Damilola Banjo is an award-winning staff reporter for PassBlue who has covered a wide range of topics, from Africa-centered stories to gender equality to UN peacekeeping and US-UN relations. She also ...

Arthur Bassas is a researcher and writer who graduated from St. Andrews in Scotland, majoring in international relations and terrorism. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and speaks English and French.

Fiona Curtin is the Communications Adviser of FUNDS, helping to coordinate the project's communications and social media activities. She worked for more than 10 years at the UN and in the NGO sector ...

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Chloé Cosson has a master's degree in cultural journalism from Sorbonne University, in Paris, and a B.A. in literature (writing and English studies) from Lumière University, Lyon. She was most ...

Afghan women resisting the Taliban’s repression, above. The essayist writes that although many women judges, like her, have escaped Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of August 2021, 68 women ...

To rectify the underuse of the Charter tool, Pakistan will be holding a signature debate on July 22 on the peaceful settlement of disputes. The UN is often credited with preventing a third world war, ...

Can Congo's 'Miracle Doctor' Keep Saving Women's Lives Without UN Security? - PassBlueOver the years, his hospital has become one of the largest medical institutions providing medical care for women ...

President Vladimir Putin could face a special tribunal for the crime of aggression in Ukraine. But a core group of advocates pushing for creating such a court is divided on what it should look like.

Because of a shortage of men from early deaths in Russia, women are forced to stay in abusive relationships, believing that they are lucky to “get men,” an expert said. Muscovites, above, on the metro ...

Leadership of UN Missions: Halting Progress on the Road to Gender Parity - PassBlueConcrete action may have helped enlarge a pool of female candidates that had been constrained by institutional ...

In fact, it took an intervention from numerous governments and prominent people, including Margot Wallstrom, a former Swedish foreign minister and the first UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict, to ...