Barbara Crossette
Barbara Crossette is the senior consulting editor and writer for PassBlue and the United Nations correspondent for The Nation. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has also contributed to the Oxford Handbook on the United Nations.
Previously, Crossette was the UN bureau chief for The New York Times from 1994 to 2001 and previously its chief correspondent in Southeast Asia and South Asia. She is the author of "So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas," "The Great Hill Stations of Asia" and a Foreign Policy Association study, "India Changes Course," in the Foreign Policy Association's "Great Decisions 2015."
Crossette won the George Polk award for her coverage in India of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and the 2010 Shorenstein Prize for her writing on Asia.
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 2, 2020
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With five months to go before India takes its elected seat on the Security Council for 2021-2022, the country’s foreign minister says it will stay true to its founding tradition of nonalignment and not take sides with any big…
- Categories: India, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 20, 2020
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In an extraordinary report that defies reality, the Trump administration is extolling United States’ global leadership in human rights and accusing its critics of threatening democracy. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who created the US Commission on Unalienable Rights…
- Categories: Human Rights, US Foreign Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 6, 2020
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Across the world, the rise of nationalist leaders has prompted fears that democracy and international cooperation are endangered. Now the public health systems of many countries are also being menaced by the politics of authoritarianism in the Covid-19 pandemic…
- Categories: Covid-19
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 30, 2020
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Deep uncertainty and unease are descending across the United States just as Americans are preparing to celebrate their most important “political” holiday, Independence Day, on July 4. Contrary to what Trump administration officials are proclaiming, the US is not…
- Categories: Covid-19, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 18, 2020
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There are about two billion young children in the world today, ranging from infancy to 14 years old, and most of them live in developing nations in the global south. That is also where the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading the…
- Categories: Covid-19, Development, Education, Secretary-General
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 10, 2020
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With Joseph Biden taking an unassailable lead by June 7 as the Democratic Party’s choice for president of the United States, many Americans foresee a desperate, ugly political campaign for re-election by Donald Trump coming. The magnitude of his…
- Categories: Covid-19, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 29, 2020
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Two weeks after President Trump fired off a characteristically intemperate letter to the director-general of the World Health Organization, accusing him of incompetence in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis, the reputation of the agency has been damaged far less than…
- Categories: Covid-19, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 26, 2020
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The world of diplomacy has toyed with the concept of feminist foreign policies for years, raising some support and not a few snickers from dissenters. A new campaign led by women with strong professional qualifications and global experience in…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 11, 2020
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Far from United Nations headquarters in New York and its offices in other cities around the world, many thousands of UN staff members are adjusting to new, more disturbing and dangerous realities in the era of Covid-19. Daily life…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 16, 2020
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Something is missing from the statistical charts and maps of Covid-19 in East Asia: credible data on the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea. The country, North Korea as it is commonly known, has always been a singularly secretive state…
- Categories: Asia, Covid-19, Health and Population
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 6, 2020
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For many women worldwide, the fear and suffering caused by the catastrophic viral pandemic is made even more unbearable and frightening by gender violence, as orders to “stay at home” heighten domestic tensions. Reports are accumulating from virtually every…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, Health and Population
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 3, 2020
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UN Women is postponing two long-planned international meetings designed to give civil society groups a leading role in advancing gender rights 25 years after a landmark 1995 Beijing conference on women. The two sessions of the Global Equality Forum that…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 29, 2020
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Another highlight of the year marking the 25th anniversary of a breakthrough international conference in Beijing on women’s rights has fallen victim to the global march of the new coronavirus, Covid-19. The event is the first of two global…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population, Latin America
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 22, 2020
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Jeffrey Laurenti, an American writer who specializes on the United Nations and international affairs, is a contributor to PassBlue. He was in Italy in early March when a cascade of travel restrictions were enacted in Europe and the United…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 20, 2020
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Many African governments, often insisting that all cases of coronavirus were imported from outside the continent by travelers, are now grappling with evidence of local community transmissions for the first time, according to a March 18 report from the World Health…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, Health and Population
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