Dawn Clancy

Dawn Clancy is a New York City based reporter who focuses on women's issues, international conflict and diplomacy. She holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, she has written for The Washington Post and HuffPost.

The UN Development Program Has 4 New Projects Funded by Russia, Despite Its Illegal War on Ukraine

Dawn Clancy

• June 22, 2022

In the waning days of 2021, roughly two months before its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russia agreed to contribute $14 million to the United Nations Development Program for climate-related projects in Europe and Central Asia to begin this year. In fact, an agreement between Russia and the UN agency on one project, …

Development, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Agencies

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Russia’s Powerful Perch at the UN Is Crumbling

Dawn Clancy

• May 16, 2022

In October, the United States and Russia will square off in a high-stakes election to decide who will be the next secretary-general of the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU) — helping to determine the future of Internet communications for five billion users worldwide. The Geneva-based ITU develops standards and practices that make possible …

Peace and Security, Security Council

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Ukraine’s UN Envoy on Russia’s War and the Significance of ‘Swan Lake’

Dawn Clancy

• April 11, 2022

When he needs to unwind amid Russia’s disastrous invasion of his country, Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, takes long bike rides in Manhattan with his dog, Dezi (Dez, for short), a sprightly Jack Russell terrier. Her name is a riff on the title of Max Ehrmann’s poem “Desiderata,” which means something …

Peace and Security, Refugees, Security Council

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Who Is Putin the ‘Butcher’? The Enigma Around Him Persists

Dawn Clancy

• March 29, 2022

Vladimir Putin could be likened to a Rubik’s cube, a puzzle of a man who remains impossible to fully solve. As he unleashed his “special military operation” five weeks ago, to “de-Nazify” and “demilitarize” Ukraine, President Putin remains an enigma. While each day of his war against his Western neighbor leaves mounting casualties, piles …

Peace and Security

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Could Belarus, a ‘100% Pariah Now,’ Lose Its Bid for a UN Security Council Seat?

Dawn Clancy

• March 4, 2022

Is Belarus’s current bid for a United Nations Security Council seat in serious trouble? Shortly after Russian missiles began ripping through the pre-dawn skies over Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, and Kharkiv, an industrial city near the Russian border, a military convoy carrying Russian troops crossed into Ukraine from southern Belarus, marking when the territory of …

Peace and Security, Security Council

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In the Middle of an Emergency UN Session on Ukraine, Russia Declares War

Dawn Clancy

• February 24, 2022

As the 15 ambassadors in the United Nations Security Council hurried late Wednesday night into the chamber to meet for an emergency session on Ukraine — and most of them calling for a de-escalation of tensions — President Vladimir Putin, eight time zones away, declared war, authorizing a “special military operation” in the country. …

Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, US Foreign Relations

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Vietnam’s UN Envoy on Reasons to Forgive but Not to Forget

Dawn Clancy

• February 8, 2022

On days when the sky in Dang Xa, a village in North Vietnam, was a crisp shade of blue, 7-year-old Dang Dinh Quy would climb to the top of a tree to watch the United States bomber planes dodge the surface-to-air missiles bursting from the ground below. Dang is Vietnam’s ambassador to the United …

Asia, Peace and Security, Security Council

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Russia and US Trade Jabs in the UN Security Council Over the Fate of Ukraine

Dawn Clancy

• January 31, 2022

The United States and Russia publicly aired their stances and concerns over the Ukraine crisis in a United Nations Security Council meeting, with the US calling Russia’s military buildup on Ukraine’s borders a “clear and consequential threat to peace and security” and Russia accusing the US of engaging in “megaphone diplomacy” meant to “whip …

Peace and Security, Security Council

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Sexism and Violence Against Women MPs in Africa Is Pervasive, a New Report Reveals

Dawn Clancy

• January 5, 2022

After four hours of torture, Flora Igoki Terah arrived at Nairobi Women’s Hospital on Sept. 7, 2007, with smashed bones, a shaven head and clumps of human feces jammed in her throat. Months before the attack, Terah’s torturers sent her many warnings, demanding that she withdraw her candidacy for a parliamentary seat in Kenya’s …