PassBlue

PassBlue is an independent, women-led digital publication offering in-depth journalism on the US-UN relationship as well as women’s issues, human rights, peacekeeping and other urgent global matters, reported from our base in the UN press corps. Founded in 2011, PassBlue is a project of the New School’s Graduate Program in International Affairs in New York and not tied financially or otherwise to the UN. Stories reprinted from PassBlue are republished on The Seattle Globalist under a Creative Commons license.
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Kofi Annan, 80, a popular UN Secretary-General from Africa, is dead

by PassBlue
Kofi Annan led the UN for two terms, from 1997 through 2006, winning the Nobel Peace Prize for himself and the organization in 2001.
Aug 22, 2018