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.

UN Report on Oct. 7 Sexual Violence Disproves Israeli Contentions While Confirming Others

Dawn Clancy
• March 6, 2024

The United Nations said it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israeli women were subjected to sexual violence, including rape, gang rape and “sexualized torture,” across “several locations” on Oct. 7 during the attack by Hamas in southern Israel. The …

Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Ukraine Warns the World: It’s Now or Never for Prosecuting Putin

Dawn Clancy
• February 21, 2024

As the United Nations marks the second year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine this week, big-power politics are still blocking the creation of an international special tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression by Russia’s top leaders for their …

Categories: General Assembly, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War

Gaza Is Cleaning Up Its Piles of Garbage From the War, Including Human Waste

Dawn Clancy
• January 23, 2024

Bombs, bullets and the suffocating weight of bodies trapped under slabs of fallen concrete where houses once stood are just a few reasons the death toll in Gaza is still soaring. But recently, contaminated water paired with an overwhelmed sanitation …

Categories: Health and Population, Humanitarian Aid, Israeli-Palestinian conflict

UN Envoy on Sexual Violence in Conflict to Visit Israel

Dawn Clancy
• January 9, 2024

Pramila Patten, the United Nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict, is reportedly going to Israel at the end of January. She was invited by the government to visit the country more than a month ago to hear first-hand …

Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice

Ukraine Is Courting the Mideast and Africa in Spite of Russia’s Shadow

Dawn Clancy
• December 14, 2023

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fallen from major headlines — overtaken by the Israel/Hamas bloodbath in Gaza — but Ukrainian officials are shuttling across the globe to remind the world that their country is still at war and that peace …

Categories: Africa, Middle East, Ukraine-Russia War

Latvia, a Neighbor of Russia, Wants to Join the UN Security Council to Strengthen Its Influence

Dawn Clancy
• December 4, 2023

As the threat of aggression haunts formerly occupied Baltic states that share a border with Russia and the war in Ukraine grinds toward its grim two-year anniversary, one country is trying to increase its influence at the United Nations by …

Categories: International Justice, LGBT, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War

UN Women, Caving to Pressure, Condemns Hamas and Calls for Investigating Alleged Sex Abuse

Dawn Clancy
• December 3, 2023

Sima Bahous, the head of UN Women since 2021 and a former Jordanian envoy to the United Nations, faced intensifying criticism for not declaring Hamas a terrorist group since its Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel. CATIANNE TIJERINA/UN WOMEN …

Categories: Gender Violence, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council

Volunteer Doctors Went to Rebel-Held Northwest Syria to Help Save Lives. Then the Bombs Started.

Dawn Clancy
• October 31, 2023

IDLIB, Syria — In early October, a suicide drone ripped through a graduation ceremony at a military academy in Homs, Syria, killing and injuring dozens of civilians and cadets while delivering an equally devastating blow to the psyche of the …

Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security

TOPIC: WOMEN

Why Are Women Still Excluded From Peace Talks?

Dawn Clancy
• October 26, 2023

Every year, women’s equal roles in peace talks are highlighted in October at the United Nations. This time, the women, peace and security agenda, as it’s known, got attention outside the UN, near the steps to its main entrance on …

Categories: Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women

UNGA78

Special Report: Zelensky, Blinken and Lavrov Appear in the Security Council; Nigeria and Algeria

Dawn Clancy and Damilola Banjo
• September 20, 2023

His Peace Plan Will Save Both Ukraine and the UN, Zelensky Says — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine promoted his 10-point peace formula to the United Nations Security Council, meant to end Russia’s war in his country. Among the points …

Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78

UNGA78

Special Report: US and Ukraine; Türkiye and South Africa; Brazil and Cuba; UNGA Analysis

Dawn Clancy and Maurizio Guerrero
• September 19, 2023

[…] longer,” he said. In his speech, on Sept. 19, Biden straddled a range of foreign policy and global issues, including reducing the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, reforming global financial institutions to better serve developing countries and …

Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Latin America, SDGs, Secretary-General, UNGA78

The UN Is Still Doing Business With Russia, Is That O.K.?

Dawn Clancy
• August 24, 2023

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has not discouraged the United Nations from buying millions of dollars of goods and services from Moscow, according to the latest annual statistical report on UN procurement, published in July. In 2022, UN purchases from …

Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War

Russia, Türkiye and Qatar May Be Considering a Deal to Send Russian Grain to African ‘Countries in Need’

Dawn Clancy
• July 21, 2023

Russia, Türkiye and Qatar may be ready to discuss a draft agreement to export Russian agricultural products to countries most vulnerable to the threat of famine, according to a tripartite document allegedly being considered by the governments. The deal, which …

Categories: Africa, Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War

At Long Last, the UN Votes to Create a System to Find the Fate of Missing Syrians in the War

Dawn Clancy
• June 29, 2023

Syrians who have spent years agonizing over the whereabouts of their jailed or disappeared relatives are one crucial step closer to clarifying the fate and whereabouts of their missing loved ones, as the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution …

Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, Middle East

The Divide Hardens on What a Special Court for the Crime of Aggression by Russia Should Look Like

Dawn Clancy
• May 23, 2023

TALLINN, Estonia –– Efforts to create a special tribunal to try Russian leaders for the crime of aggression in Ukraine is exposing a deepening divide between the Group of 7 countries and their European allies over how to hold …