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Welcome to This Week @UN: A woman SG?; Rafah; Gambian victims; Malta’s ICC push on Palestine; more US bombs to Israel. Plus: World Central Kitchen; AI in warfare; Myanmar; earthquake!! Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn • …
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- Arthur Bassas
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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. This week, we cover events in the Mideast, with an …
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Karim Khan’s unprecedented politicization of the International Criminal Court since assuming the role of Prosecutor in June 2021 has significantly eroded the credibility of the Court just as he should be taking serious steps to address its declining legitimacy. Khan …
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS, Security Council
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Russia has been blacklisted by the United Nations for committing numerous atrocities against children in Ukraine. In Secretary-General António Guterres’s recent annual report on children and armed conflict, both Russia and Ukraine are listed as “situations of concern,” but only …
- Categories: Human Rights, ICC, Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War, UN Agencies
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- Dawn Clancy
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TALLINN, Estonia –– Efforts to create a special tribunal to try Russian leaders for the crime of aggression in Ukraine is exposing a deepening divide between the Group of 7 countries and their European allies over how to hold …
- Categories: General Assembly, ICC, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Dulcie Leimbach
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This week, the UN tries to get food and other essentials to Sudanese people as the two generals keep up the chaos. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Human Rights, ICC, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Damilola Banjo
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This week, we report on Russia getting its first hint that it might someday be held accountable for its territorial assault on Ukraine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is …
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- Dawn Clancy
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LONDON — In seeking justice and accountability for alleged war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, Karim Khan, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, urged United Nations member states to stay focused on “the suffering of humanity” and to …
- Categories: Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War
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The International Criminal Court has just issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, for the alleged crime of unlawfully deporting and transferring Ukrainian children from the occupied territories of the country to …
- Categories: Human Rights, ICC, International Justice
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- Damilola Banjo
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This week, we focus on countries with enduring humanitarian disasters, plus big news from the International Criminal Court on Russia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN …
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, ICC, Myanmar, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Dawn Clancy
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Hans Corell knows how to establish war crime tribunals. The Swede is a former top legal expert for the United Nations who served under Secretaries-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan and, on behalf of the institution, was instrumental in setting …
- Categories: General Assembly, ICC, International Justice, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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The UN boss points to rising global military spending as a source of gendered violence; the UN’s tech envoy, mired in controversy, may be exiting; the Human Rights Council rolls out a multimillion-dollar project with the Philippines. You are reading …
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- Rhona Scullion
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In the early morning of Tuesday, April 3, 2018, a temporary United Nations peacekeeping base in the village of Tagbara, in the Central African Republic, was attacked by rebel militia groups. One peacekeeper was killed and 11 others were injured …
- Categories: Africa, ICC, UN Peacekeeping
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We stand on the shoulders of those who created the international order, which has prevented world war for more than 70 years. “American leaders who laid foundations of the contemporary world order envisioned a world in which all peoples might …
- Categories: ICC, Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations
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