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.

Fiona Curtin is the Communications Adviser of FUNDS, helping to coordinate the project's communications and social media activities. She worked for more than 10 years at the UN and in the NGO sector ...

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Chloé Cosson has a master's degree in cultural journalism from Sorbonne University, in Paris, and a B.A. in literature (writing and English studies) from Lumière University, Lyon. She was most ...

Afghans Who Work for the UN in Their Country Say They Fear for Their Lives [Updated] - PassBlueAlso on Friday, Dujarric gave updates on the work of a few UN agencies in Afghanistan. The WHO has staff ...

Afghan women resisting the Taliban’s repression, above. The essayist writes that although many women judges, like her, have escaped Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of August 2021, 68 women ...

A French paratrooper in Algeria, 1958, left, wearing the same kind of fatigues that white mercenaries had on near the crash site of the plane carrying UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, shown here ...

75 Years In, Does the UN Still Matter? Our New Podcast Episode - PassBlueAs Secretary-General António Guterres put it: “The world is not yet multipolar, it’s essentially chaotic.” Although it is ...

President Vladimir Putin could face a special tribunal for the crime of aggression in Ukraine. But a core group of advocates pushing for creating such a court is divided on what it should look like.

Mark Lowcock, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, visiting a camp in South Kordofan, Sudan. Lowcock, who recently resigned to return home to England, is the ...

An Irish-American Idealist: Samantha Power - PassBlueShe also initiated the Council’s first discussion of North Korea’s “brutal” treatment of its own people and helped to push through several other ...