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November 3, 2026

Turkey Enters the Race to Lead the United Nations

Turkey has entered the increasingly contested race to lead the United Nations, nominating veteran diplomat Feridun Sinirlioglu for the organisation’s top position as negotiations over the successor to Secretary-General António Guterres remain

Geopolitics/World

UN biodiversity summit ends with limited agreements as key funding decisions are deferred

The United Nations biodiversity conference in Armenia ended with a series of limited agreements after overnight negotiations, with governments acknowledging the need to accelerate conservation efforts and address a widening funding gap but failing to establish clear mechanisms to achieve

November 2, 2026

Western Sahara Faces a Dangerous New Chapter

Diplomacy/Geopolitics

The United Nations mission in Western Sahara is facing an abrupt end after 35 years without achieving the central purpose for which it was

Israel’s Killing of Journalists and Control of Information Under Scrutiny at UN

Geopolitics/World

Nearly 300 journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023, while more than 400 others have been wounded, according to Francesca Albanese,

Achieving full gender equality is still centuries away – UN

September 7, 2022

Human Rights

At the current rate of progress, it may take close to 300 years to achieve full gender equality, the Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): The Gender Snapshot 2022 shows. Global

Sanctions are bringing suffering and death – UN Special Rapporteur

August 18, 2020

Interviews

The use of economic sanctions has throughout history been an integral component of the foreign policy of most nation-states. As a blunt tool of diplomacy, the concept of sanctions has been around