Thousands of people are marching outside the #COP30 summit in Brazil, calling for urgent action on the climate crisis and human rights. 🌎✊ It is the first time since 2021 that protestors have been allowed to demonstrate outside the climate talks.

Ecuadorians vote overwhelmingly to maintain their “ecological constitution” that recognizes the rights of nature.

Can Gaza Become Stable? The Prospects and Perplexities passblue.com/2025/11/16/c...

Past interventions in Afghanistan & Iraq are a cautionary tale for Gaza Our oped by an ex-UN peacekeeper

Can Gaza Become Stable? The Prospects and Perplexities passblue.com/2025/11/16/c...

ICYMI: News, news & more news

ICYMI: News, news & more news

[UN: Nov. 14] Pushback Against US ‘Bullying’; Rival Resolutions on Gaza & Lots More passblue.com/2025/11/14/u...

Our video interview with the ambassador of the small, West African country with big ambitions

[UN: Nov. 14] Pushback Against US ‘Bullying’; Rival Resolutions on Gaza & Lots More passblue.com/2025/11/14/u...

US tried to cut peacekeeping forces in this African country as it faces national elections. But 14 other Security Council members said no way

Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃

Peacekeeping in the Central African Republic Survives Washington’s Ax passblue.com/2025/11/13/p...

US tried to cut peacekeeping forces in this African country as it faces national elections. But 14 other Security Council members said no way

Peacekeeping in the Central African Republic Survives Washington’s Ax passblue.com/2025/11/13/p...

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

Justice Begins Within: For Greece, the UN’s Internal Courts Are Its Own Rule of Law passblue.com/2025/11/12/j...

Justice Begins Within: For Greece, the UN’s Internal Courts Are Its Own Rule of Law passblue.com/2025/11/12/j...

How’d They Do? Sierra Leone’s Security Council Term passblue.com/2025/11/11/h...

“When they knew no one else was listening/reading, when they had no reason to suspect these would ever become public, Epstein and Maxwell talked about Trump being present in his house with a known sex trafficking victim, Giuffre; they stated “of course he knew” about the “girls.”

Colombia's suspension of intel cooperation and the EU's plan for its own intel cell point to the same problem: allies fear U.S. intel will be used for unlawful or unethical actions, not shared security. Our assessment warned that politicized intel and erosion of oversight would have global fallout.

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Our video interview with the ambassador of the small, West African country with big ambitions

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Michael Shaikh has spent two decades documenting the human cost of war. In his new book, “The Last Sweet Bite,” Shaikh shows how the targeting of food traditions is not collateral damage but cultural warfare.

How’d They Do? Sierra Leone’s Security Council Term passblue.com/2025/11/11/h...

UNICEF says Israel blocking 1 million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children UNICEF launched the first of three rounds of catch-up immunizations Sunday to reach more than 40,000 children. www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...

The Trump administration’s decision to lift sanctions on Milorad Dodik fulfills a central aim of Putin’s strategy: fracturing the Western order, writes Elmira Bayrasli.

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Well pass the whiskey and let’s pause in awe.

French foreign minister says US military operations in Caribbean violate international law reut.rs/3Lyf5cC

Women Who Manage Climate Disasters Are Generally the Last to Get Funding passblue.com/2025/11/09/w...

Human Rights Watch is at #COP30, the UN conference on climate change, in Belém, Brazil. Urgent action is needed against climate change. Learn more about what we're calling for at #COP30 ⤵️

The African Union’s feebleness means that the continent is almost voiceless on the international stage, writes columnist @hofrench.bsky.social.

The 2025 U.N. climate conference, COP30, will run from Nov. 10-21 in Belém, Brazil, and is expected to host the largest participation of Indigenous peoples in the conference series’ history, with more than 3,000 Indigenous delegates registered. Mongabay spoke with some about their objectives.

No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse. grist.org/climate/no-d... #Disaster #Hurricane #Climate #Science

What to know this week: US maneuvers at the UN re Syria & Gaza Who won our informal poll re next UN SecGen Mamdani & the UN: will he visit?

Women Who Manage Climate Disasters Are Generally the Last to Get Funding passblue.com/2025/11/09/w...

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[COMMENTARY] 🐾 In Kenya, Samburu women of the Mama Simba program lead lion conservation — restoring harmony between people and wildlife. This commentary reminds us: “When women lead, everything changes.” ** Views are author’s. #VoicesFromTheLand

What to know this week: US maneuvers at the UN re Syria & Gaza Who won our informal poll re next UN SecGen Mamdani & the UN: will he visit?

[UN: Nov. 7] It’s Climate-Talks Time; US Moves on Syria and Gaza & Much More passblue.com/2025/11/07/u...

[UN: Nov. 7] It’s Climate-Talks Time; US Moves on Syria and Gaza & Much More passblue.com/2025/11/07/u...

Feminist Foreign Policies Are Fighting for Their Life passblue.com/2025/11/05/f...

From Gaza to Syria, US Makes New Moves in the UN Security Council passblue.com/2025/11/06/f...

Ms Rachel 🤝 Zohran "I refuse to apologize for any of it"

"Hundreds of #university staff have been killed, including deans and heads of department, sometimes in their own homes with their families. Thousands of students have been killed by Israeli attacks in #Gaza. Formal #education has been brought to a complete standstill." #genocide

A must-read for anyone at #COP30 and beyond thinking about how to rescue 1.5°C and limit #overshoot!

Something is #rotten in Europe... #Journalist is fired just for asking a relevant question?! #genocide #WarCrimes #Gaza

it's like seventieth on the list of problems here but none of these gold tones match and it feels like that's a problem they could have solved by buying a single bulk-sized peel-and-stick package of gilt foam gewgaws instead of ordering a new one every time they ran out