Common responsibility

Lieutenant Josephin-Marie G. is a member of a UN mission.

They are mediators, election observers or construction workers: how civilian professionals contribute to the success of peace missions.

How German companies take on responsibility for human rights worldwide.

They risk their lives for their ideals: Fifteen strong women and men receive the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law.

At a meeting in Mexico, politicians from all over the world are working on a pact for migration. Germany is contributing important ideas.

Germany increases its financial commitment to countries in Africa.

250 politicians and experts will soon be discussing the state of the world – and possible consequences of Germany’s domestic political situation for Europe.

The tasks of German blue-helmet soldiers in Lebanon and the current political situation.

How Germany supports the two countries that have suffered gravely under war and crises.

International voices on Germany’s involvement in the United Nations

International cooperation plays an important role in German foreign policy. Germany’s commitment to the United Nations

Poverty, migration, climate change – the Brandt Commission was already demanding answers to these issues 40 years ago. And for a long time it did so in vain. An interview with Germany’s Federal Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel.

Former Federal president Horst Köhler is to be appointed new UN emissary for the conflict in the Western Sahara.

Ambassador Hinrich Thölken, Germany’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Rome, on the fight against hunger in the world.

Ambassadors and senior German employees in international organizations present insights into their work in the deutschland.de series “Foreign posting”.

Since 1994, when the law dividing up ministries and institutions between Bonn and Berlin was passed, it hasn't been a one-way street to Berlin. Bonn has reinvented itself as the United Nations’ base in Germany.

Every third woman in Europe becomes a victim of violence in the course of her life. Since 2013, people in more than 200 countries around the world get up and dance together once a year in protest at violence towards girls and women. The campaign is called One Billion Rising, and it was founded by New York artists and activist Eve Ensler.