Today the SG announced the appointments of Brice Lalonde (France) and Elizabeth Thompson (Barbados) as Executive Coordinators for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development.
Joe Biden will chair a Security Council session on Iraq; the perm reps and their spouses will visit Washington, D.C. and what else to watch for during the United State's month long presidency of the Security Council.
The Guardian posted an intriguing diplomatic cable from the Wikileaks archive in which the American Ambassador to Sri Lanka says very plainly that Sri Lankan government and military officials are responsible for a massacre of Tamil civilians
I appeared on the The Alyona Show on Russia Today to discuss how the Wikileaks disclosures are reverberating around the United Nations. Alyona seems surprised by my contention that revelations of intelligence gathering at the United Nations are not, exactly...shocking.
Staffan de Mistura, the SRSG for Afghanistan, welcomed the final certification of the September 18th Wolesi Jirga election results, announced by the country’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) today.
For World AIDS Day, UNICEF released their fifth annual stock-taking report looking at the current state of HIV among children and young people. Overall, the number of people getting care and treatment is on the rise, but it’s still not high enough to stop the epidemic.
UN Foundation President Senator Tim Wirth and Center for American Progress President and CEO John Podesta argue that participants in the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico ought to focus on modest, achievable objectives.
I am probably the only full time blogger to ever have worked at Interpol headquarters, so it behooves me to explain the "Interpol Red Notice," which is the mechanism through which the Swedish government is requesting the arrest and extradition of Jullian Assange for sex crimes.
I snapped this picture outside of the White House last night. It looks like the Obama's are getting into the spirit. But even if you are not the leader of the free world, here is how you might get involved today.