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

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” ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Reporters photographing the start of a Security Council meeting on upholding the UN Charter, May 26, 2026. The essayists ask whether the UN’s momentous Pact for the Future can m ...

The Security Council, above, will soon begin holding private interviews with the candidates vying to lead the UN as secretary ...

GENEVA — Since 1998, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, has been based here in the historic Palais Wilson, formerly the building that housed the League of ...

Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, Guyana’s envoy to the UN, faced a range of questions from member states and civil society in her bid to be the next secretary-general, competing with six other candidates.

María Fernanda Espinosa, a UN secretary-general nominee, took part in a General Assembly informal dialogue at UN headquarters in New York City, June 15, 2026. A former defense minister and foreign ...