Blue Smoke archive
A Newsletter Tracking Senior UN Appointments
- The Blue Smoke Team
- • February 25, 2024
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Diplomats are wading through 250 pages of member states’ suggestions on what should be included in the United Nations’ grandly named “Pact for the Future,” the outcome document of the world body’s equally grandly named “Summit of the Future” this …
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- The Blue Smoke Team
- • January 21, 2024
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As we went to press in our final newsletter of 2023, Azerbaijan was appointed host of the 2024 UN Climate Summit as part of a deal that may have been made to help bring some peace to the region. Moreover, …
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- The Blue Smoke Team
- • December 10, 2023
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- The Blue Smoke Team
- • November 18, 2023
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Welcome to the November edition of the Blue Smoke newsletter – part of our continuing project to shine a light on appointments and elections at the UN. Much is asked of UN officials, and none more so than the many …
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- The Blue Smoke Team
- • October 15, 2023
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Sounding the Alarm Welcome to the October edition of the Blue Smoke newsletter, part of our project to shine a light on appointments and elections at the UN. We’re back from a brief summer hiatus recharged and raring to continue …
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- The Blue Smoke Team
- • July 18, 2023
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P5 Frenemies Welcome to the July issue of Blue Smoke, the monthly newsletter shining a spotlight on senior appointments at the United Nations. Blue Smoke has spent the last couple of months following the biennial General Assembly resolution which guides …
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- The Blue Smoke Team
- • June 11, 2023
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The Colour Line Welcome to the June issue of Blue Smoke, the monthly newsletter shining a spotlight on senior appointments at the United Nations. Spend too long staring into the abyss that is the United Nations’ senior appointment system and …
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- The Blue Smoke Team
- • May 10, 2023
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A Matter of Time Welcome to the May issue of Blue Smoke, the monthly newsletter shining a spotlight on senior appointments at the United Nations. We talk a lot about timing at Blue Smoke because the calibre of leaders that …
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- The Blue Smoke Team
- • April 6, 2023
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Unmerited: Where Does It stop? Welcome to the April issue of Blue Smoke, a new monthly newsletter shining a spotlight on senior appointments at the United Nations. We all know that top UN jobs are frequently awarded as political favours. …
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- The Blue Smoke Team
- • March 4, 2023
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“It’s confidential”! Welcome to the second (March) issue of Blue Smoke, a new monthly newsletter shining a spotlight on senior appointments at the United Nations. When will the most senior leadership positions at the UN next be contested? For what …
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- The Blue Smoke Team
- • February 12, 2023
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“It would be useless to suggest a non-American” Welcome to our first issue of Blue Smoke, a new monthly newsletter that will shine a spotlight on senior appointments at the United Nations. This edition’s title is a quote from a …
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Blue Smoke is an initiative led by the United Nations Association – UK, Plataforma CIPÓ and a consultant at Strategy for Humanity to promote greater accountability and transparency within the United Nations, especially with regards to elections and appointments to senior positions within the organisation.
The Blue Smoke project conducts research, advocacy and communications activities to achieve its goal of ensuring that appointments to senior roles at the UN are inclusive, democratic, merit-based, transparent, and subject to scrutiny. This is essential for the credibility and effectiveness of UN leaders, and by extension, the UN.
Blue Smoke also calls attention to the inequalities that persist across leadership positions to ensure that qualified candidates are not excluded from consideration based on nationality, gender, or race.
The Blue Smoke newsletter is a joint project coordinated by the Blue Smoke project and delivered in media partnership with PassBlue
Visit the Blue Smoke website to find out more.
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