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- Arthur Bassas
- • February 16, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @ UN: UN-Afghan talks; Gaza aid runs low; Rafah on edge. Plus: Wild animals; Lebanon; Venezuela; Navalny. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. We dare you to try our new quiz, on the …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • February 13, 2024
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The leader of the United Nations’ primary relief agency in Gaza says that its humanitarian aid operations will face serious shortfalls by mid-March if the 17 countries that paused funding do not reverse course in the coming weeks. In an …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • February 9, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Unrwa allegations; the new Pact for the Future. Plus: Senegal; Haiti; Gaza; FGM. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our thanks to everyone who has donated to PassBlue, a nonprofit media site, …
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- Opinion by Florence Syevuo and Dan Perell
- • February 7, 2024
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The zero draft of the Pact for the Future — the agreement to seal September’s much-anticipated Summit of the Future — was introduced recently by the co-facilitators, Namibia and Germany, to fellow members at the United Nations. The draft is …
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Secretary-General
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- Jessica Le Masurier and Damilola Banjo
- • February 5, 2024
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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced on January 26 that it had terminated the contracts of several employees pending an investigation into Israeli allegations that they had been involved in Hamas’s October 7 attacks in Israel. The move …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Secretary-General, UN Agencies
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- Arthur Bassas
- • January 26, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Azerbaijan to lead COP29; Gaza’s garbage pileup; US envoy loves Liberia. Plus: UN Security Council meeting on ICJ ruling; Yemen, Haiti, Gaza. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our most-read story of …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • January 19, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Uganda’s teenage-motherhood saga; don’t forget Ukraine; Israel’s takeover plan for the Egyptian-Gaza border. Plus: AI, Sudan, Zambia. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our most-read story of the week: Give Peace a …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • January 12, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Remember Nikki Haley?; Summit of the Future; South Africa’s genocide case; interviewing the General Assembly president. Plus: Somalia, Cabo Verde, Yemen and Gaza. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn • As a nonprofit media site, PassBlue relies on …
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- Opinion by Richard Ponzio
- • January 8, 2024
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At long last, after the UN75 Declaration, Secretary-General António Guterres’s Our Common Agenda, a General Assembly modalities resolution, the High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism report and a decision by the president of the General Assembly regarding the scope of …
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, SDGs, Secretary-General
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- Arthur Bassas
- • January 5, 2024
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Happy New Year!! Welcome back to This Week @UN: Five newbies in the Security Council (good luck); France on Gaza; a woman global influencer; a debt-relief plan for burdened countries. Plus: Cyprus and Sudan. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn • Thank you …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • December 22, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Afghan women are dying en route to the hospital or in it. Why invoke Article 99 of the UN Charter? The UN relief agency is not the problem in Gaza. Plus: The Congo and Sudan. Follow …
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- Opinion by Moncef Khane
- • December 18, 2023
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On Day 60 of Israel’s offensive on Gaza, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres took a rare initiative — invoking Article 99 of the UN Charter “to bring to the attention of the Security Council a matter, which in my opinion, …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • December 15, 2023
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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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- Fiona Harvey
- • December 13, 2023
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- Categories: Climate Change, Secretary-General
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- Arthur Bassas
- • December 8, 2023
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