Every September, leaders from around the globe descend on New York to address the UN General Assembly. This year’s debate, ...

While various iterations of human protection and just war theories have existed across time and cultures, the massive ...

For more than five decades, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states have sought to turn their vulnerability as small states into collective strength. That effort is now under strain—perhaps like ...

A UN independent fact-finding mission to Sudan cited grave human rights violations and called for the immediate deployment of an independent and impartial force to protect civilians. Jenna Russo looks ...

The United Nations is facing its greatest financial crisis since the organization’s founding at the end of World War II. The effectiveness and efficiency of the UN system is under unprecedented ...

UN reform has been a perennial topic almost since 1945, but the issue has taken on added urgency amid attacks on the UN Charter, a major funding crisis, and multiple global emergencies. Once again, ...

World leaders gathered last week for the general debate and other high-level events to kick off the substantive work of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly. This high-level week comes at a ...

The UN80 initiative was launched in March 2025 by the secretary-general with the objective of creating a more “agile, integrated, and equipped” organization able to respond to today’s challenges amid ...

Last week, at least 15 people died in protests demanding United Nations (UN) peacekeepers leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The week before, the military junta ruling Mali halted troop ...

The “crisis of multilateralism” has become a common refrain among commentators, especially since 2016 when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and Donald Trump won the United States ...

Last night, the Trump administration finally announced the long-awaited results of its 180-day review of US membership in international organizations, conventions, and treaties. It announced that it ...

In March, the United Nations (UN) published its long-awaited Agenda for Protection, aimed at making protection a central and collective responsibility of the UN system. It is the first UN policy ...