The UN entity is playing a role in enabling the US program to deport migrants and asylum seekers to third countries, including to places that do not offer basic human rights protections. Some of the ...

It turns out that some nominees have dual citizenship, which is not a technicality that prevents their campaigns from continuing but raises questions among member states. (Sall has one citizenship, ...

Chandramouli Ramanathan, the UN’s controller, told reporters on July 1, 2026, that the organization has averted a “crash” related to its financial situation by temporarily overhauling a decades-old, ...

Espinosa proposes a Prevention and Early Action Hub reporting directly to the Secretary-General, with integrated early warning and rapid political engagement capacity. She champions a “local first” ...

Recently, the Secretary-General candidates participated in General Assembly interactive dialogues to explain their visions for the United Nations. An expert group of 15 NGOs share what the candidates ...

Rodrigues Birkett’s prevention approach is cautious, pragmatic and largely deferential to member states. She has described the Secretary-General’s role as providing “objecti ...

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, from Ecuador and former President of the UNGA (2018–2019) was nominated by Antigua and Barbuda on 11 May. Her General Assembly hearing took place on 15 June. Ms.