On entering this building, one’s eye is drawn to a bluish light, which is cast by the Peace Window. At the heart of the United Nations, the Window is dedicated to those who serve the Organization. It was designed by Marc Chagall, a Russian Jew, who spent much of his life in exile, living through two…
The Security Council Chamber is decorated with a mural. In it, the Norwegian artist Per Krohg depicts a phoenix. The phoenix is rising from a world covered in ashes, a world rebuilding itself after war. The lower section of the mural is dark, showing a dragon, soldiers and war machines.
The United …
In Senegal last December, I met doctors and researchers who are passionate and determined to save lives, and it is thanks to international cooperation that, at the Institut Pasteur, they have created a vaccine-production centre equipped with the most promising technologies. A few months later, in Bo…
Nadia Murad was born in Iraq. Nadia Murad is Yazidi, and on 15 August 2014 her life changed: jihadists attacked her village. Six of her brothers were murdered before her eyes. That day she would see her mother for the last time. She would be captured to become a sex slave and would suffer the most h…
