News of woke

A woman in charge of the UN? Candidates feel it's about time

Yesterday 21:03 Female challengers to be the next UN secretary-general outline why they think a woman should be next to lead the multilateral organisation.

RACE FOR UN SECRETARY-GENERAL

'Save humanity': A look at the four figures battling it out to lead the United Nations

20-04-2026 06:51 Argentina's Rafael Grossi, Chile's Michelle Bachelet, Costa Rican Rebeca Grynspan and Senegal's Macky Sall will each face grillings by 193 member states and NGOs this week as the race to become UN secretary-general heats up.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Rafael Grossi: ‘The UN is moving into irrelevance, but it need not be so’

10-01-2026 06:59 Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is one of the leading candidates to succeed United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. In an exclusive interview, the Argentine diplomat discusses the UN’s top job, his vision for it and career to date.

by James Grainger

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE

COP30 dragged into clash over gender language

19-11-2025 16:53 Row over the definition of gender risks complicates outcome of COP30 climate talks in Brazil, after six governments – including Argentina – moved to attach their own interpretations as footnotes to a key text.

MULTILATERALISM

UN atomic boss achieves gender parity – just don’t call it DEI

11-06-2025 17:52 Argentine diplomat Rafael Mariano Grossi, a top candidate to become the next United Nations secretary general, has achieved gender parity at the International Atomic Energy Agency in record time.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Woke no joke

08-02-2025 06:55 “Woke” has become a pejorative for anything the new right considers excessively progressive, but too few people here seem to have any precise idea what it means.

News of woke

A woman in charge of the UN? Candidates feel it's about time

'Save humanity': A look at the four figures battling it out to lead the United Nations

Rafael Grossi: ‘The UN is moving into irrelevance, but it need not be so’

COP30 dragged into clash over gender language

UN atomic boss achieves gender parity – just don’t call it DEI

Woke no joke

Trump looms large over Brazil's presidential election

World Cup nears kick off after pre-tournament turbulence

Bolivian President Paz says 'narco-terrorists' behind crippling protests

Milei defends unregulated AI push after warning from historian Yuval Noah Harari

Real Madrid bids 150 million euros for Atlético Madrid's Julián Álvarez

La industria dejará medio millón de trabajadores sin empleo y cerrará hasta 40.000 empresas en 2026

Quién era Daniel Osorio Peñaloza, el directivo de Gen Tech, la empresa de Martín Menem, hallado muerto en Almagro

Leonardo Fariña afirmó que Lázaro Báez era un “depositario de confianza” de Néstor Kirchner

Jorge Asís sobre la partida del Indio Solari: "El peronismo, Javier, todavía funciona"

Denuncian que Cristina Kirchner tiene más restricciones que condenados por lesa humanidad y narcotráfico