Like other UN departments, the Human Rights Council has been ordered to trim spending. Its bureau responded by limiting speaking time and scrapping certain debates, shortening the session by two and a ...

Birkett, the permanent representative of Guyana to the UN and president of the Security Council for June. In an interview ...

[ Update: Late on June 12, Israel attacked Iran in strikes that continued on June 13, targeting nuclear and military ...

Earlier this year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres presented his UN80 Initiative as a reform agenda for the ...

For the first time since the Israeli military operation started in Gaza after Oct. 7, 2023, this new draft text of the ...

Now, a dramatic reshaping of UN development is unavoidable. As the financial plug is being pulled and patronage exposed, ...

Sebastião Salgado, the Brazilian-French photographer renowned for his distinctively luminous black-and-white images ...

As Israel’s war on Gaza intensifies, Guyana’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, ...

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" Lunshof has a Ph.D from the University of Utrecht, where he was an academic for several years before joining the UNHCR in the early 1990s. He worked for the organization for 28 years in various ...