When the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, it had all the makings of a monumental catastrophe. The Secretary-General at the time, Ban Ki-moon, was not the same kind of jet-setting international peace ...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released its annual assessment of global ...

We cover a lot of ground in this week’s episode. Just hours before we recorded our conversation, the ICC issued formal arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav ...

This episode of Global Dispatches is a bit different than usual. Rather than the host, Mark Leon Goldberg interviewing someone, he is the one being interviewed. Moderators at the WordNews page on ...

The Israeli Defense Forces have continued their deliberate attacks on UN peacekeeping positions in southern Lebanon, including an incident in which UNIFIL Blue Helmets were injured by white phosphorus ...

The Arab Human Development Report has proven to be a very worthy endeavor that some credit with laying the intellectual groundwork for the Arab Spring. We should all be glad that the Republican ...

Heather Nauert is a former Fox News personality who has been tapped by Donald Trump to serve as the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations. If confirmed, she will replace Nikki Haley who ...

It is dangerous to allow multinational corporations a prominent role in the climate negotiations. This risk was made evident by a letter Greenpeace uncovered on the last day of the Cancun conference.

The scion of Ted Turner is forging a new philanthropic path.

Rebecca Hamilton on PBS News Hour discusses some of the challenges faced by the new Republic of South Sudan.