Amy Lieberman
Amy Lieberman is a freelance journalist based in New York City. She reports mostly on UN headquarters news when she is not working abroad. In the last several years, she has reported from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nepal and Thailand. Lieberman is a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. For more information, go to www.amydlieberman.com
- Amy Lieberman
- • September 5, 2013
As most people know, the United Nations headquarters rests on a prime slice of New York City real estate along the East River, stretching from East 42nd to East 48th Streets on First Avenue. The UN agreed to adopt…
- Categories: General Assembly, US-UN Relations
- Amy Lieberman
- • March 25, 2013
The $100- to $120-billion international arms trade in 2012 intensified the internal conflicts in Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo but also brought guns into homes in these countries, where men turned them against women. That…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Peace and Security, Women
- Amy Lieberman
- • March 14, 2013
The United Nations Security Council bases its resolutions on agenda items as varied as the renewal of a peacekeeping force mandate in Haiti to responding to a missile launching in North Korea. With resolutions’ language often dense legalese that…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council, US-UN Relations
- Amy Lieberman
- • December 14, 2012
This year, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has so far appointed 55 people to high-level positions. Twelve of the appointees, nearly 22 percent, are women, filling roles like the special representative for children and armed conflict and the executive…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Women
- Amy Lieberman
- • November 14, 2012
Latin America and the Caribbean have always faced the threat of hurricane intensely, but with new weather extremes related to climate change occurring amid growing urban populations, the lethal mix is bound to cause more damage and deaths…
- Categories: Climate Change
- Amy Lieberman
- • October 12, 2012
A growing movement within the United Nations to ban female genital mutilation globally has led to the first resolution to be written on the issue in the General Assembly’s Third Committee, which will vote on the matter this…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Women
- Amy Lieberman
- • August 7, 2012
BOGOTÁ – Jesús Martínez has money on his mind: his monthly budget of $250, his $75 rent and the $7,500 he will soon receive from the government. Eighteen-year-old Martínez, which is not his real name, never touched a…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Security Council
- Amy Lieberman
- • June 28, 2012
BOGOTÁ — Two longstanding Colombian armed groups are cited in the United Nations secretary-general’s annual “list of shame” released this month, enumerating parties who use children in armed conflict, among other related human-rights abuses. The country’s two major antigovernment guerrilla…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Human Rights, Security Council
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