He never reported what happened to him. Like many male survivors of sex harassment and abuse in Nigeria, he faced a culture ...

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Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 80,000 people and set development indicators back 69 years, the UN says. As of 2024 ...

A Trump administration plan to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-financed contraceptives, like the IUD above, could involve ...

Two weeks after the United States imposed sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the ...

Nearly four years have passed since Kabul fell. While some Afghan women judges have found refuge abroad, many remain in peril ...

Ulf Laessing, head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Sahel program and based in Bamako, told PassBlue: “The US seems to be ...

Finland Offers More Perks to Stop Its Declining Birth Rate. Women Shrug It Off - PassBlueFinnish lawmakers are pushing to increase the birth rate, but some have been criticized for aggressively ...

The Summit of the Future, General Assembly Hall, Sept. 23, 2024. The essayists write that the summit’s Pact for the Future can be a “proxy for the defense of reformed multilateralism” and help to ...

UN80 Plan Spells Doom for the Organization's Core Work, Insiders Say - PassBlueAt the same time, there’s consensus among member states and the broader UN community that the organization needs reform ...

The US mission to the UN said it cannot comment on “non-public diplomatic conversations.” A temporary ceasefire agreement being handled by Steve Witkoff, US envoy to the Mideast, is reportedly ...

The UN system is contending with “unprecedented scrutiny” as it deals with a major financial problem and plans for structural reforms. “Once a taboo subject,” the essayist writes, “even the potential ...