Maria Ressa and Yoshua Bengio, co-chairs of the UN’s Scientific Panel on AI, introducing its first global report at the ...

Zénon Mukongo Ngay, ambassador of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the UN, July 1, 2026. As rotating president of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, from Guyana, was nominated by Guyana on 15 June. She is currently the Permanent Representative of Guyana to the UN. Her vision statement spans seven pages and is available ...

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.