The United Nations is hosting a “Summit of the Future” in September during the annual opening the UN General Assembly. If all goes according to plan, world leaders will endorse a so-called “Pact for ...

When President Biden approached the General Assembly dais, I expected a bit of a historical tour of his 50-year career in public service. He delivered on that. I also expected him to speak directly to ...

Thousands of delegates gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, last week for the UN Civil Society Conference. The gathering was dedicated to the upcoming Summit of the Future, a major UN conference in September ...

Donald Trump has appointed New York Representative Elise Stefanik as his incoming Ambassador to the UN. Once widely seen as a rising Republican star, Stefanik at the time became the youngest woman ...

The most current 25 United Nations’ and world news related episodes of Global Dispatches Podcast interviews and To Save Us From Hell Podcast discussions.

As we enter 2024, the conflict in Sudan is shaping up to be one of the worst crises in the world. Nearly 7 million people have been displaced, hunger is widespread and a hallmark of this civil war has ...

The accusations that 12 UNRWA staff members participated in the October 7 terrorist attacks are serious and credible. The New York Times obtained a dossier containing evidence purported by the ...

A new month means a new president of the UN Security Council. On July 1, Russia took the helm of the most powerful body in the United Nations system and announced that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ...

I have been covering the International Criminal Court as a journalist for nearly as long as the Court’s been in existence. And as regular newsletter readers will know, I’ve been expecting this ...

We cover a lot of ground in this week’s episode. Just hours before we recorded our conversation, the ICC issued formal arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav ...

Our Kamala Harris discussion is in our third segment. We kick off at the Security Council, where an emergency meeting on Ukraine led to a revealing clash between the Russian and Ukrainian ambassadors.

Kamala Harris had a thin foreign policy record before becoming Vice President in 2021. However, during her time as Vice President, she has had meaningful interactions with the UN system from which we ...