Thousands of Refugees are Stuck in Indefinite Detention on Remote Islands Off the Coast of Australia. This Lawyer Is Trying to Free ThemThe government of Australia has a particularly harsh — many consider illegal — policy of sending any refugee or asylum...
Meet the US Youth Observer to the UNMunira Khalif is the US Youth Observer to the United Nations. This is a position created in partnership between the...
9 Stories that will Drive the Global Agenda in 2018From potential nuclear armageddon to a new global compact on migration, and much in between– UN Dispatch presents our annual...
Podcast: A Lopsided Vote Against the United States Portends Big Changes At the United NationsOn Thursday, December 21 the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning the United States’ decision to recognize Jerusalem...
UN Vote on Jerusalem Tests the Power of Trump’s Threats and UltimatumsUPDATE II: The resolution passes with 128 countries voting in favor; 9 against; and 35 abstentions. As you can see...
The Well Respected UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is Leaving Because His Job Has Become ImpossibleThe United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein is resigning his post next year. In a...
PODCAST: How the The International Committee for the Red Cross Shapes World AffairsThe International Committee for the Red Cross/Red Crescent, otherwise known as the ICRC, is a singularly unique international organization. It...
PODCAST: The Mental Health of Refugee ChildrenDr. Mozhdeh Ghasemiyani is a psychologist with Doctors without Borders who escaped a genocide. She is a Kurdish refugee to...
This has been an Interesting 24 hours of North Korea DiplomacyLate last week the UN Undersecretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman visited Pyongyang, making him the first high level...
