List of Organizations articles
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Russia ambassador Vassily Nebenzia vetoes Syria chemical weapons resolution on October 24, 2017. (Timothy Clary/ AFP/Getty Images) Russia Vetoes U.N. Effort to Finger Those Responsible for Syrian Chemical Weapons Attacks
Nikki Haley warns U.S. is prepared to use military to enforce prohibition on Syrian chemical weapons use.
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The General Assembly hall at U.N.'s New York headquarters on May 12, 2006. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) U.S. Pushes Back Against U.N. Anti-Violence Resolutions
Wary of creeping international law, U.S. diplomats fight a rearguard action to limit the scope of two U.N. resolutions on women and children.
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Amina J. Mohammed gives a speech at FP's annual Diplomat of the Year Awards. (Jason Dixson Photography) Diplomat of the Year Honoree Amina J. Mohammed Discusses Future of United Nations
The U.N.'s second-in-command talks the future of diplomacy.
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A woman with a boy walk in a flooded area on May 31 in Panthau, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan. An estimated 63 per cent of the population in Northern Bahr al Ghazal is experiencing severe food insecurity. (Albert Gonzalez Farran/AFP/Getty Images) Treasury Takes Aim at Global Food Security Program
The Trump administration wants to dismantle another Obama-era development program.
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U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed speaks at the U.N. in February. (Devra Berkowitz/U.N. Photo) New Allegations Challenge the Environment Record of Top U.N. Official
Environmental group claims Amina J. Mohammed authorized illegal exports of endangered rosewood during her term as Nigeria’s environment minister.
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(Left to right) Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, Guinea's President Alpha Conde, U.S. President Donald Trump, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria's Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on May 27 in Taormina, Sicily. (Jonathan Ernst/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Dangerous Retreat from Africa
The U.S. administration is ramping up military engagement on the continent but ramping everything else down. Other countries are already filling the void.
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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Heinz-Christian Strache, chairman of the Freedom Party, give a joint press conference in Vienna on Oct. 25. (Helmut Fohringer/AFP/Getty Images) The Battle for Austria’s Right Is a Harbinger for the Rest of Europe
In Vienna, the center-right and populist right are vying for power. All of Europe is watching.
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A man collects samples from the site of a suspected sarin gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria, on April 4. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images) Russia Vetoes Extension of U.N. Inquiry Into Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
The sole investigation into responsibility for a deadly sarin attack is now in jeopardy.
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On this episode of The E.R., the panel discusses the FBI's designation of "black identity extremists" as a terror group. (Foreign Policy/Ian Langsdon/AFP/Getty Images) The E.R.: Tackling the FBI’s ‘Black Identity Extremists’ Designation
The government’s designations continue to confound and upset critics.
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A distraught Rohingya boy seeks handouts near the Balukali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on Sept. 20. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) For Years, U.N. Was Warned of Threat to Rohingya in Myanmar
Myanmar’s Muslim crackdown “has been decades in the making.”
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World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim speaks during a media briefing at IMF headquarters on April 10, 2014 in Washington, D.C. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Trump Takes Aim at World Bank Over China Loans
The multilateral lender had somehow avoided the president’s anti-globalist ire. No longer.
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Audrey Azoulay, candidate for UNESCO director-general, delivers a speech at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Oct. 13. (Chen Yichen/Xinhua via Getty Images) UNESCO Gets First Jewish Director, Day After U.S. Leaves Over ‘Anti-Israel’ Bias
Outgoing head defends organization after U.S., Israeli departure.
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The Palestinian Rehabilitation Committee raised the UNESCO flag next to the national Palestinian flag in front of Hebron's Ibrahimi Mosque or the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the southern West Bank city's old quarter on December 13, 2011, as the Palestinian flag was hoisted at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, a month after the Palestinians' admission to the UN cultural agency sparked anger and reprisals from the United States and Israel. AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER (Photo credit should read HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images) Israel to Withdraw from UNESCO, Following United States
Tensions have built since the U.N. agency recognized Palestine in 2011.
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A logo of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is displayed in front of the organization headquarters on September 14, 2011. AFP PHOTO MIGUEL MEDINA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. to Pull Out of UNESCO, Again
Worried about past dues and what it calls an anti-Israel bias, Washington is bailing on the group it helped found.
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Sebastian Kurz visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem during his tenure as foreign minister. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images) Meet the First Millennial to Run a Western Country
Nobody knows if 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz is an establishment conservative or a far-right populist — and that’s why he’ll soon be running Austria.
