is proud to announce our UN Persons of the Year for 2025! -- Here are the results of our readers’ votes, reflecting, ...
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In Sudan’s Hell, a Glimmer of Light From Charity Volunteers

Almost three years into Sudan’s devastating war, estimates put the death count at over 150,000, more than 21 million people ...
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Special Report: Al Thani of Qatar; France, Brazil, Ukraine, Türkiye, South Africa

The emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, fought against recent verbal and physical attacks by Israel and sought to rebuild the image of his Mideast country as crucial to regional and international ...
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Results of PassBlue’s Survey: ‘Vote for the Next UN Secretary-General’

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 ...
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Small Nation, Big Dreams: Sierra Leone Learns Tough Lessons in the Security Council

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 ...
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Damilola Banjo

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 ...
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Palantir, Seemingly Everywhere All at Once

The global reach of the US tech company Palantir extends to influential roles with the American government, including its support of wars against Russia, Palestine and Iran, as well as contracts with ...
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Who Could Be the Special Envoy for Future Generations?

Penguins at the Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva, Antarctica, where UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited in 2023 to see the effects of the climate crisis in the continent. He will name ...
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The UN’s Counterterrorism Office Keeps Growing, but Is Its Strategy Working?

The UN Office of Counterterrorism is growing its centers overseas for various reasons, including efficiency, it says, but some civil society experts can’t make sense of the expanding network. They ...