This year the UN General Assembly High-Level Week proved to be a crucial platform for moving forward coordinated action and strategic solutions for energy access and transition. The UN ...

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

The United Nations’ top leadership position has broad authority to steer the organization’s agenda. Yet its impact has varied widely since 1946, shaped by global crises, political constraints, and ...

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A UN fact-finding mission pointed out the Tomahawk missile strike on a primary school that killed over 150 people in the city of Minab, as well as another airstrike which killed 22 civilians. The fact ...

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António Guterres is stepping down in December after two terms as secretary general. No front-runner to succeed him has emerged so far. By Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi has covered the U.N. and the ...