Programme Director, International Law Programme. On 17 November the UN Security Council adopted resolution 2803, endorsing the United States-backed ‘Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict’ – also ...

Diplomats have been highlighting Security Council resolution 1701 in official meetings and in the corridors over the busy High-Level Week at UN Headquarters. Those discussions come at a time when ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman about the current state of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

What you are about to read is not an analysis of failure. It is an autopsy of deliberate design. Three days before celebrating children’s rights (November 20, 2025, marked 36 years since the ...

How does a Security Council resolution get adopted? The 15-member Council is charged with taking action, through resolutions and decisions, on any threats to international peace and security, but ...

The council, responsible for maintaining global peace and security, has the power to deploy peacekeeping missions, authorize the use of force, impose sanctions, and pass resolutions – many of which ...

The U.S. faces yet another clear and apparent danger. Since Jan. 20, the Trump administration has eviscerated what should be the president’s most important decision-making body: the National Security ...

Some topics never die at the United Nations. Calls to expand and reform the Security Council is one of those persistent issues. An amendment increasing its size was adopted only once in 1965. But ...

NEW YORK, NY – Baltic foreign ministers tore into the United Nations in interviews with Fox News Digital this week, blasting the Security Council as powerless and "out of capabilities to react" ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s national security advisor has sidelined about 160 National Security Council staffers, telling them to work from home while the administration reviews staffing and tries ...