The German government and UN Secretary General António Guterres have called for sweeping reforms to United Nations peacekeeping operations, urging the international community to modernize and ...

Some peacekeeping works. In Liberia, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, and Côte D’Ivoire, peacekeepers provided space for governments to solidify and turn the page on conflict and civil war. Other missions, ...

Rebeca Grynspan, former vice president of Costa Rica, speaks during a news conference where the government announced her nomination for United Nations secretary-general, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Oct.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House budget office has proposed eliminating funding for United Nations peacekeeping missions, citing failures by operations in Mali, Lebanon and Democratic Republic ...

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that the world body's peacekeeping operation is “only as strong as member states’ commitment to it” as he pleaded with them Tuesday to pay their share. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. Jun 29, 2025, 02:43pm EDT Members of the United Nations ...

Dear Under-Secretary-General Lacroix, We are reaching out to urge you to immediately uphold United Nations due diligence standards in the vetting of UN peacekeepers. During the recent protests in ...

The General Assembly on Monday approved a $5.38 billion budget for UN peacekeeping operations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, down slightly from the previous year, as delegates wrapped up weeks of ...

Peacekeeping missions are often criticized, but rarely do critics imagine what the world would be like in their absence. In fact, multiple studies have shown that peacekeeping missions are one of the ...

The mandate of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) is set out in the Security Council Resolution 2350 (2017), which was adopted on 13 April 2017. The United Nations ...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed a high-level independent panel to assess the state of UN peace operations, special political missions and emerging needs of the future, among ...