Jan 17, 2025 · PassBlue is a nonprofit, independent women-led media company that covers foreign affairs and the United Nations with a focus on women’s issues and the impact of major world powers on ordinary citizens.

PassBlue is an award-winning, independent, women-led nonprofit news company that closely covers the US-UN relationship, women’s issues, human rights, peacekeeping and other urgent global matters playing out in the world body. We report from our base in the UN press corps in New York City and are read throughout the US and Canada and overseas: London, Geneva, Paris, Berlin, Delhi, Nairobi ...

Dec 20, 2024 · The joint winners of the silver Elizabeth Neuffer memorial prize, awarded at the UN Correspondents Association gala, Dec. 13, in New York City, from left: Jessica Le Masurier of France 24; Fatma Khaled, freelancer; Damilola Banjo and Dulcie Leimbach of PassBlue; with John Penney, PassBlue’s managing editor and staff photographer.

Dec 23, 2024 · Overall UN Person of the Year. OVERALL UN PERSON OF THE YEAR: Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories. FIRST RUNNER-UP: Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) SECOND RUNNER-UP: António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General ...

Dec 11, 2024 · PassBlue is a nonprofit, independent women-led media company that covers foreign affairs and the United Nations with a focus on women’s issues and the impact of major world powers on ordinary citizens.

Jan 20, 2025 · US and Arab media reports have converged on the common elements of the deal that took effect on Jan. 19, 2025. From A-Z, they are: A three-phase deal mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the US. Both sides are to cease military operations initially for six weeks, during which Hamas will release 33 hostages and Israel will release 100 Palestinian detainees. Crossing at Rafah to open on Day 7 of Phase 1 ...

Oct 4, 2024 · Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric also noted the UN’s “concern” over Yemeni Houthis’ missile and drone attacks on the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Ashkelon on Sept. 27 and Israel’s retaliatory airstrikes on Sept. 29 on the Houthi-controlled Hodeidah port. (On Oct. 1, Dujarric said that it remains “operational.”) [Update, Oct. 4: …

Sep 28, 2024 · PassBlue is a nonprofit, independent women-led media company that covers foreign affairs and the United Nations with a focus on women’s issues and the impact of major world powers on ordinary citizens.

Jan 21, 2025 · US funding to the agency of approximately $330 million was frozen by Congress in March 2024, pending Israeli allegations that a dozen or so UNRWA staffers took part in the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas. Some of the accused were fired by the UN agency immediately, a few were already dead and many of the other accusations could not be investigated for lack of underlying evidence provided by Israel ...

Sep 23, 2024 · The UN cannot do its most important job (ending war) because the basic UN Charter is too fatally flawed. The Pact for the Future provides cosmetic changes but the underlying core problems with the obsolete Charter remain so that wars aren’t prevented or stopped, justice is mocked, and poverty remains too worldwide.