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The United Nations Secretariat hosted more than a hundred of its resident coordinators for an annual gathering that some insiders say cost the organization about a million dollars. The event was held at the headquarters in New York City as …
AWAZA, Turkmenistan — The world’s 32 landlocked developing countries of 570 million people share many major problems, but there’s one they talk about the most: the lack of direct access to the sea. “It is not the fault of those …
This Week @UN: Saving UNRWA; free speech/hate speech; Waltz weaponizes US aid; Pakistan’s push for Kashmir vote. Plus: SDG gains/laggards; big-tech protests @UN; Syria infighting; Israel bans swimming in Gaza; Colombia’s rocky peace; nukes’ effects. Stay on top of the …
Advocates for gender equality and global financial reforms from around the world were disappointed with the Financing for Development pronouncement even before the United Nations international forum started this week in Seville, Spain. Fueled by a feeling that they were …
Send us your tips: passblue1@gmail.com This Week @UN: Popular/unpopular UN reform ideas; Guyana loves this Afro-Caribbean alliance; remodeling UN development; Saudi-French push for 2-state solution (video). Plus: Yemen; Sudan; Gaza; killed UN staff; US bans. Stay abreast on Blue Sky, …
Recent assaults by the Trump administration and other United Nations member states on multilateralism in general and development assistance in particular have attracted attention, but fault lines were apparent from the start. Sir John Boyd Orr, the Nobel laureate elected …
Welcome to This Week @UN: Rwanda’s chaos in Goma; UNDP cat in West Africa; China heads Security Council; young diplomats support the UN. Plus: Congo; Haiti; Gaza; AI; Trump’s trampling. • Follow us on Blue Sky, Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram …
A mercy trip by a senior United Nations Development Program staffer in West Africa to rush her cat to a vet about 185 miles and two countries away sparked an angry denunciation that led to a formal inquiry by the …
Multilateralism is retreating and the United Nations is no longer effective in any of its major functions. The fault is with both the First UN of member states — and particularly the veto wielding P3 of Russia, China and the …
Last year, Ecuador was the recipient of the largest debt-for-nature swap in history when it received a $656 million loan to help finance the preservation of the Galápagos Islands in perpetuity in exchange for the forgiveness of $1.7 billion in …
Since the release of the 1993 Human Development Report, the powerful notion of human security has evolved, incorporating principles of justice while elevating nature and technology’s roles in protecting and enriching human life. Still, the United Nations report’s original insight …
Menghestab Haile, the resident director of the World Food Program in the Southern Africa bureau, has resigned suddenly, after two years in the position. He was based in Johannesburg. Sources informed PassBlue that Haile was forced to leave, effective immediately, …
LAGOS, Nigeria — Venture capital funding is shrinking globally, but experts are optimistic that a new $1 billion investment fund created by the United Nations Development Program for the tech ecosystem in Africa could protect startups there from declining investments. …
Tjada D’Oyen McKenna is the first woman — and Black — to head the international charity Mercy Corps, an organization based in the United States that she has led since 2020. She has moved in and out of the public …
‘Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is’: Financing the SDGs — The poor progress of the Sustainable Development Goals continued to be a common theme through the middle of the General Assembly high-level week. On Wednesday, heads of state, ministers …
