As calls grow for the UN to finally choose a woman secretary-general, Envoy examines the barriers that have kept women from the top of global diplomacy—and the networks now trying to break them down. At the United Nations, the walls do not always live up to the grand promises of its founding Charter. An organization…
At first, the Trump administration seemed torn between weakening the UN and using it to advance the MAGA agenda. Its maneuvering over Cuba suggests Washington still sees the institution as worth capturing, not just weakening. By September 1960, during his first address to the General Assembly, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro had already sized…
Reviving its historic link with Morocco’s Chefchaouen, a small town in southern Spain, proves that cross-border cooperation can dismantle prejudice and offer a working model for the Alliance of Civilizations’ vision of intercultural understanding. As governments tighten borders and harden rhetoric, some communities are proving that diplomacy can start at street level. In southern Spain,…
“One day, even people in Israel will wake up and say: what have we been doing?” says U.N. High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, Miguel Ángel Moratinos. He argues that a new generation, unwilling to accept the suffering of war, could make this century the one that ends it. These are times of global…
The United Nations takes on the challenge of AI governance with scientific panel modeled after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change For all its lofty ideals, the United Nations is not known for its lightning speed. Yet ambassadors Héctor Gómez Hernández and Maritza Chan Valverde, permanent representatives of Spain and Costa Rica, are proud to…
