Maurizio Guerrero is an award-winning journalist who for 10 years was the bureau chief in New York City and the United Nations of the largest news-wire service in Latin America, the Mexican-based ...

Stephen Browne spent 33 years working in the UN development system and is a visiting lecturer at universities in the UK, Switzerland and India.

Fueled by a feeling that they were sidelined, civil society members deplored a “lack of ambition,” they say, that could be ...

The United Nations Security Council is being increasingly criticized for failing to bring peace to many conflicts raging ...

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 ...

Arthur Bassas is a researcher and writer who graduated from St. Andrews in Scotland, majoring in international relations and terrorism. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and speaks English and French.

Arshi Qureshi is a freelance journalist based in New York City, focusing on politics and social issues. She holds a master's degree in political journalism from the Columbia University School of ...

Melanne Verveer, center, a founder with Hillary Clinton of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, says that the announcement by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to end the WPS ...

Fannie Munlin, the chair of the NGO Executive Committee, the liaison between the civil society world and the UN. She manages the needs and demands of 1,600 nongovernmental organizations, including ...

Through a combination of critical mass, quality ideas and deft multilateral diplomacy, civil society can team up with champion governments and dynamic leaders in global and regional institutions to ...

• A Zambian peacekeeper was killed by unidentified armed men on June 20, 2025, as they attacked a patrol of Minusca.