Jan 24, 2025 · PassBlue is a nonprofit, independent women-led media company that covers foreign affairs and the United Nations with a focus on women’s issues and the impact of major world powers on ordinary citizens.

PassBlue is an award-winning, independent, women-led nonprofit news company that closely covers the US-UN relationship, women’s issues, human rights, peacekeeping and other urgent global matters playing out in the world body. We report from our base in the UN press corps in New York City and are read throughout the US and Canada and overseas: London, Geneva, Paris, Berlin, Delhi, Nairobi ...

6 days ago · Tuesday, Jan. 28 • Spokesperson’s briefing: Guterres held separate calls with President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwandan President Paul Kagame to discuss the M23 militia’s takeover of a key city, Goma, in eastern Congo this week, saying Rwanda needed to “cease support to the [Rwandan-backed] …

Jan 24, 2025 · Overall UN Person of the Year. OVERALL UN PERSON OF THE YEAR: Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories. FIRST RUNNER-UP: Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) SECOND RUNNER-UP: António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General ...

Jan 24, 2025 · US and Arab media reports have converged on the common elements of the deal that took effect on Jan. 19, 2025. From A-Z, they are: A three-phase deal mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the US. Both sides are to cease military operations initially for six weeks, during which Hamas will release 33 hostages and Israel will release 100 Palestinian detainees. Crossing at Rafah to open on Day 7 of Phase 1 ...

Jan 24, 2025 · The joint winners of the silver Elizabeth Neuffer memorial prize, awarded at the UN Correspondents Association gala, Dec. 13, in New York City, from left: Jessica Le Masurier of France 24; Fatma Khaled, freelancer; Damilola Banjo and Dulcie Leimbach of PassBlue; with John Penney, PassBlue’s managing editor and staff photographer.

2 days ago · Fu Cong, China’s ambassador to the UN and president of the Security Council for February, told reporters on Feb. 3, 2025, referring to the new United States envoy, Elise Stefanik, “I do hope that I can work with the new PR of the US in building bridges for our two countries.”

4 days ago · Meanwhile, other actors are on the rise in Africa: the United Arab Emirates, Türkiye, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, in addition to China. Diplomacy and pressure seem to be having little impact on other, similar crises: Sudan, Myanmar, Gaza and Ukraine partly because of a lack of will and because peace diplomacy seems to be more difficult in a multipolar, inward-turned world.

Jan 24, 2025 · PassBlue is a nonprofit, independent women-led media company that covers foreign affairs and the United Nations with a focus on women’s issues and the impact of major world powers on ordinary citizens.

Sep 23, 2024 · The UN cannot do its most important job (ending war) because the basic UN Charter is too fatally flawed. The Pact for the Future provides cosmetic changes but the underlying core problems with the obsolete Charter remain so that wars aren’t prevented or stopped, justice is mocked, and poverty remains too worldwide.