US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also said at the European Union’s defense summit in Brussels on March 5 that NATO members should be ready to raise their defense spending to 5 percent of their GDP.

In her current job, she relies on her skills as “a natural networker” to succeed, a capacity she honed as an ...

Denmark will lead its United Nations Security Council rotating presidency by focusing on peace as tensions mount over ...

The growing dominance of nationalist populism is remaking world order, engendering what I call a “Concert of Authoritarianism ...

UN: Countering authoritarianism; Denmark’s push for peace; anti-nukers; nuke-power fallacies. Plus: Gaza; Arab summit; Syria; Central African Republic; Afghanistan; International Women’s Day. We’re on ...

Activists are using the conference to cheer on states parties to the treaty amid the risk that use of nuclear weapons has never been higher even as more countries join the pact. In 2024, Indonesia, ...

The monitor said that although the overall number of nuclear weapons globally has been reduced, the available stockpile of nuclear warheads has been steadily rising since 2017. There are now 9,604 ...

The Human Rights Council began its first session of the year on Monday amid seismic political shifts. The most noticeable change was the absence of the United States after President Donald Trump ...

" Hoffman is an associate editor in the Graduate Programs in International Affairs at the New School, where he also directs the UN Summer Study program. [email protected] ...

Elise Stefanik, a member of the House of Representatives (R-New York), was nominated by President Donald Trump as the UN ambassador. Though her candidacy has not been voted on by the full Senate, she ...

[Update, Feb. 26: Philippe Lazzarini of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said that more than 50 people, including children, have been killed in the West Bank since Israel started its operations ...

Although it’s been said a million times, Eileen Scollan, an Irish diplomat at the United Nations, reiterates that women must play a central role in peace-building and conflict resolution for peace to ...