Damilola Banjo is an award-winning staff reporter for PassBlue who has covered a wide range of topics, from Africa-centered stories to gender equality to UN peacekeeping and US-UN relations. She also ...

Rebecca Cheptegui, a 33-year-old Ugandan marathoner and recent summer Olympian, died on Sept. 5, 2024, after she was allegedly lit on fire by a former partner in Kenya, where she lived. The UN ...

Quarantined and Stalked by Covid-19, UN Field Staff Live With Fear and Anxiety - PassBlueKelly Clements, the deputy high commissioner for the UN Refugee Agency and from the United States, calls the ...

Leadership of UN Missions: Halting Progress on the Road to Gender Parity - PassBlueConcrete action may have helped enlarge a pool of female candidates that had been constrained by institutional ...

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 ...

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.

Two weeks after President Trump fired off a characteristically intemperate letter to the director-general of the World Health Organization, accusing him of incompetence in dealing with the Covid-19 ...

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil with President Donald Trump of the United States, March 19, 2019, in the White House. Both men are scheduled to attend the annual opening session of the UN General ...

A United Nations official showing an empty ballot box to a delegate as the General Assembly voted on the 18 new members of the Human Rights Council, Oct. 14, 2021. Among the elected to the three-year ...

In Latin America, Panama Battles the Coronavirus Between Two Oceans - PassBlueOur home quickly turned from an office for two — as my husband and I work from home — to a home for five, three of them ...

In fact, it took an intervention from numerous governments and prominent people, including Margot Wallstrom, a former Swedish foreign minister and the first UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict, to ...

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 ...