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Stéphanie Fillion is a New York-based reporter specializing in foreign affairs and human rights who has been writing for PassBlue regularly for a year, including co-producing UN-Scripted, a new ...
“We Can’t Breathe” protesters marched during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 20, 2020. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a global election monitoring group, is ...
Frances Zainoeddin of the International Federation on Ageing bemoaned the slow gains made by the United Nations General Assembly to ensure the legal protection of older people’s human rights, ...
Olof Skoog, a Swede who has been the European Union’s ambassador to the UN since 2019, in his office in New York City. What does he think is promising for the globe in 2021? The Covid-19 vaccine ...
Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, right, and Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, left, meeting in Tehran, Aug. 25, 2020. Iran agreed to allow the agency access to ...
Secretary of State Pompeo and Nikki Haley, the US envoy to the UN at the time, announcing the US withdrawal from the Human Rights Council, June 19, 2018. The move by the US, the author says, has ...
President Vladimir Putin could face a special tribunal for the crime of aggression in Ukraine. But a core group of advocates pushing for creating such a court is divided on what it should look like.
The Covid-19 pandemic’s effects on poor countries is hitting children hard, forcing some of them to work while navigating unsavory home lives. In wars, children’s status is worse than ever. Here, in ...
Congolese Refugees' UN Grants Offer Grocery Lifelines for Poor Zimbabweans - PassBlueApproximately 7,500 people live in the UN-operated Tongogara refugee camp, coming mostly from the Democratic ...
From a Royal Palace to Ivy Halls: A Dissident's View of the Arab Spring - PassBlueOver the years, as he became more outspoken in his advocacy for reform, relations with his family deteriorated. Twenty ...
At a clinic at La Fossette Health Center in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, nurses vaccinate babies, among other health care services. The pandemic could further erode Haiti’s stability, experts say, given its ...