Bruce W. Jentleson is a professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy and a former US State Department official. He is the author of the forthcoming book "Transformational ...

Giovanna Marques Kuele is a research assistant with Instituto Igarapé, a think tank in Rio de Janeiro that deals with international security and development issues. Adriana Erthal Abdenur is an ...

Just days before the COP26 environment summit in Glasgow, Scotland, three of the United Nations’ lead agencies on climate and development each published alarming reports. The World Meteorological ...

Hayley Willingale is a human-rights expert based in London who specializes in women's rights. She has written for and edited a range of publications in recent years, covering international development ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres received an honorary degree from the New School university in New York City on Feb. 17. He spoke at length on “women and power,” blaming patriarchy for the ...

Susan Hutchinson is a specialist in the women, peace and security agenda with professional experience in the military, government and NGO sectors. She is currently a Ph.D. scholar at the Australian ...

In February 2020, just weeks before New York City and much of the world went into lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we and our fellow ambassadors at the United Nations began six months of ...

Daniel Salazar is a research assistant at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a professor at The New School's Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs, where she specializes in development. From 1995 to 2004, she led the United Nations ...

Melanne Verveer is director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. She was formerly US Ambassador for Global Women's Issues and worked at the center of the work of the US ...

Stéphanie Fillion is a New York-based reporter specializing in foreign affairs and human rights who has been writing for PassBlue regularly for a year, including co-producing UN-Scripted, a new ...

Abdellatif El Hamamouchi is a Moroccan researcher of political science and an investigative journalist. He was given the Freedom of Expression and Media Award in North Africa for 2023 from the Article ...