Index
AI-assisted briefings that turn UN meeting transcripts into short, interactive readouts — the consensus, the fault lines, and who said what, each stance traceable to the record. Open a topic below to see its readouts.
Grouped by subject, not by speaking body — how artificial intelligence is discussed across the UN, spanning governance, sustainable development, skills, and youth. Sessions are collected for retrieval; not tracked as a negotiation sequence.
A Pakistan–Tajikistan co-hosted side event: will AI bridge the development divide or widen it? A consensual room with real tensions of emphasis, and one UNDP counter-current on compute concentration and safeguards. 15 speakers; 17 quotes audio-verified.
The UN process to rethink how national progress is measured — what should count alongside GDP, and who decides. Followed as a sequence across four 2026 rounds; start with the time-series overview, then open a single round for the full stance detail.
The dedicated tracker for the whole process: all four 2026 rounds — GA briefing, Open Consultation, HLPF panel, country-phase launch — plus the drift and time-series analysis across them. Start here.
The flagship readout: 27 delegations across every major bloc, filterable stance cards, and a fault-line plot mapping the finance-link, subjectivity, and governance-venue divides.
What is new since July: country pilots, a data hub and peer learning, with expressions of interest due 30 November 2026. The General Assembly track waits for new co-facilitators.
The choice of the next UN Secretary-General, who takes office in January 2027. Followed across the public stages of the 2026 selection — the candidate events on the record, before the decisive votes move behind closed doors.
Latin America and the Caribbean put its own candidates on one stage for the first time, with fourteen governments asking the questions. The region agrees the post is its turn, then argues its way past that claim to one about experience. Three candidates answered live; two sent a video and a letter.
Six candidates, the same questions, ninety minutes. They agree on the diagnosis, so the real divide is what each thinks the office can do: broker, convener, or administrator. Includes a first-100-days ledger. 12 quotes audio-verified.
Formal meetings of the Security Council, grouped by the body rather than by subject. Recurring files — like the Sudan / Darfur ICC briefings — are followed across sessions as they accumulate.
The ICC Deputy Prosecutor's 43rd report under Resolution 1593. The fault line: defend the Court vs. delegitimise it. The fault-line plot ranks each delegation by how hard it backs the Court, scored quote by quote, with a click-to-compare evidence panel behind every dot. 17 speakers; 29 quotes audio-verified.
How the UN development system is funded, and how the funding squeeze reshapes what its entities can deliver — core-resource decline, the funding compact, and where the money question meets institutional reform.
Administrator Alexander de Croo sets out a model where aid unlocks investment rather than pays for it, and asks the Board for a different share of the same money: more of it as core. 36 delegations respond over three hours — the room accepts the model almost without dissent, and argues instead about who has to move to fund it, the contributors or UNDP itself.
The Executive Board takes up two merger proposals: UNDP with UNOPS, and UNFPA with UN Women. 27 delegations respond, scored on two mirrored rubrics — the divide is whether the financial case for merging holds up well enough to act on now. France and the United States read the same cost figures and reach opposite conclusions.
Three agenda items in one Executive Board sitting: the UNDP and UNFPA structured funding dialogues, the UNCDF 2025 financial review, and how the Board runs its own governance and oversight. 11 delegations, scored on two mirrored rubrics — the divide is who has to move to close the funding gap.
The Secretary-General's UN80 initiative to reform the UN system in its 80th year — from the launch briefing through the Working Group rounds and into the specific reform packages now before member states.
The Secretary-General's informal briefing launching the UN80 reform initiative. Round 1 of the UN80 arc.
The UN80 Working Group's second round. Round 2 of the UN80 arc.
Three reform packages put to the membership in one sitting: how the UN is funded, whether it can trace mandates to results, and the consolidation of its peacebuilding tools. 34 delegations, analysed package by package — and compared, because most changed posture between them.
The tenth and last UN80 briefing before the session closed: a stocktake from the Secretary-General, the working group co-chairs' report, and 29 delegations on the record. Nobody argued against reform; the divergence was pace, process, and what the 81st session inherits.