Will the Trump Administration Upend Decades of US Policy and Cut Relief Aid to Palestinian Refugees?Is the United States about to cut off American funding for the UN agency that provides humanitarian aid for Palestinian...
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...
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...
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...
A UN Human Rights Official Examined Poverty in the United States. His Findings StingAs one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the United States might seem a strange destination for an official...
14 UN Peacekeepers Have Been Killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Worst Attacks Against the UN in YearsAn attack against UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has killed 14 blue helmets and injured scores...
The Trump Administration Just Re-Introduced a Controversial Weapon Back into the US ArsenalCluster bombs are back in the U.S. military arsenal. A Department of Defense memo released last week reversed an impending...
The Trump Administration Pulls out of the Global Compact on Migration for No Good reasonThe Global Compact on Migration doesn’t exist. Rather, it was a proposal born out of a United Nations General Assembly...
This is How Prevalent Child Labor is Around the World Today. Can the Sustainable Development Goals Totally Eradicate it 7 Years from Now?The world fell short of its goal to eliminate the worst forms of child labor by 2016. Now, amid conflicts,...
