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 ...

In 2017, United States President Trump said of refugees: “I hate taking these people. I guarantee you they are bad,” leaving ...

An event marking UN Day featured Annalena Baerbock, above, the president of the General Assembly, Oct. 24, 2025. She and the monthly rotating president of the Security Council will play a vital role ...

UN Security Council members approved a United States-led draft resolution to authorize an international stabilization force in Gaza, among other major steps, but China, above, and Russia abstained, ...

The Security Council adopted a US-led resolution to delist Ahmed al-Sharaa, now Syria’s president, who was included on the ISIL/Daesh and Al Qaeda sanctions, and Anas Hasan Khattab, now Syria’s ...

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 ...