2+ hour, 44+ min ago  (434+ words) So, Roosevelt began to build up hedges against any future worldwide collapses. Together with his wartime allies, he created the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to buttress the global economy. Then, in San Francisco in 1945, he founded the…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (332+ words) This Week @UN: African Union snubs Macky Sall; Bachelet & Grossi open Sec Gen race dialogues, followed by Grynspan & Sall; Guterres's Hormuz plan stalled. Plus: More peacekeepers killed in Lebanon; shifting, dangerous migration routes; IDF desecrate statue of Jesus; child victims…...

3+ week, 23+ hour ago  (435+ words) This Week @UN: Where's the Haiti force? ; Mamdani stops by; Bahrain endures US-Israeli/Iran war. Plus: 3 peacekeepers killed in South Lebanon; UNRWA boss moves on; UN envoy for Sudan's listening tour; new Sec Gen candidate? ; new UN envoy for Mideast…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (582+ words) The world is watching as we are on the brink of a'possible'third world war and multiple genocides, including in Myanmar, Sudan and Palestine. Having learned the terrible lessons of WWII and the Holocaust, the UN was founded precisely to avoid…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1692+ words) As the attacks instigated by the United States and Israel continue against Iran, which is retaliating fiercely, Bahrain is stepping up efforts in the Council " with backing by a nonmember but a close neighbor, the United Arab Emirates " to build…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (558+ words) The United Nations is stepping into the multifront war in the Mideast as threats to global food security mount due to the virtual closure of one of the world's most-critical maritime chokepoints, a month into the United States-Israeli attacks on…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (412+ words) An average of 87 children are being killed or injured every day in the mutlifront conflict in the Mideast since the United States-Israeli joint military action in Iran started on Feb. 28, says a senior official of Unicef. Ted Chaiban, the deputy…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (388+ words) Far from headlines, the United Nations Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations has the power of picking which civil society voices get heard at the organization. The election of the committee's newest 19 members is slated to occur on April 8. As a subsidiary…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (535+ words) This Week @UN: Haitians stuck in Mexico; seeking the right UN Sec Gen; US battles women's rights; Security Council condemns Iran; triumphing over sexual harassment. Plus: Mass displacement in Lebanon; Sec Gen in T'rkiye & Lebanon; Gaza/West Bank/Israel; drone…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (512+ words) Although the United Nations is increasingly attacked for being ineffective on the world stage, some of its biggest failures are internal, especially when it fails to protect its own staff from sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment is not…...