Alice Volkov
Alice Volkov has a master's degree from the Graduate School of International Affairs at Australian National University in Canberra. She wrote her thesis on the Responsibility to Protect doctrine and the intervention in Libya in 2011. Recently, she was an intern with the South Asian Human Rights Documentation Center in New Delhi. Her areas of interest also include strategies for preventing mass atrocity crimes; international development practices relating to the governance sector; and criminal justice reform. Volkov received a bachelor's degree, with honors, in history from the University of Melbourne.
- Alice Volkov
- • January 23, 2013
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Mike Smith, the executive director of the Security Council’s Counterterrorism Committee Executive Directorate, is to be reappointed to a six-month term through June as a search for his successor begins, he confirmed with PassBlue. Smith would not say whether…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, Security Council
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- Alice Volkov
- • December 20, 2012
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The United Nation’s internal report on its role during the final stages of the prolonged civil war in Sri Lanka was unusually critical of the Secretariat and highlighted major shortcomings in the UN’s response to the fighting. The report,…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Responsibility to Protect, Secretary-General
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- Alice Volkov
- • December 6, 2012
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Not many people can honestly say they have heard of the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, but at the United Nations road safety is one more topic on its long, long agenda. When the day…
- Categories: General Assembly, Health and Population
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- Alice Volkov
- • November 30, 2012
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The General Assembly voted to elevate the Palestinian territories‘ status at the United Nations to nonmember observer state from nonmember observer entity, which it has held since 1974. The vote, occurring late afternoon on Nov. 29 in a packed…
- Categories: General Assembly, Middle East, US-UN Relations
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- Alice Volkov
- • November 13, 2012
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Eighteen members were elected by the United Nations General Assembly to the Human Rights Council on Nov. 12. The members, serving three-year terms beginning Jan. 1, join 29 other countries on the council. Of the 18 new members, only…
- Categories: Human Rights
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