Five members of the Security Council rotating off and five new ones rotating in. How will the new composition of the Security Council shape its work in the coming year, and who are the key new ...

It’s a new day in Damascus. But what about New York? For the last 14 years, the United Nations’ role in Syria has been relegated to the circumscribed (but vital) task of supporting the humanitarian ...

Listeners will no doubt remember the devastating Ebola outbreak of 2014–2016. More than 28,600 people were infected, and 11,325 people... Republicans will soon control the House of Representatives, ...

Georgina Rannard is a Senior Fellow with Humanity in Action. She has held fellowships at the Library of Congress and Yale University, and in 2015 she was the Jane Haining Humanitarian Fellow in the ...

Penelope is a strategy and communications professional, passionate about international affairs, human rights and democracy. With a wide range of experience in the non-profit, non-governmental and ...

A new year. A new United Nations. In our 2025 debut episode of To Save Us From Hell, Anjali Dayal and ...

Joanne is a freelance journalist dedicated to covering global poverty and inequality. Her work has appeared in Humanosphere, the Guardian and War is Boring ...

On May 9th, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was elected President of the Philippines. If that name sounds familiar to you, it... Kenyans will go to the polls on August 9th to elect a new president. The current ...

When a COVID-19 Vaccine is available, most of the world will have access to it thanks to a unique platform for international cooperation called The COVAX Facility. The COVAX Facility, which is also ...

When the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, it had all the makings of a monumental catastrophe. The Secretary-General at... Listeners will no doubt remember the devastating Ebola outbreak of 2014–2016.

Michael Scott Moore spent 977 days as a hostage of Somali pirates. He is a journalist and in 2012 he set out for the Somali coast on a reporting trip when he was kidnapped. What followed was a two and ...

When the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, it had all the makings of a monumental catastrophe. The Secretary-General at... The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) ...