N'Dongo Athie is a reporter who covers the United Nations for the Asahi Shimbun and is a correspondent for Radio France International. She has a master's degree in journalism from the Free University of Brussels and a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Lorraine, France. Athie is fluent in English, French, Fula and learning Arabic. @NdongoA1
What: The small and colorful United Nations Association gift shop has been located in the same exact spot since it opened in 1974, in Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area. It sells everything from artisanal jewelry and baskets to plenty of other low-tech, mostly handmade goods in between, symbolically representing the world. The 1,000-square-foot …
What’s new: The Impact:Peace initiative launched this summer to provide “real” impact on peace-building on the ground, its founders say. The goal of the million-dollar project is to significantly reduce conflict worldwide, while accelerating the most important changes in the peace-building field. As the United Nations Security Council remains divided geopolitically and unable to stop …
PassBlue is an independent, women-led journalism site that closely covers the US-UN relationship, women’s issues, human rights, peacekeeping and other urgent global matters playing out in the world body. We report with a feminist perspective from our base in the UN press corps .
Our mission is to educate the public about what the UN does and doesn’t do and the role of the US, the most powerful member, at the world body. We aim to hold individuals and civic institutions accountable, including the UN and all its members.
