The UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict was established in 1999 following the publication, in 1996, of a report by Graça Machel entitled the “Impact of Armed Conflict on Children”. Her report … Continue reading →
The following interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 28 January 2025, the day before an Israeli law came into force banning UNRWA, the UN relief agency, from operating in Gaza, a Palestinian territory which Israel illegally occupies. Evan … Continue reading →
Palestine and the UN have been inextricably linked since the organization was founded. UN departments have been criticizing Israel’s actions for over a year. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese even wrote two reports documenting the genocide in Gaza. Despite that, … Continue reading →
Article written by UNA Coventry volunteer Estelle Marufu, Sociology undergraduate at Coventry University. If you’re anything like me, the United Nations (UN) might have first entered your consciousness passively, catching glimpses on the news as a child. It might have … Continue reading →
On 28 September 2024 Richard Caplan, Professor of International Relations from the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, delivered a presentation to Warwick District United Nations Association entitled A Case for the UN Transitional Authority for Gaza? … Continue reading →
In her report in March 2024 entitled “Anatomy of a genocide”, Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, concluded that there were “reasonable grounds to believe that the … Continue reading →
On 9 October 2024 United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Tom Fletcher of the United Kingdom as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). He succeeds Martin Griffiths … Continue reading →
As a result of the Summit of the Future held in September 2024, world leaders adopted a Pact for the Future that includes a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations. The Pact covers a broad range of … Continue reading →
PassBlue is an independent, women-led non-profit multimedia news company that closely covers the US-UN relationship, women’s issues, human rights, peacekeeping and other urgent global matters playing out in the world body. We report from our base in the UN press … Continue reading →
This opinion essay by Mona Ali Khalil was originally published on 5 September 2024 by PassBlue. Israeli newspapers recently reported that the country’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the former Palestinian Minister for Foreign Affairs Nasser Al-Kidwa “agreed to work together … Continue reading →