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Welcome to This Week @UN: The endless hell in Gaza; the first woman specialist on torture; UN gossip; Ukraine seeks friends in the Mideast and Africa. Plus: Mali, Myanmar, Guyana/Venezuela and the word “genocide.” Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Please let us know …
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YEREVAN, Armenia — Since Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan came to office in 2018 on the heels of a democratic revolution in which he played a central role, his administration has faced numerous security and political crises. The protracted conflict …
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security, Refugees, Security Council
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A new independent analysis of how the United Nations should deal with the wide-ranging challenges plaguing Afghanistan is likely to be debated privately in the Security Council on Nov. 28. Although the Taliban are unequivocal in their contempt for human …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Security Council
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After 40 days of war in Gaza, the United Nations Security Council finally passed a binding resolution calling for immediate humanitarian pauses and corridors to enable essential help to reach civilians, especially children, in the besieged Palestinian enclave. But some …
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news coming from the organization while promoting our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. Thirty-three days into the Israel-Hamas war, 11,078 deaths have been …
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- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Security Council
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- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Security Council Presidency
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Every year, women’s equal roles in peace talks are highlighted in October at the United Nations. This time, the women, peace and security agenda, as it’s known, got attention outside the UN, near the steps to its main entrance on …
- Categories: Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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Representatives of United Nations agencies based in Azerbaijan, acting on instructions from that government, hopped into their four-wheel drives on Oct. 1 and proceeded from Baku, the capital, to Stepanakert/Khandendi, the capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh region known to Armenians as …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news emanating from the organization as well as promote our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. Since Saturday, Oct. 7, the murder spree by …
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, This Week @UN
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A high court in Kenya has temporarily blocked the United Nations Security Council-backed Multinational Security Support mission from going to Haiti. “That a conservatory order is hereby issued restraining the respondents from deploying police officers to Haiti or any other …
- Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights lies at the heart of global efforts to end the death penalty. So as its 75th anniversary approaches on Dec. 10 and as we mark the 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty, on …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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Although people across the world maintain faith in democracy, “that faith is running on fumes” for younger generations, a new survey found, published by the Open Society Foundations, which focuses on justice, human rights and democratic governance. Launched in September, …
- Categories: Governance, Human Rights, International Justice, Poverty
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