It’s official. The United States is seeking to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO). Though this move had been ...

Five members of the Security Council rotating off and five new ones rotating in. How will the new composition of the Security Council shape its work in the coming year, and who are the key new ...

Mark Leon Goldberg is the executive editor of UN Dispatch ...

It’s a new day in Damascus. But what about New York? For the last 14 years, the United Nations’ role in Syria has been relegated to the circumscribed (but vital) task of supporting the humanitarian ...

It’s a new day in Damascus. But what about New York? For the last 14 years, the United Nations’ role ...

Listeners will no doubt remember the devastating Ebola outbreak of 2014–2016. More than 28,600 people were infected, and 11,325 people... Republicans will soon control the House of Representatives, ...

If we accept the fact that UNAMID is a failure, then we need to ask a number of questions as to why. Questions that produce answers that go beyond the obvious point that mandates are too convoluted ...

We need to diversify how we fund the global fight against diseases like Malaria. The term of art for this is "innovative financing for development." The UN has a laboratory for this named Unitaid, and ...

Here in the USA, Isaac has mostly been met with chortles (from Democrats) about how the storm may disrupt the Republican convention in Tampa, Florida next week. But this is a storm to be taken very ...

With Richard Holbrooke's passing, there's a great deal of discussion about the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnian and Herzegovina, better known as the Dayton Accords. Given the fact that ...

New platforms to pay individual medical costs.

SG: The SG briefed the SC today from Ramallah where he reiterated his message from today’s earlier press conference in Tel Aviv with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to: “Stop fighting. Start talking.