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HAPPY JULY 4TH to all our readers across the world! The PassBlue team is celebrating Independence Day in the USA, but we never stop forgetting that our work is to push for transparency and accountability of governments and officials everywhere: …
This Week @UN: Budget cuts hit Human Rights Council; French-Saudi 2-state solution debate: dead or alive?; massive UN housing project failure in Kenya; strategizing UN reform. Plus: Nigeria; Gaza; Israel-Iran; sexual violence in wars; refugees’ big day. Please follow us …
This Week @UN: Merge the UN refugee and migration agencies?; Israeli “accountability” in Gaza; Sebastião Salgado tribute. Plus: Gaza flotilla; High Seas Treaty; Pope Leo XIV; Israel pounds Iran; 2-state solution conference delayed; Mike Waltz nomination. Follow us on Blue …
The United Nations General Assembly will vote soon on a draft resolution that calls on countries to take steps to force Israel to comply with international law and the UN Charter in its war on Hamas. The text also calls …
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, …
Some good news: The winners of the 2025 UN Nelson Mandela Prize are Brenda Reynolds, a social worker of Saulteaux heritage supporting the Indigenous communities in Canada; and Kennedy Odede, founder of Shining Hope for Communities, a Kenyan group working …
The United States is pulling all its weight to ensure there is no new United Nations resolution on Gaza, sources close to the negotiations on a draft text told PassBlue. The Security Council is negotiating a text, led by the …
When United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced in a post on X that he had “proudly ENDED” the Women, Peace and Security Act of 2017 by his department, he sparked immediate backlash from women’s rights advocates worldwide. Indeed, …
Pending a United States Senate confirmation hearing that some Democrats have promised would be brutal, Mike Waltz, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, is one leg toward New York City as the American ambassador to the United …
Bolivia’s delegation to the United Nations circulated a letter to fellow member states announcing the nomination of the country’s Vice President David Choquehuanca as a candidate to succeed António Guterres as secretary-general of the UN. Guterres’s term finishes on Dec. …
The United States is clear that it will not support the United Nations’ proposed funding model for the African Union security force in Somalia, placing a large question mark over the international mission to contain the jihadist Al Shabab group. …
This Week @UN: Gambians’ journey to justice; postwar Gaza with Gazans; France helms the UN Security Council amid global turmoil. Plus: Gaza killing fields; cholera in Haiti; Syria surviving; slashing UNOCHA workforce. Follow us on Blue Sky, Twitter (X), Facebook, …
This Week @UN: Beware Trump’s UN plan; Bucha’s revival; Myanmar quake; aid workers slaughtered in Gaza. Plus: Myanmar; Gaza; Kenyan peacekeeper; Sudan; UN tour guides go Swedish; Francesca Albanese. Follow us on Blue Sky, X, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Got …
Even as a major earthquake struck Myanmar last week, killing thousands of people, and as powerful aftershocks shook huge swathes of the country, the Burmese junta air force was flying over Sagaing, the epicenter of the disaster, dropping bombs on …
